What is Inside the Games?
Inside the Games is the trade paper of the Olympic Movement — a British news site covering the institutional side of world sport: federation elections and congresses, host-city votes, programme decisions, anti-doping cases, and the disputes that reach the Court of Arbitration for Sport.[1]
What does it cover?
The governance beat rather than the results beat: who runs the international federations, which sports are added to or dropped from a Games programme, how recognition and suspension decisions are made, and how qualification systems change between cycles.[1] [2]
Why does it matter?
Because most of what this site records about governing bodies — a president's re-election, a federation's IOC recognition, a rebrand, an expulsion — is reported first and most fully in the governance trade press. It is the standard secondary source for facts that federations announce and then rarely republish.[1] [2]
References
- Inside the Games. Accessed August 2026.
- Inside the Games — about. Accessed August 2026.