Multi-sport

Los Angeles 2024 has announced the final proposed venues for the Californian city’s bid to stage the summer Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The organising committee behind Budapest’s bid to stage the 2024 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games has claimed that public support for the endeavour has increased significantly in Hungary over the past six months amid fresh moves for a referendum on the project.

The bidding procedure for the Olympic Games is once again coming under the spotlight. Mark Bisson gauges the mood for further changes to the process.

Hungarian youth organisation Momentum Mozgalom is poised to launch the latest effort to force a referendum in Budapest against the capital city’s bid to host the 2024 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Seven sports will seek to appeal the decision of UK Sport to cut their funding programmes in the four-year cycle leading up the 2020 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.

Pyeongchang Organising Committee for the 2018 Olympic and Paralympic winter Games (POCOG) president Lee Hee-beom has maintained that preparations for the event have been “clean” amid a political scandal in South Korea that has alleged connections to the country’s sports industry.

Alexander Zhukov, president of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), has said the country could bid to stage the 2028 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, despite being in the midst of a doping scandal that has led to the nation being stripped of the hosting rights to various events.

Rio de Janeiro’s Deodoro Olympic Park, one of the main sites for the 2016 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in the Brazilian city, has been forced to close, while local football authorities have called for action to prevent further damage at the Maracana stadium after it was targeted by looters.

Poland and the Czech Republic are planning a joint bid for the 2030 winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, according to Polish officials.

Some of the costs for building temporary facilities in Tokyo for the 2020 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games could be covered by the Japanese capital’s metropolitan government, according to a report in the Japan Times newspaper.

Rene Fasel, president of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), has said that he expects North America’s National Hockey League (NHL) to make a decision as to whether to allow its players to compete at the 2018 winter Olympic Games by the end of the month.

Gou Zhongwen, director of China’s General Administration of Sport, has been elected as the new president of the Chinese Olympic Committee (COC).

Brazil’s federal government has been assigned the operating rights to the Olympic Park sports venues developed for Rio de Janeiro’s staging of the 2016 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games after a failed auction process.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has today (Friday) opened disciplinary proceedings against 28 Russian athletes who competed at the 2014 winter Olympic Games in Sochi, as President Vladimir Putin issued further denials regarding the existence of a state-sponsored doping system in the country.

The organising committee for the Tokyo 2020 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games has today (Wednesday) formally confirmed its budget plans for the first time, with between Y1.6tr (€13.1bn/$13.6bn) and Y1.8tr having been allocated to deliver the two events.

The organising committee for the Tokyo 2020 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games will look to settle its budget between Y1.6tr (€13bn/$13.6bn) and Y1.8tr, according to the Kyodo news agency.