International Olympic Committee (IOC)

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The autonomy of the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) from government interference has been guaranteed by a new decree issued by Italian authorities, just a day before the International Olympic Committee…
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Chinese President Xi Jinping has reassured International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach that despite disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic China will present the 2022 winter Games in line…
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International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound has said spectators are not a prerequisite for the Tokyo Olympics and expressed his confidence that the postponed Games will be able to take place in some…
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US government interference in the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) as well as threats to reduce funding for the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) have raised questions over whether …
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is reported to be working on methods to get athletes Covid-19 vaccines in the second or third wave of treatment in order to ensure the postponed summer Olympic…
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The Tokyo 2020 organising committee has revealed the details of its version five budget, showing the total estimated costs for the Games following the unprecedented decision to postpone the event into…
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The IOC recently declared 85 per cent of the recommendations laid out in Agenda 2020 have been achieved. Ben Cronin asks if the programme has succeeded in its core objective of controlling the cost of the Olympics
Surfing
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International Surfing Association (ISA) president Fernando Aguerre has called for the governing body to receive a share of Olympic Games revenues distributed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC),…
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The International Olympic Committee has claimed that 85 per cent of the recommendations outlined in its Agenda 2020 initiative “have been achieved” as the body hailed the progress and change driven by …
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The Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has been banned from attending the Tokyo Olympic Games next year by the International Olympic Committee as part of a series of provisional sanctions outlined…
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Breakdancing has been confirmed for its summer Olympic Games debut at Paris 2024, as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) approved an event programme and athlete quotas which have seen boxing and…
Winter Sports
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The International Ski Federation (FIS) and the Beijing 2022 organising committee have announced that all Olympic test events for skiing during in the 2020-21 season have been cancelled due to the ongoing…
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Parkour Earth has written to the International Olympic Committee, urging the body to reject the application of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) to include the sport of free running on the…
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Thomas Bach will stand as the only candidate in the election for president of the International Olympic Committee next year
Triathlon
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has cleared World Triathlon (WT) president Marisol Casado of any wrongdoing following a complaint filed by the World Triathlon Tribunal, as the Spanish official…
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Vincenzo Spadafora, Italy’s Minister for Sport and Youth Policies, has promised "autonomy" for the country’s Olympic committee, in response to International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach’s threa…
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The committee responsible for planning Salt Lake City’s proposed bid for a future Winter Olympic Games has said that the Covid-19 pandemic “hasn’t dampened our enthusiasm” for hosting the Games. Fra
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International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach has stated no IOC rules were broken by payments of more than $8m (€6.7