Multi-sport

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike has said proposals to change three venues for the 2020 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games represent the “last chance” to cut costs for the event, as local organisers continued to rail against plans to relocate rowing and canoeing some 250 miles north of the capital.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has said Beijing 2022 is off to a “fast start” in its preparations for the 2022 winter Olympic Games, adding that it is confident that China will provide access to an uncensored internet during the event.

Italian Olympic Committee (Coni) president Giovanni Malago admitted today (Tuesday) that the “game is over” after he wrote to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to suspend Rome’s bid for the 2024 summer Games.

France’s Prime Minister Manuel Valls has pledged €1bn ($1.12bn) of support from the government for Paris’ bid to host the 2024 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has expressed its full confidence that PyeongChang will deliver a “great” winter Olympic Games in 2018, but has said legacy planning and promotion of the event remain key concerns.

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Budapest 2024 has seen the latest attempt to call a referendum on its bid for the 2024 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games rejected by Hungary’s National Election Committee.

Carlos Nuzman has pledged to build on the momentum generated by Rio de Janeiro’s staging of the 2016 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games after being re-elected for a final term in office as president of the Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB).

Lee Kee-heung has today (Wednesday) seen off the claims of four rival candidates to be elected as the new president of the Korean Olympic Committee (KOC), with just over a year remaining until the country hosts the winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in PyeongChang.

The Japanese government today (Friday) approved a $1.5bn (€1.3bn) contract for the main Olympic stadium in Tokyo for the 2020 Games, paving the way for construction work on the delayed project to begin in December.

California Governor Jerry Brown has approved legislation that would provide a state-funded $250m (€223m) guarantee against any cost overruns associated with the city’s plans to host the 2024 summer Olympic Games.

Giovanni Malago, the president of the Italian Olympic Committee (Coni), has said that the organisation will “decide what to do” with Rome’s bid for the 2024 Olympics after meeting International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach on Tuesday of next week.

Kenya’s team leader at the 2016 summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil has been charged with stealing $256,000 (€288,000) from government and sports authorities.

A Tokyo government panel has urged the organising committee for the Japanese capital’s staging of the 2020 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games to relocate some of the venues for the multi-sport event after warning that costs of hosting could soar to over 3 trillion yen (€25.8bn/$29bn).

A Tokyo government panel reviewing the cost of the Japanese capital’s hosting of the 2020 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games has said that more venues could be moved out of the city to help save money.

Budapest 2024, the organising committee behind the Hungarian capital city’s bid to host the summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, has appointed Attila Mihók as its new chief executive, following the resignation of Miklós Fekete.