Olympic Games

Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelensky, has said his country is committed to bidding for a future edition of the winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Lars Haue-Pedersen, head of BCW Sports, looks at whether the IOC and IPC should consider the radical step of merging the Olympic and Paralympics Games to fully embrace the meaning of the new, expanded Olympic motto of: "Faster, Higher, Stronger – Together"

China Media Group, the Chinese state media company, has strengthened its hold on the Olympic broadcast rights in the country in a four-Games agreement that runs until the recently-awarded Brisbane 2032…

National Hockey League players will take part in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics after a deal was finally struck between the league, NHL Players Association, International Ice Hockey Federation, and International…

The list of Russian cities proposed to become host venues for the 2036 Olympic Games has expanded further, with the country’s President, Vladimir Putin, suggesting that the far eastern city of Vladivostok m…

Seth I. Kirby, lecturer in sport and leisure management in the School of Science and Technology at Nottingham Trent University, discusses the impact of climate change and the blistering summer heat on Tokyo 2020, and asks whether there is any hope that future Games organisers will take the crisis seriously

Jacques Rogge, the Belgian who was the eighth president of the International Olympic Committee, serving between 2001 and 2013, has died at age 79

Media group Discovery has revealed that more than 372 million people watched its coverage of the Tokyo Olympics in Europe, which represents a more than 10-per-cent increase on the 2018 winter Games in…

National Hockey League teams have reportedly been thrown into disarray by the league's ongoing uncertainty over whether there will be a break for the Beijing Winter Olympics during the 2021-22 season

Chinese Olympic sprinter Su Bingtian is capitalising on a successful Olympic Games by striking sponsorship deals with electronics firm Xiaomi and Chinese car manufacturer GAC Motor

NBCUniversal attracted its lowest-ever domestic audience for the Summer Olympics since first covering the global showpiece event in 1988, with the Tokyo Games drawing an average of 15.

UK public broadcaster the BBC has reported record online demand for its live and on-demand coverage of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, but Japan’s postponed event was the worst performing for linear television a…

Despite the challenges, Tokyo 2020 delivered on the Olympic promise of uniting people around the world through sport, says Kathryn Rhodes associate director, business development, at CSM Asia.

The International Cricket Council has confirmed its ambition to become an Olympic sport, targeting its inclusion in the LA 2028 programme

UK media regulator Ofcom has recommended a review into the listed events legislation

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach has said Japan will be reaping the benefits of its investment into the Tokyo 2020 Olympics for “generations to come” as he played down the costs to …