New Delhi: FIFA’s fading plan for biennial World Cups was labeled a threat from soccer to all other sports by the International Olympic Committee on Thursday....
New Delhi: Steve Simon, the head of the WTA, says he remains “deeply concerned” about the whereabouts of Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai and her ability...
A global trade union body has joined a long list of human-rights advocates in challenging the propriety of China holding the 2022 Winter Olympics, and has...
Tokyo: The Olympics like no other opened here on Friday sans the customary razzmatazz, the toned-down ceremony showcasing Japan’s grandeur, rich culture and heritage while reflecting...
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...
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...
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...
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: 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...
Tokyo: Spectators from abroad will be barred from the Tokyo Olympics when they open in four months, the IOC and local organisers said on Saturday. The...
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...
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...
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...
New Delhi: International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach reaffirmed in his New Year’s message that the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and the Beijing 2022 Olympic...
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...
Tokyo: International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach has said that athletes for next year’s Tokyo Olympic Games are encouraged to get vaccinated, although the IOC...
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: Even though the availability of vaccines or rapid testing may not be a solution to conducting the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics, they will be of...
Tokyo: The Tokyo Olympics have hit the one-year-to-go mark again. But few are in a mood to celebrate. Tokyo observed the original date a year ago....
Geneva: IOC president Thomas Bach warned against Olympic boycotts while also confirming he will seek re-election next year. Bach seems certain to get four more years...
New Delhi: Two-time Grand Slam winner Naomi Osaka and Indian tennis star Sania Mirza will be part of the virtual “Summer Festival of Olympian and Paralympian...
Tokyo: The Tokyo 2020 organising committee and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has agreed to hold a simplified Olympics next year so as to make up...
New Delhi: Narinder Batra on Tuesday denied flouting any rules while becoming President of the Indian Olympic Association and the International Hockey Federation as he reached out...
Tokyo: The Japanese public is being prepared for the reality of next year’s postponed Olympics, where athletes are likely to face quarantines, spectators will be fewer,...
New York: American gymnast Simone Biles hopes that Olympics goes on as per it’s new schedule next year. Tokyo Olympics, which was originally slated to begin...
Tokyo: Tokyo 2020 CEO Toshiro Muto on Thursday denounced claims that the International Olympic Council (IOC) will have the Olympic Games cancelled if it is not...
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: Tokyo Olympics organisers are eyeing next July as a start date for the postponed Games, Japanese media reported Sunday, following the historic decision to delay...
Tokyo: Things began to unravel this week when the Tokyo Olympics were postponed until next year a decision announced by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Tokyo: The 2020 Tokyo Olympics have been postponed to no later than the summer of 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the globe, the International...
Tokyo: Olympic chief Thomas Bach will hold talks with Japanese leader Shinzo Abe on Tuesday as they come under intense pressure to act quickly and postpone...
