Wrestling News: United World Wrestling (UWW) has downplayed the prospect of Iran being banned from wrestling competitions or the Olympic Games following the execution of wrestler Navid Afkari. The 27-year-old, who was given two death sentences for stabbing…
Japans new prime minister has gotten the word out to the president of the International Olympic Committee that he is behind next years delayed Tokyo Games. Yoshiro Mori, the head of the local organizing committee and also a…
Wrestling News: The Global Athletes body has demanded the United World Wrestling to expel Iran following the execution of wrestling champion Navid Afkari. Iran’s state media on Saturday, reported that that Afkari was executed, despite the case attracted…
Wrestling News: The International Olympic Committee and amateur wrestling’s governing body United World Wrestling (UWW) on Saturday reacted to the execution of Iranian wrestler Navid Afkari. While IOC said that it was “shocked” by the development, the UWW…
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…
As the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games approach its 500-day countdown, Olympic family members have spoken highly of the Beijing 2022 preparations despite the Covid-19 pandemic this year. “The IOC continues to be impressed by the progress…
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…
?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…
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…
Tamas and Viktor Lorincz were already waiting for the Tokyo Olympics when the news of postponement due to covid-19 came. Both the wrestlers are in their 30s and will possibly be competing in their last Olympics before hanging…