Olympic Games
Events

The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) has confirmed the schedule for the postponed summer Olympics after locking down all 43 venues for next year’s multi-sport e…
Events

Only 23.9 per cent of people in Japan support holding the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics next year as scheduled according to a survey
Badminton
Events

The Chinese Basketball Association’s first chief executive officer Wang Dawei has left his post after just 14 months in the job citing “personal reasons”. The
Archery
Events

The International Olympic Committee will meet today to discuss ways of pushing ahead with plans for a "frugal" Tokyo Games next year
Finance & Law

Financial support to international federations from the International Olympic Committee in the form of loans or donations has reached $63m (€55.3m), IOC president Thomas Bach has announced.
Australian Rules Football
Events

Cricket Australia confirmed it will stage the longest ever Big Bash League in 2020-21, despite some players calling for a reduced version of the domestic Twenty20 tournament – Reuters A
Multi-sport
Events

Veteran International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound has said he would not expect the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics to go ahead if the Tokyo Olympics cannot take place next year due to lingering Covid-19…
Host Broadcast & Production

Austrian public-service broadcaster ORF will turn to remote production where possible for its coverage from next year’s Olympic Games in Tokyo as it continues its cost cutting plan in the wake of the C…
Sponsorship & Marketing

The Beijing Organising Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (BOCOG) has signed Yuanfudao Online Education as a second-tier Official Sponsor of Beijing 2022
Multi-sport
Events

The postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Covid-19 pandemic is forcing the Japanese Olympic Committee to cut funding for Japanese sports federations
Cricket
Governance

Three International Skating Union figure skating events in China in November and December will go ahead as planned, as exceptions to the ruling last week by the country's General Administration of Sports…
Sponsorship & Marketing

IT firm Atos has extended its Worldwide Olympic Partnership deal with the International Olympic Committee for four years, until the end of 2024, guaranteeing continuity in the operations technology underpinning…
Baseball
Events

Sport in Japan is making tentative progress in its return after the Covid-19 shutdown, as authorities and organisers implement various measures to re-admit fans and lay the ground for the Tokyo Olympics…
Multi-sport
Events

Yuriko Koike was re-elected as Governor of Tokyo at the weekend, beating 21 challengers including at least two who were opposed to the Olympics taking place in the city next year
Multi-sport
Sponsorship & Marketing

The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics organising committee has signed a quartet of official suppliers
Multi-sport
Events

A public poll has found 51.7 per cent of Tokyo residents hope the Olympics in 2021 is postponed again or cancelled, while 46.3 per cent want to see the event proceed
Multi-sport
Events

Tokyo 2020 organisers are starting talks with sponsors next month about the implications of the rescheduled Olympics
Basketball
Events

In a positive sign for next year's Olympics, Japanese Olympic Committee chief Yasuhiro Yamashita has told his international counterparts that Tokyo is gradually resuming sporting activities - Kyodo News