Olympic Games
Events

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach has said he is confident a large number of athletes and delegates at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will have received their Covid-19 vaccine in time for…
Sponsorship & Marketing

Olympic TOP sponsor Airbnb has launched a plan to provide elite athletes, Olympians and Paralympians with Airbnb accommodation credits
Events

A decision on whether domestic spectators will be allowed to attend the Tokyo 2020 Olympics may not be made until June, having originally been set for this month
Events

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has again expressed unease at Milan-Cortina d'Ampezzo 2026’s plans to utilise a redeveloped sliding venue for the winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, but has p…
Events

The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will be a testing ground for the next stage of China's digital currency rollout, after it revealed plans to give foreign visitors and athletes a chance to use its digital…
Events

US President Joe Biden has expressed his support for Japan’s effort to hold a “safe and secure” Olympic and Paralympic Games this summer, amid growing pandemic concerns in the country. I
Sponsorship & Marketing

Olympic TOP sponsor Atos has signed with the Paris 2024 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games as the exclusive Official Cybersecurity Services and Operations Supporter for the event
Finance & Law

The Australian Olympic Committee recorded a deficit of A$900,000 ($697,000/ €581,000) after the Covid-19 pandemic forced the delay of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
Events

Calling off the Tokyo 2020 Olympics is still an option if they are “no longer possible”, a senior politician from Japan’s ruling party has said. T
Events

The tide of negative Japanese public opinion over the staging of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games during the Covid-19 pandemic will turn, International Olympic Committee vice-president John Coates has said
Sponsorship & Marketing

The Paris 2024 organising committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games has signed technology company Cisco as a second-tier domestic sponsor to provide secure connectivity infrastructure
Sponsorship & Marketing

The British Olympic Association (BOA) has signed up frozen food manufacturer Birds Eye to the sponsorship portfolio of Team GB as an Official Supporter
Events

China has completed a 10-day testing programme for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics in a bid to gauge how it can prevent the spread of Covid-19 during the event
Media

Media group Discovery has announced the launch of new content to support its broadcast across Europe of the postponed 2020 summer Olympic Games in Tokyo
Swimming
Events

An Olympics diving qualifier in Tokyo that looked to have been cancelled last week will now go ahead following an agreement between the international aquatics federation and Japanese authorities
Table Tennis
Events

World Table Tennis, the commercial arm of the International Table Tennis Federation, has announced plans for a “China Hub” to stage the restructured WTT Series after the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Multi-sport
Governance

The US government said it is not discussing a joint boycott of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics with its allies, following comments Tuesday that suggested it wanted to do so
Multi-sport
Events

Richard Meng, president of the German Olympic Association in Berlin, and Frank Kowalski, managing director of the 2018 European Athletics Championship in Berlin, have proposed that the German capital and…