Weightlifting will be granted full inclusion on the programme for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris once the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has handed over its entire anti-doping operation to the International Testing Agency (ITA), it was announced here today.
Tsunekazu Takeda officially ceased to be a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) today after the organisation's ruling Executive Board accepted his resignation at a meeting here.
Tokyo 2020 today published a report summarising progress, made mainly during 2018, in the implementation of its sustainability plan.
Female Japanese footballer Shiho Shimoyamada has come out as gay and has encouraged other athletes to do the same before the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
The British Olympic Association (BOA) has named its team leaders for each sport for Tokyo 2020.
Olympic superfan Naotoshi Yamada – who attended every Summer Olympic Games since 1964 – has died of heart failure aged 92.
Britain's marathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe took part in an event to encourage girls aged between 13 and 18 to participate in sport during the build-up to the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris.
Japan’s Ambassador to Ghana, Tsutomu Himeno, has met officials from the country – including National Olympic Committee President Ben Nunoo Mensah and the country’s Sports Minister Isaac Asiamah – to discuss preparations for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo.
The delivery body of Paris 2024 has launched the call for tenders for the construction of the Olympic and Paralympic Village.
Tokyo 2020 has today unveiled the design of the Torch that will be used during the Olympic Torch Relay and the emblem for the event.
Tokyo 2020 has signed-up Nippon Life and the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) as sponsors of the Olympic Torch Relay.
Organisers of next year's Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo are reported to be struggling to find enough large buses and drivers to transport athletes and related individuals.
Sea trials for the selection of equipment for the 2024 Olympic Games men’s and women’s one person dinghy sailing events have been held in Valencia.
Tsunekazu Takeda is set to resign as President of the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) following bribery allegations linked to the successful bid from Tokyo 2020, it has been reported.
American fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad has criticised attitudes in France towards the hijab, a debate becoming increasingly bitter in the build-up to the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
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Jakob Larsen, head of the Organising Committee for this week's International Association of Athletics Federations World Cross Country Championships in Aarhus, wants to provoke a serious debate about the sport returning to the Olympic programme, as he tells Mike Rowbottom.
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