All Olympics articles – Page 3
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Tokyo 2020 adds 12 women to executive board to promote gender equality
Tokyo 2020 has appointed 12 women to its executive board, bringing the total number of women in the organizing committee’s board to 19, namely 42 percent of the total. The move follows the recent sexism scandal that led to the resignation of the former president of the committee, Yoshiro Mori, ...
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Turin bids to host the 2025 Winter Special Olympics
Turin is bidding to host the 2025 Special Olympics World Winter Games in 2025, one year before the Italian cities of Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo are due to host the regular 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. Turin’s candidacy has been officially presented by the Italian government, the Piedmont region, ...
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Brisbane is the frontrunner to host the 2032 Olympics
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced that it will start more detailed and exclusive discussions with the Brisbane 2032 Committee and the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) about their potential to host the Olympic Games in 2032. Australia previously held the Summer Olympics in Melbourne in 1956, and Sydney in ...
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Tokyo 2020 appoints new female president
Seiko Hashimoto, a former Japanese minister and seven-time Olympian, has been appointed as the new president of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games organizing committee. She replaces the 83-year-old former president, Yoshiro Mori, who quit earlier this month after causing a firestorm of critiques internationally for comments on female ...
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WFSGI webinar about Rule 40 on Feb. 25
The World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) is inviting all interested parties in the sector to register for a webinar on Feb. 25 about the guidelines to be followed for advertising and marketing activities around the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. The conference will be held jointly with the ...
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The IOC releases the first Tokyo 2020 “playbook” for safe Games
The International Olympic Committee (IOC), the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee (Tokyo 2020) have published the first of a series of ”Playbooks” for the Olympic Games, a resource that outlines the responsibilities of key stakeholders in ensuring safe and successful events this summer. This first ...
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Budapest considers hosting the 2032 Olympics
The Hungarian Olympic Committee has established a committee to assess the feasibility of staging the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games in the country’s capital city. Budapest previously bid in 1916, 1920, 1936, 1944 and 1960, but ultimately never hosted the Games. Budapest also ran for the 2024 Olympics but pulled ...
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IOC: No "Plan B" for the Tokyo Olympics
Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, told Kyodo News on Jan. 21 that there is “no plan B” for the Olympic Games in Tokyo, in spite of a spike in Covid-19 cases in Japan. He said he had no reason to believe that they will not open on ...
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The UN should rule on the Tokyo Games, former IOC exec suggests
Kevan Gosper, a former International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice-president, has suggested that the United Nations (UN) might be involved in deciding whether or not the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games should ultimately take place. The ongoing coronavirus pandemic and its recent resurgence in many countries, Japan included, is ...
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Prioritizing Covid-19 vaccine for athletes may ensure Tokyo Games take place
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games were postponed to July-August 2021, but the recent resurgence of Covid-19 cases, in Japan as elsewhere, is leaving uncertainty over the actual chances that the event will take place. According to Dick Pound, a senior member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), prioritizing ...
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Survey finds that 80% of Japanese people want Tokyo 2020 postponed or cancelled
According to a telephone poll by Kyodo News, around 80 percent of Japanese people would like this year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo to be postponed or even cancelled. Japan is currently struggling with a resurgence of Covid-19 cases. The cities of Tokyo, Saitama, Kanagawa, and Chiba entered into ...
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The Paris 2024 Olympics will be gender-equal, featuring more action sports
The executive board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has ratified the program for the Paris 2024 Olympics, confirming among others that they will include break-dancing as a sport for the first time ever. Surfing, climbing, and skateboarding, which were proposed as additional sports by the Paris 2024 organizing ...
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Anta launches Olympic collection
Anta Sports has launched a collection of licensed sportswear for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics. The collection was presented in Shanghai on July 27. The Chinese sportswear firm was appointed the official sports apparel partner of Beijing 2022 in 2017, and also has an agreement with the International ...
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News briefsOn partners with Swiss Olympic
On Running, the Swiss brand specializing in performance running shoes and apparel, will be kitting out the Swiss delegations to Olympic Games, Youth Olympic Games and all other Olympic missions until 2028, including at next year’s Games in Tokyo. The Tokyo Olympics, originally scheduled to take place in 2020, were ...
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A global “Summer Festival of Athlete Experiences” online
The International Olympic Committee (IOC), the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and Airbnb, which is an Olympic Games partner, have launched “a summer festival of Olympian & Paralympian online experiences.” The initiative is meant to somehow make up for the postponement of the Olympic and Paralympic Tokyo 2020 Games, which will ...
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Tokyo to cut costs on postponed Olympics
(updated) Two-thirds of the japanese companies that were planned to be a sponsor of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games are having second thoughts about maintaining their commitment until next year, according to the Japanese TV channel NHK. The survey was aired after members of the organizing committee of the Games ...
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Tokyo Olympics are postponed, other sports events cancelled
(Updated on March 24) It’s now official. The Olympic Games will not be held in Tokyo this summer. A joint statement made by the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, and the Prime Minister of Japan, Abe Shinzo, said that they will have to be rescheduled “to ...
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