The Pacific Games Council has requested that the dates for the 2021 Pacific Mini Games are reviewed following the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics by a year.
World Taekwondo President Chungwon Choue has revealed he sees the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympics as an "opportunity."
Japan is expected to enter into a deep recession due to the coronavirus pandemic, as the country prepares to host the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games next year.
Some of the world's most recognised athletes have responded to World Athletics' new Tokyo 2020 Olympic qualification system, which prevents competitors from securing a qualifying time before December 2020.
Japan has closed Tokyo 2020 training bases in the country after a state of emergency was declared due to COVID-19.
Tokyo 2020 organisers are on the lookout for new office space after the postponement of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Thailand is appealing to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) after being banned from weightlifting at Tokyo 2020 and suspended from the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) for multiple doping violations.
National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOCK) acting secretary general Francis Mutuku said the organisation would review preparations for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics following the Games' postponement until 2021.
World Athletics has frozen its Olympic qualifying window in response to the coronavirus pandemic, while half of the staff at its headquarters in Monaco are to be placed on leave.
United World Wrestling (UWW) could host their World Championships in an Olympic year for the first time in its history.
Tokyo 2020 officials will work from home as far as possible after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe declared a state of emergency for the capital, Osaka and five other prefectures today.
Olympic pole vault champion Katerina Stefanidi has reacted positively to the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympics, having criticised the International Olympic Committee (IOC) before the Games were moved.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe is set to declare a month-long state of emergency over the coronavirus pandemic, two weeks after the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games were postponed until 2021 because of the COVID-19 outbreak.
The Olympic Gundam, a plastic model due to be related to Tokyo 2020, will still be released this summer, despite the Olympic Games being delayed by a year because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) has donated food that was due to go to Tokyo for the Olympic and Paralympic Games this summer to a food bank in Colorado.
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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