The International Olympic Committee has frozen planning for the boxing tournament at Tokyo 2020 and started a process that could see it completely cut ties with the International Boxing Association (AIBA).

Seventeen Irish sporting organisations received welcome news yesterday with the announcement that Sport Ireland’s board approved an additional €1.5 million in high-performance funding.

The head of Russia's Olympic Committee claims their Olympic ban has been lifted.

When Colm Cronin hopped, skipped and jumped 15.89 meters on June 26th 1977, little did the Leevale man realise his Irish triple jump record would remain peerless some 40 years later.

Great expectations would have hindered Annalise Murphy as the sailor left for Rio, of that she is now certain.

The organisers of the 2020 Olympic Games, which will be hosted in Tokyo, are considering using recycled electronics to create the medals for the event.

The good vibes from Rio 2016's vibrant opening ceremony did not take long to fade this morning as reports emerged of athletes getting lost, fans stuck in queues and a fatal shooting witnessed by international film crews.

Having spent last week giving out about the poor trade in the mart for light store cattle, this week found me at the mart selling light store cattle.

"Every story has a beginning. This is mine."

APART, perhaps, from in the Kremlin in Moscow, few tears will be shed at the decision of the world athletics governing body to maintain its doping ban on all Russian athletes competing anywhere, including at the Rio Olympics.

Having not competed at the top level since last year, Greg Broderick and MHS Going Global laid down a late marker for Olympic selection yesterday, producing a double clear to help Ireland win the Furusiyya Series nations cup in a rain-soaked St Gallen, Switzerland.

WHEN runner Sergiu Ciobanu landed in Ireland 10 years ago at the age of 22 he didn’t even know what language the people spoke. 

Olympic Council of Ireland boss Pat Hickey believes Nike may have missed a golden opportunity to sponsor Rory McIlroy’s bid for a gold medal in Rio.

For the second time inside 11 months, Dean Walsh and Ray Moylette will clash in the standout bout at the finals of the National Elite Championships, but there is more on the line than national pride tonight (live on TG4 from 7.30pm).

While Ireland’s men are still riding high on the back of Olympic qualification, the same can’t be said of South Africa.

Oscar Pistorius’ agent is seeking a meeting with the double-amputee athlete in prison in the next few days to discuss his running future.

They may have finished out of the medals but two Irish golfers helped make golfing history over the past two weeks as the sport made its first appearance in an Olympic event for 110 years.

Pádraig Harrington rates the newly-formed Confederation of Golf in Ireland (CGI) as crucial for the future of Irish golf.

Criminal gangs have targeted members of the Irish Olympic rowing team, stealing outboard engines from support boats and attempting to sell them abroad.

Saudi authorities have been asked to consider lifting a state school ban on sports for girls, according to the official SPA news agency.

The International Olympic Committee has been urged by a coalition of human and gay rights groups not to award future Games to nations which have discriminatory laws.

Declan Geraghty advanced from his all-Crumlin BC lightweight clash with Francis Campbell in the opening bout of the National Elite Championships last night-

I HAVE a theory.

You don't even have to like ice skating. Or Riverdance, for that matter. But this is deadly.

The International Olympic Committee has dismissed concerns over Russia's anti-gay laws, saying they don't violate the Olympic charter.

Outgoing president Jacques Rogge has conceded the International Olympic Committee can do little to influence Russia’s anti-gay laws ahead of the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi.

Protests in Istanbul and several other Turkish cities appear to have subsided, after days of fierce clashes following a police crackdown on a peaceful gathering.

The International Olympic Committee’s executive board has agreed that wrestling, squash and baseball/softball will be on a shortlist of sports to be considered for inclusion in the sports programme for the 2020 Olympic Games.

Even among all the Olympians and multiple champions one man stood out at this year’s Elite Boxing Championships in the National Stadium — Wexford’s Adam Nolan.

The sports pundit who said that the Irish Olympic team should compete for Great Britain has made another Ireland-related gaffe.

This year’s Elite national boxing championships are only at semi-final stage but already we know that five titles will change hands this year.

Drama and disappointment at the opening weekend of the Elite National Boxing Championships at the National Stadium last night, three more champions losing their titles even before a punch was thrown.

A man who got into the Olympic Stadium without a ticket then threw a beer bottle at competitors lining up for the men’s 100m final has been found guilty of public disorder.

A man screamed abuse at Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt before hurling a bottle at the start line of the men’s Olympic 100m final, a British court heard today.

The Irish 2012 Olympic team and Katie Taylor scooped the top accolades at the Irish Amateur Boxing Association’s Annual Awards Night at the Green Isle Hotel in Dublin last night.