Olympic Games
Events

French president Emmanuel Macron has claimed that Paris 2024 is not doing enough to benefit the French capital’s poorest areas.
Boxing
Governance

The International Boxing Association (Aiba) has formed a taskforce to investigate what it claims is a “rogue group” of Kazakh officials that is seeking to form a breakaway organisation for the sport.
Events

Seoul has today (Monday) been selected as South Korea’s candidate city for its joint bid with North Korea for the 2032 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Athletics

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has handed out sanctions to 12 Russian athletes utilising evidence that a “systemic” state-backing doping scheme was operated for a number of years.
Governance

Tsunekazu Takeda, the president of the Japanese Olympic Committee, has denied accusations of corruption levelled at him by a French investigation into the awarding of the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games

The International Olympic Committee has said the bids for the 2026 winter Olympic Games reflect the “very positive impact” of the Agenda 2020 reform package after Stockholm-Åre and Milan-Cortina submitted thei…
Governance

Tsunekazu Takeda, the president of the Japanese Olympic Committee, has been indicted in France over allegations related to the awarding of the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo, in a major blow…
Multi-sport

US technology company Intel and Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba have teamed up to develop new athlete-tracking technology, which they hope will be utilised at the 2020 summer Olympic Games in Tokyo
Multi-sport

The organising committee for the Tokyo 2020 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games has said it remains committed to cost-cutting efforts as it today (Friday) revealed unchanged budgets for the events through…
Winter Sports
Events

Salt Lake City, Utah will be put forward to host a second Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2030, beating Denver, Colorado to the nomination
Licensing & Merchandising

The International Olympic Committee and worldwide TOP partner Alibaba Group have announced the launch of the first-ever Olympic store on Tmall, China’s largest B2C online marketplace for brands and retailers.
Winter Sports
Events

The IOC is undertaking a range of reforms designed to make bidding for and hosting the Olympics less costly and less complex. Jonathan Dyson asks whether any progress is being made, including in the current 2026 Winter Olympics bidding race, and looks at what more needs to be done.
Esports
Events

The IOC has poured cold water over building speculation that esports could become an Olympic sport in the near future, calling such conversations “premature”.
Events

Denver is looking to stage the 2030 Winter Olympics with a radical hosting model which would split events between different states across North America
Events

The Indian Olympic Association has confirmed it has submitted a formal expression of interest to bid for the 2032 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, adding it is “dead serious” in its intentions to …
Boxing

Tokyo 2020 has said it will proceed with preparations for boxing at the summer Olympic Games, despite the International Olympic Committee (IOC) having suspended work amid the governance crisis at the International…
Boxing
Governance

The International Olympic Committee has today (Friday) decided to suspend preparations for boxing at the 2020 summer Olympic Games as it commenced a procedure which could lead it to withdrawing recognition…
Winter Sports
Events

The Salt Lake City Council has approved a resolution supporting an “expression of interest” agreement with the United States Olympic Committee, formalising its interest in bidding to host the Winter Oly…