Olympic Games

Badminton
Events

Online training sessions for volunteers at next summer's Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics have resumed following a roughly eight-month suspension due to the Covid-19 pandemic - Japan Today
Para Sport
Sponsorship & Marketing

International Paralympic Committee (IPC) sponsors Airbnb, Asics and Panasonic have pledged their support for a newly-announced refugee team that will compete at next year’s rescheduled Paralympic Games i…
Athletics
Events

The Australian Institute of Sport is to provide funding of more than A$115m ($82.1m/€69.7
Events

A Japanese government-led group has agreed to set up a disease control centre in the athletes village at next year's Tokyo Olympic Games
Athletics
Events

Sunday's NRL grand final in Sydney provided a 12 per cent boost in television ratings from last year, 2.97 million tuned in to free-to-air broadcaster Nine up from the 2
Basketball
Events

The newly built Tokyo Aquatics Centre was unveiled during an event on October 24, marking the completion of all venues built for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics - The Japan Times
Multi-sport
Governance

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach said the Olympic Games must avoid turning into a “marketplace of demonstrations”. "The Olympic Games are firstly about sport. Th
Sponsorship & Marketing

The organising committee for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games has added Panpan Foods as a sponsor. The brand becomes the 'Official Packaged Snack Foods Sponsor' of both events
Media

Australian free-to-air commercial broadcaster Seven will broadcast the Beijing Winter Olympics Games in 2022 after renegotiating its current deal with the International Olympic Committee following the…
Events

US and UK authorities have accused Russia of conducting the “most disruptive and destructive” series of computer attacks ever attributed to a single group in wide-ranging charges that include the 2018 and…
Media

Swedish telecoms and cable television operator Com Hem and DTT platform Boxer have agreed deals with international media group Discovery to carry the Dplay OTT streaming service
Finance & Law

Japanese marketing firm Dentsu played a deeper role than previously understood in helping Tokyo win the 2020 Olympics hosting rights, according to news agency Reuters, which is reporting on ongoing scrutiny…
Events

Against a background of renewed optimism that the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Olympics will go ahead, Asian sports industry experts share their hopes that the event can bring a new maturity to the Japanese sports sector. Kevin McCullagh and Tom King report.
Rowing
Sponsorship & Marketing

British Rowing has extended its contract with global analytics partner SAS. The deal will now run until December 2021, meaning it will cover the rescheduled 2021 Olympic Games and Paralympics in Tokyo
Multi-sport
Events

The International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee have announced that the streamlining measures outlined for next year’s Games are set to contribute to a saving of ¥30bn (€240m/$280m).
Multi-sport
Events

British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has hinted that the UK could boycott the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics over China's treatment of the Uighur Muslims
Multi-sport
Media

The NBC Olympics division of US media company NBCUniversal has extended its content partnership with social media platform Twitter in a deal which covers the postponed Tokyo Summer Olympics set for the …
Basketball
Events

National Basketball Association commissioner Adam Silver has said the league is unlikely to take a break for the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics next summer