On the waterfront in Port of Spain, not far from where many of the officials and teams for are set to stay during the Commonwealth Youth Games, which are due to open on Friday (August 4), there is a frieze which pays tribute to every Olympic medallist from Trinidad and Tobago with outsize reproductions of the medals won.

Weightlifting is heading towards a future that could feature not just different kinds of competition but "a different kind of weightlifter" - and hundreds of people are involved in the process.

Sky News is running a feature this morning on anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries - reason being that England, already European champions, will shortly seek the FIFA Women's World Cup lacking two of their leading players due to this affliction.

This week, the next generation of swimmers have been in action at the European Junior Championships in Belgrade but 50 years ago, the same city was the setting for the inaugural World Championships in aquatic sports.

Two years after the original scheduled, the International Island Games (IIG) are returning to Guernsey for the third time next weekend, 20 years after they were last held there.

The television screen in the restaurant of our hotel - which is a 10-minute walk from the Silesian Stadium where the European Athletics Team Championships are taking place as part of the third European Games - is smartly placed above the coffee machines.

Later this week, Paris 2024 organisers are set to reveal the details of the domestic journey of the Olympic Flame after it arrives on French soil at the port of Marseille in May next year.

As part of their visit to the French capital last week members of the International Olympic Committee's Coordination Commission for Paris 2024 were invited to Roland Garros to watch the tennis.

The timing of this year's World Taekwondo General Assembly before the World Championships was no coincidence. May 28 marked 50 years to the day that it was founded as the World Taekwondo Federation in South Korea's capital Seoul, and preceded a seven-day showcase of a sport now firmly established on the Olympic programme. Indeed, it is established to the extent that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been firmly involved in the 50-year celebrations.

Thirty years after they were first held on Maltese soil, the 2023 Games of the Small States of Europe (GSSE) are set to open in Valletta.

When the African Weightlifting Championships officially closed in Tunis on Friday (May 19) the medals table looked just like it usually does, with Egypt and other northern nations dominating.

In his closing remarks at the 43rd European Olympic Committees (EOC) Seminar in Paris yesterday, the EOC President Spyros Capralos observed: "There was no better way to finish this Seminar than hearing the words from our Ukrainian friends. They remind us that we need solidiarity, we need to work for peace, and I hope that we will all continue working together and providing our help  as we have done up to now for Ukraine."

European Athletics reached a crossroads in Belgrade last month  with a Presidential election between two candidates promoting very different views. History records that the incumbent, Dobromir Karamarinov, held off the challenge of vice-president Libor Varhanik by 28 votes to 21.

One of the first engagements for King Charles III after his accession was to welcome the British Olympic and Paralympic medallists from Beijing 2022 and Tokyo 2020 to Buckingham Palace.

There has been a sports stadium in North London at what was known in Anglo Saxon times as "Wemba’s Lea" for 100 years.