A petition urging Olympic sponsors to take a stand against women discrimination continues the fight for inclusion of a women’s ski jump event on the programme at the Vancouver 2010 Games.

When the torch passes through Canada's aboriginal communities it won't shed any light on the poverty that keeps their children from the Olympic dream

A new book by Russian historian Yuri Felshtinsky alleges that former IOC President, Juan Antonio Samaranch, was a member of the Soviet Union’s infamous spy network, the KGB. German journalist Jens Weinreich, an expert in sports politics, takes a look at the evidence for Play the Game.

The 14 female ski jumpers fighting to be allowed to compete at the Winter Games 2010 next February in Vancouver went to court yesterday to continue their battle.

Unbalanced budgets and a lack of sponsors have had the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee fearing for the success of the Vancouver Games, but a 20 million dollar guarantee from the IOC is said to have secured the 2010 Winter Games.

The next four years will show to which extent Rogge will succeed in becoming the great reformer of the Olympic movement that he was expected to when he took office in 2001.

Rugby sevens looks set to get the rubber stamp from the IOC to appear at the 2016 Summer Olympics. But while many rugby supporters are enthusiastic about the decision, structural problems within the the International Rugby Board still must be addressed by the IOC argues ex-Fijian Rugby official Charlie Charters.

Despite discussions of whether the process of election of the new Olympic sports have been sufficiently transparent, rugby and golf were elected as the two newcomers to join the existing 26 Olympic sports by 2016.