Colombia’s Chargé d'Affaires of the Embassy in Ghana has written to the organiser of last month’s first African Para Games in Accra to protest over unpaid bills for a website developed by a company in Bogotá.

Complaints have been filed to the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) by companies who have not been paid by organisers of the African Para Games.

It is with great sadness that we have learned of the passing today of our insidethegames colleague Alan Hubbard, who in a career of almost 70 years, crossed paths with anybody who mattered in the world of sport and celebrities from many other walks of life. 

A year ago today, insidethegames broke the biggest doping story in the Olympic Games since Ben Johnson at Seoul 1988, when we exclusively revealed that 15-year-old Kamila Valieva had tested positive for banned drugs and the gold medals won by the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) in the team skating event two days earlier could be stripped from them.

Timing is everything.

China paid the Global Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF) nearly $3 million (£2.5 million/€2.9 million) as compensation for them dropping plans to host the 2019 World Combat Games in Taiwan, insidethegames can exclusively reveal.

To mark my last day at insidethegames, I wrote down every trip I embarked on during my two-and-a-half years with the company.

insidethegames has topped a list of the most followed media organisations in sport for the fourth consecutive year.

insidethegames has topped a list of media most followed by Olympic Sports Federations on Twitter for the third year in a row.

insidethegames.biz has been shortlisted for two prizes at the prestigious British Sports Journalism Awards.

Voters on an insidethegames.biz poll have overwhelmingly ruled that e-sports should not be classed as a sport.

insidethegames reporter Daniel Etchells has been chosen for the Sambo Journalist of the Year award, it was announced in Moscow today.

insidethegames’ chief columnist David Owen and senior reporter Nick Butler have today been named among the nominees ahead of next month’s inaugural International Sports Press Association (AIPS) Sport Media Pearl Awards in Abu Dhabi.

There was praise for the The Academy as it wrapped up its successful first edition here today.