Organisers are ploughing ahead with the postponed Tokyo Olympics and will decide by the end of the year what “counter-measures” are required to hold them safely in the time of COVID-19, IOC Vice President John Coates said on…
Amid uncertainty about planning the Tokyo Olympics, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said Wednesday that progress with vaccines and rapid testing for COVID-19 would not be the complete answer for staging the rescheduled games. “They will not…
Beijing 2022: Over 160 human rights advocacy groups have delivered a joint letter to the chief of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) calling for it to reconsider its choice to award China the 2022 Winter Games in light…
Tokyo Olympics: Officials from the Japanese govt, Tokyo govt and the Olympics organising committee have met to develop steps to counter the virus at the Games The rearranged Tokyo Games must be held “at any cost” in 2021,…
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…
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…
?The Tokyo Olympics are already the most expensive Summer Games on record with costs set to go higher, a wide-ranging study from Britain”s University of Oxford indicates. The Tokyo cost overrun already exceeds 200%, lead author Bent Flyvbjerg…
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…
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…
Los Angeles 2028 has unveiled a new logo for the Olympic and Paralympic Games featuring an “ever-changing A”, which organisers say will allow co-creation with members of the public able to design their own version. The “A” is…