Tokyo 2020 Chief Executive Toshiro Muto has said that the organisers are looking to hold a Games that will be “simple but inspiring”. Muto admitted that holding the Olympics next year in the extravagant fashion that was earlier…
Tokyo Olympics: More than 60 per cent of the volunteers for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics are “worried or anxious” about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the Games, a survey has found. Japanese state broadcaster…
International Olympic Committee vice-president John Coates says the body will continue to find ways to “reduce the complexity” of the rescheduled Tokyo Games but traditional features, like the athletes’ village, won’t be compromised. Coates, who will again juggle…
Haryana will host the fourth edition of the Khelo India Youth Games after the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, the state”s chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar and Union sports minister Kiren Rijiju announced on Saturday. The Games will be held…
With just 365 days to go for the Tokyo Olympics, athletes from across the world have started getting in the groove of it. India has four confirmed quotas — three in men’s freestyle and one in women. Tokyo…
TOKYO: Next year’s Tokyo Olympics will follow an almost identical competition schedule as the one planned for this year before the event was postponed due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, organisers said on Friday. The International Olympic Committee…
Banning fans from the Tokyo Olympics is “clearly something we don’t want”, International Olympic Committee chief Thomas Bach said, adding that “multiple scenarios” were under consideration for the rescheduled Games. Bach said safety was the top concern for…
The Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee will issue ticket refunds to people unable to attend the games due to their one-year postponement, sources close to the matter said Thursday. Organizers have sold about 4.48 million tickets for…
Tokyo 2020 CEO Toshiro Muto said on Wednesday that the rearranged Olympics will “not be done with grand splendour”, but will be simplified. The Games, originally scheduled to start next month, were postponed for a year in March…
“My goal is to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics,” said Dauren Kurugliev. The 27-year-old is one of the top contenders who are bidding their chances for the Tokyo Games in 86kg men’s freestyle in Russia. Kurugliev says that…