Play the Game and the Danish Institute for Sports Studies can now reveal the title and themes for this year’s Play the Game conference, taking place in Aarhus, Denmark from 28-31 October 2013.

After having fought a long and futile legal battle to get to compete at the Vancouver Games in 2010, Women Ski Jumpers can look forward to being on the programme in Sochi 2014 when the IOC yesterday added Women’s ski jumping and 5 other sports to the next Winter Games.

Businessman Valery Morozov is convinced that systematic corruption exists in Russian sports. Now he fears for his life.

At the NATO summit this weekend, the alliance decided to enter into closer cooperation with Russia and launched 2014 as the year of withdrawal from Afghanistan. 2014 is not any year for Russia; this is the year when the Russian Federation will host the Winter Olympics for the first time. Security is going to be a hot topic in the Olympics. It might therefore be convenient to have a good relationship with NATO.

The International Olympic Committee is "on most accounts very satisfied" with Russian preparations for the 2014 Winter Games in its first inspection of Sochi's preparations since Vancouver passed the torch in February.

The Olympic and Paralympic flags have been raised over Sochi this week, with the third visit from the International Olympic Committee (IOC)’s Coordination Commission.

President Dmitry Medvedev is demanding changes within the Russian Olympic Committee following the nation's lowest ever medals haul at a Winter Games.