Olympic Games

Athletes organisation Global Athlete has urged sponsors to keep up payments to Olympic athletes through the Games in 2021

The International Olympic Committee and the local organising committee for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics have announced the establishment of a ‘joint steering committee’ for ensuring the del…

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach has said the organisation would face extra costs of "several hundred million dollars" due to the postponement of Tokyo 2020

The organisers of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics have invited companies to bid for official supplier contracts in several categories

Toshiro Muto, the Tokyo Olympics organizing committee chief executive, has admitted that there is no guarantee that the Summer Games will take place in 2021 due to the global Covid-19 pandemic.

The Olympic flame is being removed from display in Japan as the country enters a month-long 'state of emergency' in response to the coronavirus pandemic

Global payments specialist Visa has called on fellow sponsors to demonstrate support for Olympic athletes impacted by the postponement of the Tokyo Games

Australian Olympic Committee president and International Olympic Committee member John Coates has opted to take a voluntary 20-per-cent pay cut amid ongoing financial uncertainty caused by the Covid-19…

Next year’s edition of the World Games multi-sport event in Birmingham, Alabama has been postponed by 12 months to accommodate the new date for the summer Olympic Games in Tokyo.

Tokyo 2020's record domestic sponsorship sales will help the organisers absorb extra costs related to the Games' rescheduling, the International Olympic Committee said yesterday

The International Olympic Committee will look to find an “equitable solution” with rights-holding broadcasters over payment schedules for rights to the postponed Tokyo Olympic Games, according to Timo Lum…

UK public-service broadcaster the BBC has today (Thursday) unveiled plans to provide an array of content to compensate for the lack of sporting action it would have televised due to Covid-19

The International Surfing Association has reached an agreement with the government of El Salvador to postpone the World Surfing Games until further notice

Japanese businessman Haruyuki Takahashi was paid $8.2m (€7.4

Canada was the first nation to announce it would not send a delegation to the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics if they went ahead as scheduled this summer. It was a 'heartbreaking' decision but the right one, says the COC

The Australian Olympic Committee has said its decision to withdraw from Tokyo 2020 was unilateral, moving to quash speculation that it had acted in concert with Canada and the International Olympic Committee