Rusty Goepel, a long time member of the Vancouver Organizing Committee's board of directors, was named on Wednesday to fill the vacant chairman's post for the 2010 Olympics.

China has already begun to throw the considerable weight of its state-run sports system behind the game of golf after it won a place at the 2016 Olympics last month.

BMW has signed up as the latest top-tier domestic sponsor of the 2012 London Olympics.

Henri Serandour, the former president of the French national Olympic committee (CNOSF), died on Thursday at the age of 72 after a long illness, it was announced here.

The Olympic flame traveled farther north than it has ever gone as it lit up the artic night sky in the northern outpost of Alert on Sunday.

Toronto, which failed twice in bids to land the summer Olympics, was selected to host the 2015 Pan American Games on Friday.

Queen Elizabeth II visited the Olympic Park on Tuesday to check on preparations for the 2012 London Games ─ and even inspected the finish line of the 100-meter dash.

The Olympic flame arrived in Canada on Friday, beginning a 45,000-km (28,000-mile) trek that will see it crisscross the country before it arrives at next year's Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

Sydney will host the opening round of next year's world championships after the venue which staged the first Olympic triathlon in 2000 was selected to kick off the worldwide series on April 11.

The Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki said Sunday they were considering bidding for the 2020 Summer Olympics in tandem with a campaign to promote a nuclear-free world.