just two months after the unprecedented Olympic postponement, organizing committee CEO Toshiro Muto was asked Thursday about progress toward next year’s rescheduled Tokyo Games. “If you ask, are we just around the first corner of the 400-meter race,…
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The brutality of COVID-19 has been keenly felt by sports industries around the world, and especially so for the Tokyo Olympic Games, which has been pushed back a year to 2021 due to the pandemic. As the U.S.…
A senior Olympics official has warned that holding the postponed Tokyo Games next year faces “real problems”, with even a vaccine unlikely to stave off the threat of the coronavirus. John Coates, the International Olympic Committee’s pointman for…
During the Covid19 times when the world is suffering all over, what is required is camaraderie, mutual respect and work in unison. Contrary to all of this country’s highest sporting body, the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) is seeing…
International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach said on Thursday that the IOC is willing to bear up costs of upto $800 million in the organisation of the postponed Tokyo Olympics. The 2020 Olympics was postponed to 2021…
United World Wrestling (UWW) President Nenad Lalovic chaired a web conference with the federation of national federations to discuss the way forward for wrestling. The world governing body has instructed the national federations to organize regional tournaments with…
With the postponement of 2021 Tokyo Games, the fans are forced to wait for one more year until they see their favourite athlete taste the Olympic glory. Similarly, the dreams of the new crop of wrestlers to etch…
Senior international Olympics official John Coates says the delayed Tokyo Olympics could end up being the greatest Games ever, coming next year as the world emerges from COVID-19 crisis. Coates, Australia’s Olympic chief and head of the International…
The Wrestling community has always been bigger than just its carpet fighters. Currently the recommendations for fans, athletes, coaches and administrators is to follow the “Stay Strong and Stay at home” campaign, the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.…
In the search to find purpose and to accomplish something new each day while in isolation, Erica Wiebe has discovered a talent for getting dressed upside down. It’s all part of the optimism and sense of humour that…