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Justifying the Olympic spending by claiming that the Games in London will inspire more Britons to participate in sports may be plain wrong, reveals a new study.  “Give us our Ball Back:...[more]

Saudi women will be allowed to compete at the Olympics for the first time this summer in London, BBC reports. Human Rights Watch calls for broader reform in Saudi Arabia. According to a statement...[more]

Andrew Altman, the chief executive of the London Legacy Development Cooperation, will leave his job after the conclusion of the Olympic Games. He is thereby paying the price for failing to secure the...[more]

A number of National Olympic Committee (NOC) officials and agents from a range of countries have been caught allegedly attempting to sell tickets for the London Olympics on the black market. An...[more]

Business leaders are questioning the government’s promise that London 2012 will leave a great economic legacy and boost the British business environment. More than 75,000 firms that have been...[more]

The US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has brought formal doping charges against Lance Armstrong, Washington Post reveals. The seven-time Tour de France winner has been immediately banned from all...[more]

In a report released tuesday, Human Rights Watch finds that hundreds of thousands of migrant construction workers coming to Qatar to work on stadium and infrastructure projects for the 2022 World Cup...[more]

Ukraine’s National Olympic Committee (UNOC) faces corruption allegations regarding the selling of black market tickets for the London Olympics. The results of a corruption probe conducted by the...[more]

Poland’s third largest construction company and one of the Euro 2012 contractors, PBG, and two of its subsidiaries declared bankruptcy this Monday because of liquidity problems stemming from...[more]

A first draft of WADA’s revised anti-doping code has been published. A proposed rule change means that athletes caught doping will be excluded from the next Olympic event taking place after the end...[more]

Just as Jeffery Webb was elected the new president of CONCACAF at the football confederation’s congress in Budapest yesterday and the confederation hoped to enter a new era of integrity, new...[more]

The number of cities bidding for the 2020 Olympics was cut down from five to three when the IOC’s Executive Board at a meeting in Quebec yesterday voted to let only Madrid, Tokyo and Istanbul go on...[more]

Fenerbache chairman Aziz Yildirim was re-elected to the top post on Sunday, even though he is currently jailed in connection with a match-fixing scandal. Yildirim, one of the most prominent names in...[more]

The Council of the European Union encourages member states to place more emphasis on the fight against doping in the recreational sports sector. In a meeting of the Education, Youth, Culture and...[more]

While pressure is on FIFA to strengthen transparency and democracy in world football, the South American football confederation CONMEBOL goes in the opposite direction by appointing Nicolas Leoz...[more]