New Delhi: Owing to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, participating countries will be allowed to have ‘stand-by’ or ‘alternate’ players as part of certain team squads during...
Tokyo: With 30 days to go and the Covid-19 pandemic far from being contained in Japan and the world, the Tokyo 2020 organisers believe the Games...
Tokyo: Tokyo Olympic Games could see a ban on alcohol in dining and public areas of the Games Village although athletes will be allowed to consume...
Lausanne (Switzerland): The refugee team for the Tokyo Olympics has 29 athletes competing in 12 sports. The team selected by the International Olympic Committee on Tuesday...
Lausanne, Switzerland: Olympic athletes were told by the IOC that a waiver they must sign releasing Tokyo organizers from liability for COVID-19 issues was “standard practice”...
Tokyo: Restricting movement of people during forthcoming Olympics and Paralympics to same level as decrease in economic activity if the two events were to be called...
Tokyo: Study conducted by two University of Tokyo professors claims strict restrictions on movement of people, including ceasing of economic activity, during Olympics and Paralympics could...
Tokyo: International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach and vice-president John Coates were the target of social media anger in Japan on Monday over their insistence...
Jakarta: Indonesia on Sunday said that despite Brisbane’s strong bid for hosting the 2032 Olympics, it would continue to push for the quadrennial games, as a...
Lausanne: International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach indicated on Friday that the Tokyo Olympics has entered the ‘operational delivery mode’ when he said that athletes...
Tokyo: Japan’s top coronavirus adviser on Friday called on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and local organisers to decide whether to stage the Tokyo Olympics after...
New Delhi: International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga both reiterated their commitment that the postponed Olympic Games will be...
Lausanne: International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach said on Wednesday that the organisation is ready to send medical staff to Tokyo for this year’s Olympic...
Beijing: Despite public opposition to the hosting of Tokyo Olympic Games during Covid-19 pandemic, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) says success of the mega event will...
Tokyo: International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach’s visit to Japan, which was originally scheduled for May 17 and 18, has been pushed back to June,...
Tokyo: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Japanese organisers agreed on Wednesday to test Olympic athletes for the coronavirus on a daily basis, as they have...
Beijing: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board (EB) showed support for athletes’ freedom of expression at this year’s Tokyo Olympics but made it clear that...
Tokyo: International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach is confident that a “big number” of participants at the Tokyo Olympics this year will be vaccinated against...
Athens: A new lighting system installed at Athens’ Panathenaic stadium has been unveiled. The marble main venue of the first modern Olympic Games of 1896 is now...
Lausanne: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has decided to grant accreditation only to those people who have essential and operational roles at this summer’s Olympic Games...
Lausanne: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said that it has received an offer from China to make vaccines available for athletes participating at the 2020 Tokyo...
Lausanne: International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has been re-elected for an additional four-year term at the 137th IOC Session. The Olympic champion, who won...
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...
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...
Tokyo: Tokyo 2020 chief Yoshiro Mori bowed to mounting pressure and resigned on Friday over sexist remarks, but his replacement was not immediately clear after opposition...
Tokyo: Tokyo Olympics organising committee president Yoshiro Mori has said that they have been guaranteed full support by International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach. Mori...
Tokyo: The restart date for the Tokyo Olympic test events has been postponed by one month from March 4 to April 3, organisers announced here on...
Lausanne: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has urged the teams competing in the upcoming Olympic and Paralympic Games, scheduled to be held later in the year...
Tokyo: International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach pledged on Thursday that the Tokyo Olympics will be held as scheduled. Bach said that IOC is committed...
Tokyo: Tokyo 2020 organising committee chief Yoshiro Mori promised that the Olympic and Paralympic Games will be held as scheduled this summer. Mori made the remarks...
Beijing: The COVID-19 challenges have not compromised Japan and the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) determination to host, as scheduled, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which was already...
Tokyo: The exhibition of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics torches across the greater Tokyo area has been postponed due to the worsening situation of the Covid-19...
Tokyo: Organisers for the virus-postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics said Thursday they have reached “basic agreement” with all domestic sponsors to extend their contracts by a year,...
Paris: Russia is set to miss Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics after their ban from all major sporting events following a doping scandal has been cut half...
Zurich: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has decided to temporarily ban Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, also head of Belarus’ National Olympic Committee (NOC), from the Olympic Games....
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: Despite the postponement of the Tokyo Olympic Games costing the Japanese economy an additional 294 billion yen ($2.8 billion or over Rs 20,000 crore), Japan’s...
New Delhi: The cost of the postponed Tokyo Olympics could reach about USD 2.8 billion, according to figures released on Friday by the Tokyo organising committee,...
Zurich: Thomas Bach will stand unopposed to be re-elected as president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The organisation confirmed that the German will be the...
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...
