Paralympic Games

Para Sport
Events

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has confirmed that marathon events at the 2020 summer Paralympic Games will remain in Tokyo, but it has brought forward start times of para triathlon events…
Para Sport
Events

International Paralympic Committee (IPC) president Andrew Parsons has stated organisers of the 2020 summer Paralympic Games have received “unprecedented” demand for tickets, adding that applications for…
Para Sport
Sponsorship & Marketing

Japanese sportswear company Mizuno has agreed a deal to be the official sport shoe supplier of the 2020 Australian Paralympic Team, covering the 2020 Paralympics in Tokyo
Multi-sport
Events

Tokyo 2020 Olympics organisers have unveiled their completed gymnastics venue, as they prepare for an IOC Coordination Commission visit this week that is expected to touch on the recent debate over the…
Events

The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) will be holding two regional forums in Bangkok in November, focusing on next year's Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo
Para Sport
Events

International Paralympic Committee president Andrew Parsons revealed that a record number of 390,000 Japanese residents took part in the first Paralympic ticket lottery for Tokyo 2020, more than three…
Sponsorship & Marketing

The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) has updated its Rule 40 marketing guidelines for athletes, giving them greater freedom to associate with sponsors during Olympic and Paralympic…
Events

The organising committee for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games has today (Monday) finalised its selection of 30 ‘Live Site’ venues by adding one more destination to the previously announced lis…
Para Sport
Events

World Sailing has signalled its intention to bid for para sailing’s inclusion at the 2028 Paralympics in Los Angeles after missing out on a spot at the 2024 Games in Paris.
Swimming
Events

The Tokyo Organising Committee of the 2020 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games has entered into a partnership with the body overseeing Fukuoka’s staging of the 2021 Fina World Championships in an agreement d…
Events

The Australian state of Queensland’s bid to host the 2032 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games has edged closer to fruition with the announcement that the regional government will establish a taskforce, l…
Events

The Tokyo Organising Committee of the 2020 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games has unveiled four new robots which will be deployed to assist spectators, athletes and officials at competition venues, stating…
Events

Stefan Löfven, the prime minister of Sweden, and Margot Wallström, the country’s foreign minister, have given their backing to Stockholm’s bid to host the 2026 Winter Olympic Games. “
Surfing
Events

The local organising committee of the 2024 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games has confirmed that surfing events will be held on natural waves at a venue outside of Paris, as the International Olympic…
Events

The executive council chairs of the three Swedish regions proposed to host the 2026 edition of the winter Olympic and Paralympic Games have published a joint letter of support for the bid
Events

The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) has joined forces with Worldwide Olympic Partner Procter & Gamble to launch its latest venture to utilise the events as a…
Marketing

US media company NBCUniversal (NBCU) has today (Wednesday) joined forces with LA 2028, organising committee of the summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in Los Angeles, to establish what they claim is a…
Governance

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has today (Thursday) named Shunichi Suzuki as his new Olympics Minister and said his under-fire administration will make renewed efforts to regain the public’s trust aft…