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June 5 - Oslo's bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics was today backed by the City Council but it still faces its toughest obstacle, a public referendum in September.
March 27 - Poland and Slovakia's Prime Ministers have officially backed a joint bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, which would be the first time either country has staged the Games.
March 13 - Slovakia's Government has officially backed a joint bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics with neighbours Poland, Prime Minister Robert Fico announced today.
March 4 - The German Olympic Sports Federation (DOSB) has admitted there is now a strong possibility that Munich could bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics after Switzerland rejected the chance to move for the Games.
March 3 - Switzerland's proposed bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics in St Moritz and Davos has been ended after a state referendum today rejected the idea.
By Andrew Warshaw at the International Sports Event Management Conference in London
November 8 - Poland is considering putting forward Zakopane as a candidate to stage the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games – going head to head with Ukraine, with whom the country jointly staged the 2012 UEFA European Championship.
By Lauren Mattera at the International Sports Event Management Conference in London
November 7 - Ukraine is continuing its emergence as a more powerful and influential country, as their bid for the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games gathers pace, other more established bidders fall away, reinforcing the excitement growing within the former Soviet state that they can compete with the favourites, it was claimed here today.
October 18 - Ukraine is set to bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics through the city of Lviv after a major Sport Congress hosted here in the capital rubberstamped the plan in a resolution that was unanimously voted on.
By Tom Degun at the Grange St Pauls Hotel in London
September 5 - Sergey Bubka, President of the Ukrainian National Olympic Committee (NOC), is set to meet his country's Deputy Prime Minister Borys Kolesnikov in the next week to discuss a bid for the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.
From Andrew Warshaw at Russia.Park in Kensington Gardens in London
August 5 - After several disappointments, Switzerland are pushing ahead with a bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics from St. Moritz and Davos, leaving nothing to chance in terms of convincing the public that the Games will leave a proper credible legacy.
July 3 - The United States look almost certain to launch a bid for the 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympics after a move to try to host the 2022 Winter Games was definitively ruled out.
June 16 - Pole vault legend Sergey Bubka has claimed the early success of the 2012 UEFA European Championship in Ukraine could help bring the Olympics and Paralympics to the country with a possible bid now in the pipeline for the 2022 Winter Games.
March 9 - Xavier Trias, the Mayor of Barcelona, has revealed that it is irrelevant whether or not his city wins the right to stage the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics but he confirmed that they will bid for the event to help develop sport in the region.
February 6 - Pole vault legend Sergey Bubka has revealed that Ukraine are plotting a bid for the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games as part of a strategy to help develop the west of the country, one of the more underprivileged parts of the nation.
January 8 - Switzerland has appointed leading official Gian Gilli to carry out a feasibility study into a proposed joint bid from Davos and St Moritz to host the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, it has been announced.
When British skaters Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean won the Olympic gold medal in ice dance at Sarajevo 1984 with 12 perfect 6.0s from every judge, for their interpretation of Maurice Ravel's Boléro, an important member of their team was singer-actor Michael Crawford. Crawford, who had played Frank Spencer in British sitcom Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em and the title role in the musical The Phantom of the Opera, had become a mentor to the pair in 1981 and went on to help them create their Olympic routine. Crawford said he “taught them how to act". He was present with their trainer Betty Callaway at the ringside at Sarajevo as they created one of the most iconic moments in Olympic history.
Reporting to and working closely with the Events Director – Technical Operations, the Head of Technical Officials is responsible for day-to-day management of the Technical Officials programmes within the Events Department, including:
Management of day-to-day technical officials operations including tournament assignments and planning;
Management and development of the professional technical officials workforce including referees, umpires, and tournament doctors;
Technical officials policy development through consultation with key stakeholder groups including commissions, panels, Continental Confederations and working groups;
Innovation initiatives within the technical officials area to enhance officiating accuracy and sport presentation; and
Technical officials pathway development including working with Continental Confederations and Member Associations on recruitment, education, training, and development initiatives.
Pierre de Coubertin once said cricket has "practically no appeal for those who are not British". While he expressed doubts about the Olympic viability of cricket, lacrosse and baseball, Philip Barker wonders how the man who helped revive the modern Games would have reacted to new sports at Los Angeles 2028.