Olympic Games
Events

China has completed a 10-day testing programme for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics in a bid to gauge how it can prevent the spread of Covid-19 during the event
Media

Media group Discovery has announced the launch of new content to support its broadcast across Europe of the postponed 2020 summer Olympic Games in Tokyo
Swimming
Events

An Olympics diving qualifier in Tokyo that looked to have been cancelled last week will now go ahead following an agreement between the international aquatics federation and Japanese authorities
Table Tennis
Events

World Table Tennis, the commercial arm of the International Table Tennis Federation, has announced plans for a “China Hub” to stage the restructured WTT Series after the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Multi-sport
Governance

The US government said it is not discussing a joint boycott of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics with its allies, following comments Tuesday that suggested it wanted to do so
Multi-sport
Events

Richard Meng, president of the German Olympic Association in Berlin, and Frank Kowalski, managing director of the 2018 European Athletics Championship in Berlin, have proposed that the German capital and…
Multi-sport
Governance

A US State Department spokesman said the country 'wished to discuss' with its allies a joint boycott of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, although stopped short of saying whether the country would be in…
Governance

State Department seeks "coordinated" response to human rights abuses
Winter Sports

Guy Horne, managing director and founder of specialist consultancy H&A Media, looks at viewing patterns for winter sports in China and asks how the IOC can win over new generations of fans in the country
Aquatic Sports
Events

Organisers of the Tokyo Olympics are to meet the international aquatics federation (Fina) this week about the federation's planned cancellation of a diving qualification event scheduled for later this…
Multi-sport
Governance

The International Olympic Committee has slashed the number of officials that will attend the Tokyo Olympics following a request by the Games' organisers
Multi-sport
Events

Fans from outside Japan will not be allowed to attend the Tokyo Olympics, organisers announced on Saturday
Multi-sport
Events

The International Olympic Committee and Uefa, European football’s governing body, have announced that they have jointly commissioned a new technical study to identify sustainable branding and signage s…
Events

The organisers of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games have committed to make them the first ever ‘climate-positive’ sports events.
Sponsorship & Marketing

The General Mills-owned Yoplait Kids yoghurt brand will sponsor Team GB for the next three Olympic Games
Events

Irish athlete Caradh O'Donovan says many athletes have not had appropriate training and qualification opportunities for this year's Olympics, and should have had a bigger say in the organisation of the postponed event
Sponsorship & Marketing

Camelot, the company which operates the UK’s National Lottery, has agreed sponsorship deals with the British Olympic Association and British Paralympic Association ahead of the rescheduled summer Olympic a…
Multi-sport
Events

The ceremony to launch the Olympic torch and the first section of the relay which follows will have no spectators due to ongoing concerns about Covid-19, the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee has said