Olympic Games
Sponsorship & Marketing

The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committe (USOPC) has signed global pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly as a sponsor the US Olympic and Paralympic teams in a deal also involves its broadcast rights-holder…
Rugby Union
Events

SportAccord on Thursday confirmed that this year’s World Sport & Business Summit will not take place in Beijing due to the Novel Coronavirus outbreak in China, while Tokyo 2020 has reiterated that this s…
Events

Salt Lake City and the state of Utah have formed a new committee to drive a proposed US bid for either the 2030 or 2034 winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, while Ukraine's Prime Minister, Oleksiy Honcharuk,…
Multi-sport
Sponsorship & Marketing

Korean mobile device manufacturer Samsung has announced a special edition of its latest smartphone, the Galaxy S20+5G, that will only be available for Tokyo 2020 Olympic athletes
Events

The organising committee of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics said yesterday that tickets will be made available for worldwide sale in May
Multi-sport
Media

The NBC Olympics division of US media company NBCUniversal will partner with mobile-first video news outlet NowThis to produce content focused on United States Olympic and Paralympic athletes in the lead-up …
Events

The organisers of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games are offering full or partial refunds on tickets for the marathon and race walking events, after they were relocated to Sapporo due to concerns over the summer…
Sponsorship & Marketing

The German Paralympic Committee (DBS) has extended its exclusive marketing partnership with the Deutsche Sport Marketing (DSM) agency
Para Sport
Events

The International Olympic Committee will open a temporary Paralympic Museum in Tokyo this August and September

Vietnam has halted all national and international sports events in the country this month due to the coronavirus outbreak
Media

Finnish public-service broadcaster YLE has sublicensed selected free-to-air and radio rights to the 2022 and 2024 Olympic Games from international media group Discovery
Badminton
Events

Mixed martial arts promoter ONE Championship has cancelled its planned event in Chongqing on April 11 due to the coronavirus epidemic
Sponsorship & Marketing

International public relations firm Hill+Knowlton Strategies has appointed former GMR Marketing executive Jamie Corr as the new managing director of its sports sector in the UK
Events

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said yesterday that his government will work closely with the World Health Organisation to ensure that the upcoming Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games are not affected…
Multi-sport
Events

The Ariake Arena in Tokyo, the venue for volleyball and wheelchair basketball events at this summer's Olympics and Paralympics, was inaugurated at the weekend with a sports, entertainment and culture ceremony
Athletics
Governance

World Athletics has banned certain variants of Nike's Vaporfly running shoes for elite competition and announced significant changes to its rules on shoe technology
Esports
Events

Tokyo 2020's organisers have dismissed reports that this summer's Olympics might be cancelled or postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak
Events

Asian qualifying competitions for Tokyo 2020 Olympics boxing and women's football, Fina's Diving World Series and the Blue Bay LPGA tournament have become the latest events affected by the coronavirus…