Olympics: Streamlined Tokyo Games may set future standard

By Reuters,

The Olympic movement faces its biggest challenge for four decades in getting a streamlined Tokyo Summer Games up and running next year but influential...

John Coates , Olympic , Tokyo Summer Games

Qatar submits request to IOC over 2032 Olympic hosting rights

By Reuters,

Qatar, the host of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, announced on Monday it would also like to stage the Olympics, possibly in 2032. The Gulf Arab state’s...

Fifa World Cup , International Olympic Committee (IOC) , olympics

With a year to go, support slides for pandemic-hit Tokyo Olympics

By Reuters,

Several dozen protesters in masks gathered in front of Japan’s National Stadium on Friday, the day the Olympic Games should have begun, to protest a...

Covid-19 pandemic , olympics , Tokyo 2020

Tokyo marks one year to go until Olympics… again

By Reuters,

As Tokyo marked one year to go until the Olympics for the second time on Thursday, it was perhaps fitting that the newly-built National Stadium, inten...

Covid-19 pandemic , olympics , Tokyo 2020

A year to go, rearranged Tokyo Games still shrouded in uncertainty

By Reuters,

Tokyo 2020 organisers will host celebrations marking the one-year countdown to the Olympics on Thursday but with the postponed Games still shrouded in...

International Olympic Committee , olympics , Tokyo 2020

IOC’s Bach ready to run for second term as president

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International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach said on Friday he was ready to run for a second term at next year’s election. The 66-...

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Kayange, Kipyegon to lead Kenya in Olympic Day celebrations

By Agencies,

Olympic 1500m champion Faith Kipyegon and former Kenya Sevens captain Humprey Kayange will lead other Kenyan stars in marking the International Olympi...

Commonwealth athletes to be allowed to take a knee in protest

By Reuters,

Athletes competing in the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England will be allowed to take a knee in support of worldwide anti-racism movements,...

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IOC confirms protest ban remains

By Reuters,

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has confirmed that athletes are still banned from protesting at the Games after several sports moved to allo...

Black lives matter , IOC , olympics , protest , racism

Tokyo Games decision set for spring

By Reuters,

A Tokyo 2020 executive board member said on Friday organisers will need to monitor the novel coronavirus situation until next spring before deciding w...

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IOC chief Bach says Games would be cancelled if not held in 2021

By Reuters,

International Olympic Committee (IOC) chief Thomas Bach says the Tokyo Games would have to be scrapped if the event cannot be held next year due to th...

Covid-19 pandemic , IOC , Thomas Bach

NOCK, Kurume City to reschedule Japan camp deal

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

The plan for Kenyan athletes to train in Japanese City of Kurume in Fukuoka Prefecture prior to the Olympic Games will be rescheduled to new dates fol...

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Too early to worry coronavirus will further delay Tokyo Games

By Reuters,

It is premature to think the novel coronavirus outbreak will further delay the Tokyo Olympics, which have already been postponed a year, Brian McClosk...

2021 , Brian McCloskey , games , JAPAN , Tokyo Olympics

Undeterred Bitok keeping Malkia fit through WhatsApp

By Stanley Mativo,

National women’s volleyball team head coach Paul Bitok has turned to WhatsApp as his latest tool to help keep the Malkia Strikers squad fit, amid th...

Malkia Strikers , olympics , Paul Bitok , whatsapp

Postponed Olympics set for July 23 2021 start

By Agencies,

The 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games have been rescheduled to start on July 23, 2021 after being postponed due to coronavirus, the International Olympic Commi...

coronavirus , olympics , Tokyo 2020

Weeks of anguish and a ‘black box’ – Inside Tokyo’s decision to delay the Olympics

By Reuters,

Officials in charge of staging Tokyo’s Olympic Games crowded around a low table inside Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s residence late Tuesday, wincing...

coronavirus , olympics , Tokyo 2020

KIPROTICH: How coronavirus is stretching the 2021 athletics calendar

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

@gil_kiprotich After months of speculation, the Olympics Games were finally, as widely expected, postponed to next year due the coronavirus pandemic....

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IOC working toward July-August Olympics in 2021

By Reuters,

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is working with sports bodies to arrange a July-August window for the postponed Tokyo Olympics in 2021 and h...

olympics , Tokyo 2020

IOC criticised after Turkish boxers get coronavirus

By Reuters,

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been accused of irresponsibility after two Turkish boxers and a trainer caught the coronavirus during a ...

coronavirus , IOC , Turkish boxers

Rescheduled Tokyo Games may come before summer 2021: Bach

By Reuters,

The head of the global Olympic movement said on Wednesday that the rescheduled Tokyo Games faced “thousands” of logistical and financial problems ...

International Olympic Committee , Tokyo Olympics