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The Rio 2016 organising committee for the Olympic Games has appealed against a Brazilian judge’s ruling that spectators can display political banners inside venues during the ongoing event.

Four more athletes have been retrospectively disqualified from previous editions of the summer Olympic Games after doping retests by the International Olympic Committee identified banned substances.

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach has said the organisation will continue to push for a rule that would stop former doping cheats from competing at future Olympic Games, and has again defended the IOC’s stance on Russian athletes at Rio 2016.

Brazilian police announced yesterday that they had detained two people from sports hospitality company THG Sports on charges of fraudulent marketing of tickets for the Rio Olympics.

Carlos Nuzman, the head of Rio 2016, has insisted that “Rio will rise to the occasion” by overcoming the swathe of negative headlines that have clouded the build-up to the opening ceremony of the summer Olympic Games tonight (Friday).

Decisions on the eligibility of Russian athletes for the upcoming summer Olympic Games were announced by a host of International Federations (IFs) today (Thursday).

The International Olympic Committee has confirmed that baseball/softball, karate, skateboarding, sport climbing and surfing will be added to the programme for the Tokyo 2020 summer Olympic Games.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today (Tuesday) received almost unanimous backing from its membership for its stance on the Russian doping scandal, with president Thomas Bach speaking out against the “nuclear option” of imposing a total ban on Russia at the forthcoming summer Games in Rio de Janeiro.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) has defended the timing of the publication of Professor Richard McLaren’s report into doping in Russia.

Angela Ruggiero has been elected as the new chair of the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Athletes’ Commission.

A two-year window of opportunity presented by hosting sport’s two biggest events in quick succession has turned into a damage limitation exercise for Brazil. SportBusiness International assesses the political and economic turmoil that has accompanied the build-up to this month’s Rio Olympics.

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has become the second International Federation (IF) to apply a blanket ban on Russian athletes competing at the forthcoming summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, as International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach sought to defend its decision not to exclude Russia’s entire team.

Kevin Roberts argues that the greater good of the Olympic Games would have been best served by a blanket exclusion of Russian athletes at Rio 2016. 

The turmoil of 2016 was difficult to envisage when Rio upset the odds to land hosting rights to this summer’s Olympic Games.

Tokyo 2020 has stated that costs are increasing steeply for its preparations for the summer Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The International Luge Federation (FIL) has unveiled the calendar for its 2016-17 World Cup season, with the track being developed for PyeongChang’s staging of the 2018 winter Olympic Games set to host an event for the first time.