Russian athletes to compete at Olympic Games in Tokyo, Beijing using ROC acronym
Russian athletes will compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo and the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing, using the acronym ‘ROC,’ but...
Olympic minister Hashimoto nominated for Tokyo Games chief
Japan's Olympic minister Seiko Hashimoto emerged Wednesday as the most likely candidate to take the helm of the country's organizing committee to stage the...
Tokyo Olympic panel holds 1st meeting to pick Mori successor
The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee on Tuesday convened the first meeting of a panel tasked with selecting its new president, hoping to narrow down...
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Russian Olympic Champion Vlasov ‘was truly one of a kind’
Russian Olympic weightlifting champion Yury Vlasov, who passed away last Saturday at the age of 85, was not only one of the strongest people...
Foreign volunteers for Tokyo Olympics stuck in virus limbo
Judith Gurney is desperate to know if she is going to the Tokyo Olympics, not as an athlete, but one of the thousands of...
Tokyo Olympic organizers to hold special meeting Feb. 12 over Mori remarks
The organizing committee of this summer's Tokyo Olympics announced Wednesday it would hold a meeting later this week to discuss its response to controversial...
Olympics volunteers resign over president’s remarks about women
Hundreds of people who signed up to volunteer at the Tokyo Olympic Games have resigned in protest against derogatory remarks about women made by the...
Olympics: 390 Tokyo Games volunteers quit after Mori’s sexist remarks
Some 390 Olympic and Paralympic volunteers have decided to give up their roles in the wake of sexist remarks by Tokyo Games organizing committee...
IOC chief Bach floats possibility of no fans at Tokyo Games
International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, who previously said spectator numbers could be reduced to a "reasonable" level at the Tokyo Games, on Friday...
‘Sad day for women’s sports’: Row erupts after Joe Biden signs gender discrimination order...
US President Joe Biden's newly-signed executive order on “combating discrimination” has sparked controversy among many critics, who say it will destroy women’s sports by...