Tokyo: Foreign volunteers will not be allowed to serve in the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympic Games this summer, a countermeasure against Covid-19, the organisers said. Tokyo 2020...
Kingston: Jamaica’s two-time Olympic gold medallist sprinter Yohan Blake said that he would rather not participate in the Tokyo Olympics than take a vaccine for Covid-19. The...
Tokyo: International runners will be unlikely to take part in the Olympic torch relay to start on March 25, organisers said here on Thursday. Tokyo 2020...
Paris: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has narrowed down on Australian city Brisbane as its preferred candidate to host the 2032 Olympic Games. India was among the...
New Delhi: Haryana’s international athletes Sandeep Kumar and Rahul Kumar in the men’s event and Uttar Pradesh’s Priyanka Goswami in the women’s category won the 2021 Olympic...
Tokyo: Holding the Tokyo Olympics without spectators is one of the scenarios that the Games organising committee is evaluating, the committee’s president Yoshiro Mori said. Uncertainty looms...
Tokyo: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Monday that he is determined to host the Tokyo Olympic Games although the Covid-19 pandemic situation is worsening in...
Tokyo: The final budget for the 2021 Olympic and Paralympic Games has been increased by 22 per cent to 1.64 trillion yen (15.8 billion US dollars)...
Sydney: The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) has launched a special project to assist Australian athletes manage difficulties associated with Covid-19 before, during and after the postponed Tokyo...
Paris: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has decided the event program and the athlete quotas for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games with ‘breaking’ a competitive form of...
Tokyo: Athletes at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics won’t have the luxury of hanging around once they’ve wrapped up their event. No late-night parties in the Athletes...
Tokyo: International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach believes that the postponed Tokyo Olympic Games can be held safely and, in all likelihood, with some kind...
Tokyo: The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) has announced Tokyo will host an international gymnastics tournament on November 8. “As part of the return to international competition, the...
Tokyo: Japan is determined to host the postponed Tokyo Olympics and Paralympic Games in 2021 to prove that humanity has defeated the Covid-19 pandemic, Japanese Prime...
Tokyo: Tokyo 2020 CEO Toshiro Muto has stated that a COVID-19 vaccine is not a requirement for holding next year’s postponed Olympics and Paralympics. Muto on...
New Delhi: India’s first female Indian gymnast to participate in Olympics Dipa Karmakar secured a fourth spot in Women’s Vault Gymnastics event at Rio Games on...
Laussane: The International Olympic Committee is allocating more than 25 million to cover extra athlete and team costs related to the one-year postponement of the Tokyo...
Paris: This season’s figure skating, short track skating and synchronised skating world championships have been “definitively cancelled” due to the coronavirus pandemic, the International Skating Union...
Tokyo: The International Olympic Committee will face “several hundred million dollars” of added costs because of the postponement of the Tokyo Games, the body’s president said....
Tokyo: As the coronavirus spreads in Japan, the chief executive of the Tokyo Games said Friday he can’t guarantee the postponed Olympics will be staged next...
New Delhi: Tokyo Olympics 2020 was near, each and everyone was excited, preparation of athletes was on full swing. But the coronavirus pandemic has played havoc...
Tokyo: The Olympic flame will be removed from display in Japan, officials said Tuesday, as the country braces for a state of emergency due to the...
New Delhi: The total amount of contribution raised by the Indian Olympic Association through donations from its state affiliates and National Sports Federations touched Rs 1...
Lausanne: The International Olympic Committee has set June 29, 2021 as the new deadline for the qualification period of the Tokyo Olympics, which has been rescheduled...
Tokyo: The under-construction Athletes Village for the Tokyo Olympics could be used as a temporary hospital for coronavirus patients. Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike has been talking...
New Delhi: The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has helped raise Rs 71 lakh through donations from its state affiliates and National Sports Federations (NSF) as contribution...
Lausanne: The postponement of the Tokyo Olympics and the shutdown of the sporting calendar because of the coronavirus pandemic are going to hit international sports federations...
Tokyo: The Tokyo Olympics will open next year in the same time slot scheduled for this year’s games. Tokyo organisers said Monday the opening ceremony will...
New Delhi: The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) on Monday promised “support and contribution” towards the country’s battle to contain the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, saying its member...
New Delhi: IOA president Narinder Batra on Saturday said the Tokyo Olympics qualification events, postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic, will be held once the health crisis...
Tokyo: Every cloud has a silver lining and the devastating postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics could hand organisers a heaven-sent opportunity to solve their other...
Tokyo: Tokyo Olympic organisers announced Thursday that they are canceling a cultural event featuring collaborative performances of kabuki and opera next month due to the spreading...
Tokyo: The Tokyo Olympics need new dates for the opening and closing ceremonies in 2021. Nothing much can get done until those dates are worked out...
New Delhi: Indian shooting ace Abhinav Bindra feels the International Olympic Committee was “prompt” in postponing the Tokyo Games, even as some other top athletes and...
Washington: Aside from figuring out how to maintain their health and fitness for an additional year, athletes like Ryan Crouser suddenly faced another concern when the...
Tokyo: With the Tokyo Olympics postponed until 2021, now comes the multi-billion-dollar question: Who pays the bills for the delay, and how large will they be?...
Laussane: Olympic chief Thomas Bach says “all options are on the table” over finding a new date to hold the postponed Tokyo Games. Tokyo 2020 became...
