Tokyo Olympics – Uncertainty grows: International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound is not sure that if Tokyo Olympics will go ahead this year. According to Pound with surge in Covid-19 cases, their is some uncertainty around Tokyo Olympics.…
Athletes competing at next year’s Tokyo Olympics will have a shorter than usual stay at the world’s biggest multi-sports event due to tight COVID-19 health protocols, the International Olympic Committee said. IOC President Thomas Bach urged national Olympic…
Olympic medallists Gagan Narang and Sushil Kumar on Wednesday met the parliamentary standing committee formed to monitor and assist in Indian athletes’ preparations for next year’s Tokyo Games and beyond. The parliamentary standing committee for the Ministry of…
Tokyo Olympics 250 days to go: International Olympic Committee (IOC) chief Thomas Bach is “very, very confident” that spectators can attend next year’s postponed Games, he said on Monday, after a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga…
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has agreed to increase the budget of Olympic Solidarity for the period 2021 to 2024 by 16 per cent. The budget for 2021-2024 will now be a total of USD 590 million. With…
Aggressive lobbying by Japanese premier Yoshihide Suga has bolstered expectations within the government that the Olympic Games will go ahead next year, multiple insiders said, marking a sharp turnaround from just a few months ago. Suga has more…
The election of the next president of the International Olympic Committee will be held during the 137th IOC Session which will take place from March 10 to 12 next year in Athens. The decision was taken at the…
Another member from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics has been tested positive for Covid-19, taking the total toll to five. The employee in question is female, in her 40s, and is based at an office in Harumi. This is…
Tokyo Olympics: Organisers of next year’s delayed Tokyo Olympics will require coronavirus tests of foreign athletes upon their arrival in Japan, but may not mandate a two-week quarantine period, according to draft measures released on Wednesday. Japanese athletes…
The only thing more difficult than staging next year’s Tokyo Olympics in a pandemic might be convincing sponsors to keep their billions of dollars on board in the midst of economic turbulence and scepticism. To make the point…