October 1 - Barbara Ann Scott, the only Canadian women to win a figure skating gold medal at the Winter Olympics, has died at the age of 84.
October 1 - The teams have now been confirmed for curling's 2013 World Financial Group Continental Cup.
September 30 - British Bobsleigh has announced its team selections for the upcoming FIBT (Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing) competition season.
September 28 - Bryn Vaile, who guided British Skeleton to a position as the UK's most successful winter Olympic sport over the last decade, is to take on a new role within the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (FIBT) as Advisor on Special Projects.
September 27 - British short track speed skater Elise Christie, included in the team which will open its 2012-2013 season at the Invitation Cup in Heerenveen, Netherlands this weekend, will seek to match her achievement at last year's meeting on the Dutch rink, when she finished first in the overall classification after winning the 1000 and 1500 metres events.
September 26 - Rene Fasel was re-elected by acclamation as the President of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) after no-one stood against him at the sport's General Congress in Tokyo today.
September 25 - Shelley Rudman, skeleton silver medallist at the Turin 2006 Winter Olympics, has signalled her intention to seek another medal at the Sochi 2014 Games.
September 20 - Simon Carty, the British bobsleigher, has been banned for two years following a failed drugs test.
September 7 - Britain's James Woods today won the first Olympic qualifying event for slopestyle, which is due to make its debut at Sochi in 2014.
July 7 - Olympic figure skating champion Kim Yu-Na will retire from her sport after Sochi 2014, she has announced.
June 23 - Rick Bower, the United States snowboarding halfpipe coach, has been named by the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) as the 2011 Olympic Coach of the Year at a special reception during the 2012 National Coaching Conference at the NCAA Hall of Champions in Indianapolis.
June 11 - Boston will host the United States Figure Skating Championships in 2014, the country's qualifying event for the Sochi Winter Olympics.
May 25 - The official course for the Sprint Québec 2012 Cross Country World Cup has been unveiled by the President of the International Ski Federation (FIS), Gian-Franco Kasper.
May 21 - Russia's victorious ice hockey team – feted by proud President Vladimir Putin – have returned home after winning the IIHF world title with a 6-2 victory over Slovakia in Helsinki.
May 16 – Having ensured their place at the last eight of the World Championships and a place at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, Canada are now setting their sights on a first win at the competition since 2007.
Denver were awarded the 1976 Winter Olympic Games ahead of Sion in Switzerland, Tempere in Finland and Vancouver in Canada at the International Olympic Committee Session in 1970. But in a Colorado referendum in November 1972, voters rejected funding for the event. It is the only time a city has been awarded the Olympics but pulled out. The IOC then offered the Games to Whistler in Canada, but they too declined owing to a change of Government following elections. Salt Lake City offered to host the Games, but the IOC, still reeling from the Denver rejection, declined and selected Innsbruck, the 1964 host city, as a replacement.
Commonwealth Games Federation - Sport Manager - London, United Kingdom
The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) is the international governing body that oversees the quadrennial Commonwealth Games and Commonwealth Youth Games. The CGF is a small passionate team, wholeheartedly committed to its vision, mission and values. Based in our central London headquarters and reporting to the CGF’s Sports Director, this role will play a key role within the team, providing operational and strategic support across all areas of the sport programme, including bespoke projects and events.
At the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896, Spyridon Louis won the marathon to become an instant Greek hero. Mike Rowbottom tells the story of how a humble water carrier entered sporting folklore, 125 years on.
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