The Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee (CTOC) has been given 200,000 facemasks by Medtecs Group to help safeguard its athletes from COVID-19 when travelling for international competitions.
The Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) has now sent the last of 20 containers of sports equipment and COVID-19 protection materials, totalling more than 20 tonnes in weight, to Japan ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Games' scheduled opening on July 23.
The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) has passed an amendment which will require at least one Aboriginal and one Torres Strait Island representative to serve on the organisation’s Athletes' Commission.
The German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) Ethics Commission will investigate claims made against its leadership in a letter which was reportedly backed by over one third of the organisation’s staff.
Theogene Uwayo has been elected unopposed as Rwanda National Olympic and Sports Committee (RNOSC) President.
The Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) technical working group has met to discuss the second version of the playbook released by Tokyo 2020 for the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Boxing Federation of India (BFI) executive director Raj Kumar Sacheti has died at the age of 55 after contracting COVID-19.
Australia’s hopes of adding to its 15 Winter Olympic medals at Beijing 2022 have been boosted by a new world-class freestyle skiing facility in Brisbane.
The bank Santander has become the global partner of the Spanish Olympic Committee's (COE) sustainability strategy, with the organisations vowing to work together to reduce the carbon footprint of Spain's Olympic team.
The German Olympic Sports Federation (DOSB) has said it is "amazed" by allegations about the current leadership, after an anonymous email claimed more than a third of staff say there is a "culture of fear" within the organisation.
Hong Kong is holding an inaugural Teqball Challenge Cup event as it seeks to prepare a team for the rescheduled Asian Beach Games in Sanya.
Team GB and Paralympics GB have launched their new kit for the forthcoming Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The German Olympic Sports Federation (DOSB) and the German Disabled Sports Association (DBS) have launched a campaign telling the stories of athletes journeys to participating in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The National Olympic Committee of Zambia (NOCZ) has been urged to back Morocco’s Kamal Lahlou’s bid to become vice-president of the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) by an Moroccan Embassy official.
The Papua New Guinea Olympic Committee (PNGOC) has encouraged schools to hold their own fun runs after the COVID-19 pandemic led to its annual event being called off for a second successive year.
Denver were awarded the 1976 Winter Olympic Games ahead of Sion in Switzerland, Tempere in Finland and Vancouver in Canada at the International Olympic Committee Session in 1970. But in a Colorado referendum in November 1972, voters rejected funding for the event. It is the only time a city has been awarded the Olympics but pulled out. The IOC then offered the Games to Whistler in Canada, but they too declined owing to a change of Government following elections. Salt Lake City offered to host the Games, but the IOC, still reeling from the Denver rejection, declined and selected Innsbruck, the 1964 host city, as a replacement.
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