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The Commonwealth Games has joined a growing list of sports bodies allowing athletes to protest against racism without fear of repercussions. Organizations such as FIFA and the NFL reacted similarly following the death of George Floyd, a black man who pleaded for air as a white police officer pressed a knee on his neck in Minneapolis.more

The Olympic Games in Tokyo must take place in 2021, or they will have to be abandoned altogether - says the head of the Belgian Olympic Committee Pierre-Olivier Beckers.more

Tokyo Olympic officials are incensed that the games emblem has been used in the cover design of a local magazine that combines the logo with the coronavirus.more

The head of the IOC's coordination commission for the Tokyo Olympics said Wednesday he disagrees with suggestions by some scientists and doctors that a vaccine for COVID-19 is needed to hold the games.more

The postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics will be cancelled if the coronavirus pandemic is not brought under control by next year, the organising committee's president said in comments published Tuesday (Apr 28).more

The scenario of the opening and closing ceremony of the Olympic Games in Tokyo will be changed - the organizers have informed. Both ceremonies will be more modest and are supposed to refer to the crisis that has hit the world due to the coronavirus pandemic.more

A Japanese professor of infectious disease says he is "very pessimistic" the postponed Tokyo Olympics can open in 15 months.more

France's former Olympic pole vault champion Renaud Lavillenie has found a way to keep his competitive juices flowing during the coronavirus lockdown by staging an "international home containment competition".more

The Tokyo Olympics will take place between 23 July and 8 August next year. The International Olympic Committee confirmed the news on Monday, which followed a meeting of the Tokyo 2020 organising committee.more

The clock that counts down to the opening of the Olympic Games has stopped in Tokyo. The day before, the IOC, in consultation with the Japanese government, postponed this major sporting event to next year due to a coronavirus pandemic.more

The Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games have been postponed until next year because of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic. The event, due to begin on 24 July, will now take place "no later than summer 2021".more

A decision will be made "very soon" on the future of this summer's Tokyo Games, according to Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the World Health Organization's health emergencies program.more

Usain Bolt's long time coach called on Friday for this year's Tokyo Olympics to be put off until 2021 as the Covid-19 Coronavirus continues to claim lives around the worldmore

In a lengthy interview, Thomas Bach, the president of the I.O.C., said that "cancellation is not on the agenda," but that it was too early to make a decision about postponing the Summer Games in Tokyo.more

The coronavirus paralyzes the sports calendar and calls into question the next great events.more

Tokyo Olympic organizers and the International Olympic Committee said Friday there is no "Plan B" for the 2020 Games.more

Japan's Olympic minister says the Tokyo 2020 Games could be postponed from the summer until later in the year amid fears over the coronavirus outbreak.more

Polish athletes are not panicking because of the outbreak of the new coronavirus, but they have serious concerns about the possibility of canceling the Olympic Games in Tokyo.more

FIFA president Gianni Infantino has refused to rule out postponing international football matches in response to the escalating global threat of the coronavirus.more

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said the body is fully committed to the Tokyo Olympics going ahead on schedule despite the ongoing threat of a coronavirus outbreak.more

Discussions surrounding proposals that London take over hosting the Tokyo 2020 Olympics lit up Twitter on Feb. 20, following a tweet by a candidate for the U.K. capital's mayor race that claimed the city would be ready if issues around the coronavirus outbreak made it necessary.more

A respected Japanese virologist on Wednesday said if the Tokyo Olympics were tomorrow, the games probably couldn't be held because of the fast-spreading virus from Wuhan, China.more

As per the German publication Suddeutsche Zeitung, she is willing to be the flag-bearer of Germany at the Tokyo Games' opening ceremony. "Tokyo is very important, it would be my third games," the 2016 Rio Olympics silver medallist Kerber stated. more

For the first time, a woman has been chosen to launch the torch relay for the 2020 Tokyo Games at the birthplace of the ancient Olympics in Greece.more

In two years, i.e. on February 4, 2022, the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing will begin. The organizers are finishing building new facilities, but they also want to take advantage of several of the 2008 summer games that took place in the Chinese capital.more