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...
Lausanne: International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said Wednesday that the postponed Tokyo Games would require “sacrifices and compromises” from all sides to make them work....
Washington: Would-be Olympians and their coaches have gone from days and weeks of mulling one sort of uncertainty raised by the coronavirus pandemic Are the Tokyo...
Rome/Denver: The expected yet stunning decision to postpone the 2020 Summer Olympics because of the coronavirus could have a ripple effect on other major events, most...
Tokyo: Hundreds of luxury apartments overlooking Tokyo Bay that were due to be converted from the Athletes’ Village have already been sold — just one of...
New Delhi: The Indian Olympic Association on Wednesday conceded that careers of some athletes would be impacted by the postponement of Tokyo Olympics and the IOA...
Tokyo: The unprecedented decision to postpone the Tokyo Olympics over the coronavirus pandemic sets off an complicated and costly exercise that involves ripping up years of...
New Delhi: Life comes first, sport can wait. This was the collective view of India’s top Olympic-bound athletes, including stalwarts such as M C Mary Kom...
Tokyo: The historic decision to postpone this year’s Olympic Games over the coronavirus pandemic is likely to pile on the pain for Japan’s economy, already expected...
Tokyo: The postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics will be held in around a year as a “testament” to humanity’s victory over the new coronavirus pandemic, Japan’s Prime...
New Delhi: The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) on Tuesday welcomed the IOC’s decision to postpone the Tokyo Olympics by one year in view of the worsening...
Tokyo: The Olympic Games has suffered political boycotts (Moscow 1980) and terrorism (Munich 1972), but has only ever been cancelled due to outbreaks of war. With...
Tokyo: Olympic officials regularly lauded Tokyo as the best prepared host city they had seen. But no one could have planned for the coronavirus pandemic that...
Berlin: The president of Germany’s national Olympic association (DOSB) Alfons Hoermann on Tuesday called for the Tokyo Games to be postponed until next year and slammed...
Tokyo: The International Olympic Committee came under pressure to speed up its decision about postponing the Tokyo Games on Tuesday as athletes criticised the four-week deadline...
New Delhi: The sports ministry will soon introduce digital classes for the elite Indian athletes under the Target Olympic Podium Scheme to help sharpen their off-field...
Moscow: Russian Olympic officials has urged the global sports community to remain calm as the coronavirus pandemic threatens the upcoming Tokyo Games. “Panic is the worst...
London: The 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be postponed due to Coronavirus, International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound has said. “On the basis of the information the...
Paris: As the deadly coronavirus spreads around the globe, doubts grow over whether the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will go ahead as scheduled from July 24 to...
Tokyo: The Olympics rings are up and the cute wide-eyed mascots are plastered across billboards and commuter trains, but people in Tokyo are increasingly convinced the...
Sydney: Australian Olympic officials Monday said “it was clear” that the Tokyo Games could not go ahead as scheduled and told its athletes to instead prepare...
Tokyo: Postponing the Olympics over the coronavirus pandemic may become “inevitable”, Japan’s prime minister conceded Monday, after the International Olympic Committee said a delay was being...
Laussane: The International Olympic Committee has said that postponing the 2020 Olympics is one of its options as the world grapples with the coronavirus pandemic, but...
New Delhi: The Indian Olympic Association on Monday said it will “wait and watch” for at least a month before taking any call on the country’s Olympic...
Washington: Almost three-quarters of the 300 US athletes who took part in a virtual town hall with US Olympic officials support delaying the 2020 Tokyo Games,...
