And now there could be four: Jérôme Champagne has joined the election for the FIFA presidency, joining a field that is expected to include the incumbent Sepp Blatter, UEFA president Michel Platini and possibly the CONCACAF president, Jeffrey Webb.

Former FIFA director of international relations, Jérôme Champagne, who left FIFA in 2010 today announced his run for FIFA presidency at a press conference in London.

Due to the International Olympic Committee’s suspension of India’s Olympic Association, Indian athletes will not be able to officially represent India during the Sochi Games next month.

The members who will constitute the independent committee set up to look into the problems that the International Union of Cycling (UCI) as well as the sport of cycling have been faced with in recent times have been released.

Comment: While the public demand for better governance in sport rings louder than ever, sports leaders are confronted with troubles inherited from the past

The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) yesterday agreed to amend its constitution after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) threatened to withdraw recognition of the body for failing to comply with the IOC’s rules for good governance.

Cricket is one of the fastest growing sports in the world, but according to a new report from Transparency International, the international governing body of cricket, the International Cricket Council (ICC) must act now and strengthen the governance of the sport in order to keep up to speed with these developments.

International sport is facing new power structures, but also a huge task in making sport and physical activity more inclusive. At the closing session of Play the Game 2013, four speakers mapped some of sport’s urgent challenges without reaching a clear consensus on how to assess and deal with them.