Jamaican bobsleigh team push a Mini to keep Olympic dream alive
The Jamaican bobsleigh team is used to training without snow, but the coronavirus lockdown has seen its male athletes resort to pushing a car around...
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Cypriot Olympic athletes return to training
Athletes belonging to the Cyprus Olympic Committee have been returning to training since the first week of May. This ends a two-month period of downtime...
‘Priority is to support Cypriot athletes on new Road to Tokyo’
The postponement of the Olympic Games to 2021 has completely changed the course of planning of the Cyprus Olympic Committee. The postponement for one year...
Japan would ‘scrap’ Olympics if not held next year
Tokyo 2020 president Yoshiro Mori said that the Olympic Games, already postponed to 2021, would be “scrapped” if they could not take place then, according...
Positive reaction by Team Cyprus on Olympic postponement
The decision taken on March 24 by the IOC and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee for the postponement of the 2020 Olympic Games was met...
Olympics-Organisers must be flexible if coronavirus vaccine not ready in time, experts say
By Jack Tarrant The Tokyo Olympics next July will be a “uniquely risky” event, demanding flexibility from organisers amid the uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic,...
Doping ban could harm Olympic movement during coronavirus crisis, says Russia’s sports minister
Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin said on Friday officials should not rule against the country in its appeal to overturn a doping ban because it would...
Phelps urges athletes to take care of mental health
Olympic great Michael Phelps has voiced his concerns over the negative impact on athletes’ mental health of the Tokyo Games postponement prompted by the new...
Olympics to begin in July 2021
Japanese organisers and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided on Monday that the Tokyo Olympic Games would start on July 23, 2021, and run until...
Russian agency halts testing amid coronavirus outbreak
Russian anti-doping agency RUSADA said it was temporarily halting all testing in response to government measures aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus. Russia...
Tokyo Olympics postponed
The Tokyo Olympics were postponed on Tuesday into 2021, the first such delay in the Games’ 124-year modern history, as the coronavirus crisis wrecked the...
Olympics-Tokyo 2020 postponement decision due in days
A decision on whether to postpone this year’s Tokyo Olympic Games will be taken in coming days, two sources within the Olympic movement told Reuters...
Japan, IOC consider postponement as Canada, Australia withdraws from 2020 Games
Canada and Australia said they would not be sending athletes to the Tokyo Olympics if the Games went ahead as scheduled this year as pressure...
Dissent grows as IOC battles to keep Tokyo Games on track
The International Olympic Committee is facing its strongest headwinds in decades as it prepares to brief national committees on Wednesday on the state of the...
Flame for Tokyo Olympics lit in Greece amid virus precautions
The flame for the Tokyo Olympics has been lit at the birthplace of the ancient games in a pared-down ceremony because of the coronavirus. Standing...
No spectators at Tokyo Olympic torch lighting ceremony
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics torch lighting ceremony in ancient Olympia will be the first in more 35 years to be held without spectators after organisers...
Tokyo 2020 drops children from Olympic torch events as virus precaution
Some 340 Japanese children will be unable to participate in the Olympic torch ceremonies for the handover in Greece and arrival in Japan due to...
Olympics could be postponed until later in year
Tokyo’s Olympic 2020 contract allows it to postpone the Games until the end of the year, Japan’s Olympics minister said on Tuesday, amid concern the...
Usmanov donates $8.8 million Olympic document to Games museum
Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov came out as the mystery buyer of the original 1892 Olympic manifesto, the most expensive piece of sports memorabilia ever sold...
Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo to host 2026 Winter Olympics
Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo are promising an Italian Olympics packed with style and elan after winning the right to stage the 2026 Winter Games on...
