During SportAccord’s General Assembly in St. Petersburg, Russia on Friday, Austrian Marius Vizer was elected to take over from Hein Verbruggen as President of SportAccord, the umbrella organisation for all Olympic and non-Olympic international sports organisations.

Play the Game 2013 has extended the deadline for submitting grant applications to 27 June 2013.

Unedited version of the speech by Chris Eaton, director for sport integrity at the International Center for Sports Security, delivered at the MINEPS V Conference in Berlin, Germany, on 30 May 2013.

Age limit and term of office, two of the key points in the FIFA reform decree to be signed during this week’s FIFA congress have been postponed and will not be voted on this year.

A new report from the Danish Institute for Sports Studies on sports participation in Denmark shows a steady growth in the participation rate for both adults and children.

After what is surely the longest wait of any country that has actually applied to join one of FIFA’s six confederations, the Gibraltar Football Association were today - 14 years after first applying – accepted into UEFA.

The International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Founding Working Group (FWG) on the fight against irregular and illegal betting concluded its fourth meeting earlier this month with recommendations to set up a global monitoring system like the one used during the 2012 London Games.

Amidst accusations of financial mismanagement, Hungarian Tamás Aján was re-elected president of the International Weightlifting Federation during this week’s IWF congress in Moscow, Russia.