Remember back in April at the SportAccord Convention when Marius Vizer had made himself the Olympic Movement's number one enemy following his explosive speech criticising Thomas Bach, who was it that was in the vanguard opposing this dangerous mutineer? It was Lamine Diack, then still the President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).

Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland has thrown his support behind the sport’s bid to be included at the Olympic Games, though he has warned any plans may prove difficult as “dealing with the nuances of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) can be challenging”.

You can guarantee that following the conclusion of every major sporting event, one of the organisers will declare it as “the best-ever”.

Los Angeles were the only bidders for the 1984 Summer Olympics following the withdrawal of Tehran before the final selection in 1978. Los Angeles had unsuccessfully bid for the two previous Summer Olympics, in 1976 and 1980, awarded to Montreal and Moscow respectively. The United States Olympic Committee had at least one bid for every Olympics since 1944, but had not succeeded since the Los Angeles Olympics in 1932, the previous time there had been a single city in the race. Los Angeles is bidding to host the 2024 Olympics and will follow London as the only city to stage them three times if they are successful when the International Olympic Committee votes at its Session in Lima in 2017. 

A crucial public referendum into whether Hamburg should stage the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games has got underway in the German city after ballot papers were distributed to residents.

Two-times skeleton Olympian and International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Adam Pengilly has been named as Chef de Mission for the British team at next year's Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lillehammer.

Like fetid fumes, bad news continues to emanate from the citadels of power in world sport - with the seemingly endless fug of the FIFA investigation now casting itself over the shoulders of the great Franz Beckenbauer, and the International Association of Athletics Federations’ ex-President Lamine Diack newly announced as being under investigation by French police and the International Olympic Committee’s Ethics Commission following allegations of corruption.

Michael Hershman, founder of Transparency International and a former FIFA Independent Governance Committee (IGC) member, has heavily criticised the work of football's world governing body's Reform Commission, which he believes is a "waste of time and money".

Women being banned from watching volleyball matches in Iran is "ridiculous", according to former United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who believes sport can be a major platform to drive forward gender equality.

The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) has had several offers from countries willing to house its headquarters - should the current political crisis force them out of Kuwait, they have claimed. 

Former International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President Lamine Diack has been placed under investigation in France over an alleged doping cover up.

FIFA Reform Committee chair François Carrard has claimed solving problems within football's world governing body will be harder than addressing similar issues within the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in the late 1990s due to the need to pacify 209 contrasting National Associations.

Directly carrying out drug-testing would be a "natural extension" of the World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) remit, founding President Richard Pound believes, although he claims an independent body such as that proposed at last month's Olympic Summit would require a substantial funding increase.

International Sport Shooting Federation (ISSF) President Olegario Vazquez Raña has vowed to find an alternative location to host an Asian Qualifying Competition for Rio 2016 after an event in Kuwait was stripped of its status by the International Olympic Committee. 

National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan President Timur Kulibayev has continued to raise the profile of his country within the sports world following a meeting with International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach here.