More than 400 Olympic athletes have urged the next president of the International Olympic Committee to prioritise tackling climate change, describing it as a “current and growing harm to the sports we love”.

More than 400 Olympians from nearly 90 countries around the world have joined in a call for the winner of next week's International Olympic Committee (IOC) presidential election to make climate their top priority.

Juan Antonio Samaranch, who is running for president of the International Olympic Committee, would push for a decision on transgender athletes' participation in sports before next year's Milano-Cortina winter Olympics,

More than 400 athletes, including more than 20 Canadians, speak up about threat of climate change to both the Winter and Summer Olympic Games.