A long-serving Tokyo 2020 official has spoken of the "really tough journey" organisers have endured over the past year preparing for the delayed Olympic and Paralympic Games here.
Olympic medallist and former world record holder Allison Wagner has urged the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to be more transparent over testing to help put clean athletes’ minds at ease.
Swimmer Jennifer Harding-Marlin is set to become the first athlete to have a case heard by the specially-established Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) Ad Hoc Division at Tokyo 2020 later today as she seeks to secure a universality place at the Olympic Games here.
The flagbearers for the United States is set to be the coolest member of the team at next week’s Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games here in Tokyo with the help of a state-of-the-art cooling device.
The Olympic Committee of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK NOC) has weighed in on the ongoing Tokyo 2020 map dispute by criticising Japan for referencing South Korea-controlled islands as part of the host nation for the Olympic Games.
World Athletics President Sebastian Coe hailed the "inspiring" efforts of the university sport community during the COVID-19 crisis at the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) Awards.
The 14-time Paralympic gold medallist Dame Sarah Storey is set to compete in her eighth Games after being selected in Britain’s cycling squad for Tokyo 2020 here next month.
A new study has been launched to find out how people aged between 18 and 30-year-olds view the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo.
Australia’s women’s wheelchair basketball team will be setting their sights on a return to the Paralympic podium after confirming their 12-player squad for next month’s Games here in Tokyo.
Olympic medallist and former world champion Eve Muirhead has joined events and experiences company hasta World as an ambassador to help raise the profile of curling prior to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.
The United States’ surfing team have started their pre-Olympic Games training camp with ocean and wave pool practice sessions in Japanese city Makinohara.
Trevor Pearce has been re-appointed as chair of UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) while two non-executive directors have been added to the agency’s Board.
Wheelchair tennis player Rob Shaw and judoka Priscilla Gagné are the latest athletes to be added to Canada’s squad for next month’s Paralympics here.
South Korea’s Olympic team were told to remove banners hung on balconies at the Athletes’ Village here in Tokyo after its message upset officials from a far-right Japanese political party.
Reigning Paralympic high jump champion Mariyappan Thangavelu has been chosen as India’s flagbearer for Tokyo 2020 here next month.
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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