The Japan Wrestling Federation in a virtual board meeting on September 7 decided to go ahead with the Emperor’s Cup All Japan Championship. The competition will be held in the senior and junior age groups in December. The…
Bulgaria has resumed its wrestling calendar for the remaining year with the cadet championship. The first event after the forced break due to coronavirus pandemic will kick off from September 10. It will be a four-day tournament which…
Tokyo’s postponed Olympics will go ahead next year regardless of the coronavirus pandemic, IOC vice president John Coates told AFP Monday, saying they would be the “Games that conquered Covid”. The Olympics have never been cancelled outside of…
World Championship bronze medallist wrestler Rahul Aware has tested positive for coronavirus after his arrival at the Sports Authority Of India’s (SAI) Sonepat Centre for the national camp. Aware is the fifth Indian wrestler to test positive for…
Tokyo 2020 CEO Toshiro Muto has stated that a COVID-19 vaccine is not a requirement for holding next year’s postponed Olympics and Paralympics. Muto on Friday attended the first meeting on countermeasures against the coronavirus pandemic with a Japanese…
An employee with the Tokyo 2020 organising committee has tested positive for Covid-19, it was announced on Saturday. A Tokyo 2020 statement said that the man in his 30s, employed at a Tokyo 2020 office in Harumi in…
Wrestling News: After three Indian wrestlers tested positive for coronavirus at the Sports Authority of India (SAI) centre in Sonepat, the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) is facing growing calls to postpone the men’s national camp. Some grapplers…
America’s top athletes could be banned from the Olympics and other major international sporting events if the United States follows through on its threat to withdraw funding from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), anti-doping leaders told Reuters. The…
Wrestling News: Olympic-bound wrestler Bajrang Punia on Thursday advised his fellow grapplers to not break COVID-19 protocol at the national camp in Sonepat. According to a source, eight men wrestlers have reached the venue so far and they…
A panel set-up to aid the organisation of next year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo during the coronavirus pandemic is scheduled to meet for the first time on Friday (September 4). It will discuss border controls, COVID-19…