Mike RowbottomChief Feature Writer Follow @mikerowbo Mike Rowbottom, one of Britain's most talented sportswriters, covered the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympics and Paralympics as chief feature writer for insidethegames, having covered the previous five summer Games, and four winter Games, for The Independent. He has worked for the Daily Mail, The Times, The Observer, The Sunday Correspondent and The Guardian.
Recent articles by Mike The State Football Centre in Western Australia will be expanded as part of a AUD$9.3 million (£4.8 million/$5.9 million/€5.6 million) legacy fund following the region’s staging of this year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup.
Italy’s Bianca Seregni added another gold in this season’s final World Triathlon Cup as she earned victory at the Hititsuba beach venue in Miyazaki.
Mikaela Shiffrin, starting an Alpine Skiing World Cup season in which she will seek to equal the record of six overall women’s titles, had to settle for sixth place in the opening giant slalom event at the Austrian resort of Sölden.
Tributes have poured in at home and abroad for Russia’s double Olympic biathlon champion Viktor Mamatov, who has died aged 86.
Chile, currently hosting the Pan American Games in Santiago, will apply for the 2027 Special Olympics World Summer Games as a first step towards a possible staging of the Summer Olympics, its President Gabriel Boric has said.
Pretoria will host the men’s and women’s African Olympic hockey qualifier for Paris 2024 which is due to start tomorrow and conclude November 5, with an automatic place on offer to the winners.
Confirmation that the Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix will not take place next year due to financial factors has come with the announcement of the World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold 2024 calendar.
The new men’s and women’s global calendar being adopted by the World Rugby Council, incorporating for the first time at elite level international player welfare guidelines, needs "further improvement" according to International Rugby Players (IRP).
The International Testing Agency (ITA) has launched its global Pre-Games anti-doping programme ahead of next year's Olympics and Paralympic in Paris which will involve new levels of targeted testing based on data from the pre-Tokyo 2020 operation.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has led tributes to Niels Holst-Sørensen, a member of the organisation from 1977 until 2002.
New Zealand’s Dame Valerie Adams, a double Olympic and four-times world champion in the shot put, has been elected as World Athletics Athletes’ Commission chair following the first meeting of its membership this week.
Mikaela Shiffrin may have set an all-time career record of 88 Alpine Skiing World Cup wins last season but she will start the new campaign at the Austrian resort of Sölden tomorrow, with yet another record in mind.
Giovanni Malagò, President of Milan Cortina 2026, has angrily blamed the Winter Olympics' body responsible for overseeing venue readiness, Società Infrastrutture Milano Cortina 2026 (SIMICO), for the crisis over the location of the sliding centre.
French electronic duo Daft Punk have confirmed they will not consider reforming to perform at the Opening Ceremony of next year's Olympic Games in Paris.
Parisian public hospitals will have higher than normal staffing levels due to the Olympics and Paralympics with around 750 additional medical and paramedical professionals compared to a normal summer due to be deployed.
