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Sadiq Khan said he will look to bring the Olympic and Paralympic Games back to London if he is re-elected as the capital’s mayor.more

Kane Tanaka, a 118-year-old woman from this southwest Japan city who has been certified by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest living person, will give up her position in the Olympic torch relay, it has been learned.more

Organizers of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics may push back the decision on how many fans can attend until June as surging coronavirus cases continue to wreak havoc on preparations, Japanese media reported Wednesday.more

A senior Japanese ruling party official said on Thursday that cancelling this year's Olympic Games could be an option if coronavirus infections continue to rise.more

A vast majority of 72 percent of Japanese want the Tokyo Olympics scheduled for this summer to be postponed or canceled again. The fear of another wave of corona infections is the reason for this, Kyodo News reports after a survey.more

Tokyo Olympic organisers plan to prepare 300 hotel rooms for athletes who test positive for the coronavirus at this summer’s Games but show no or minor symptoms of COVID-19, Kyodo news agency said on Sunday.more

North Korea’s sports ministry said on Tuesday that it will not participate in the Tokyo Olympics this year to protect its athletes amid the coronavirus pandemic.more

According to the survey, 54 percent. Canadians are in favor of a boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics over allegations of human rights violations by China, reports the Hong Kong daily South China Morning Post.more

A worsening relationship between North and South Korea is not the only hurdle the rivals will need to overcome to win the bid, which aims to promote "world peace through sports."more

The Tokyo Summer Olympics has survived being postponed, a mountain of scandal and bad publicity. Now comes the real challenge: pulling off the world’s biggest sporting event safely in the middle of a pandemic.more

The Olympic Fire relay started today in Fukushima Prefecture in the northeast of Japan. The fire will travel through the country for 121 days before attending the Tokyo Olympics on July 23, postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.more

Japan’s top telecommunications company is getting 7.3 billion yen — about $96 million — in taxpayer money to design mobile tracking software to curb the spread of coronavirus infections during the Tokyo Olympics.more

Airbnb Inc. is being asked to drop its sponsorship connections to next year's Beijing's Winter Olympics by a coalition of 150 human-rights campaigners.more

No international fans will be permitted at the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics this summer because of concerns over the coronavirus pandemic. Japanese authorities told the Olympic and Paralympic committees it was "highly unlikely" that entry to the country could be guaranteed.more

The head of the Tokyo Olympics Organizing Committee denied on Thursday widespread reports that Japan had decided already to bar foreign spectators from the Summer Games.more

The oldest inhabitant of the globe, 118-year-old Japanese Kane Tanaka maintains her willingness to participate in the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Fire relay. Not only does she want to cover her distance in a wheelchair, which she uses every day, but also take the last few steps.more

On February 22, Aleksander Doba died - it was announced today on the official Facebook profile of the Polish canoeist and traveler. In 2010 and again in 2013 he kayaked across the Atlantic Ocean westward under his own power. more

The Japanese government has vehemently denied a story that it has privately concluded that this summer’s Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo are doomed, calling them “categorically untrue”.more

Sir Keith Mills, the deputy chairman of the London Organising Committee for the 2012 Olympic Games, is unconvinced that the delayed Tokyo Olympics will take place.more

Japanese cabinet minister Taro Kono has admitted a decision on the holding of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics "could go either way" as the coronavirus pandemic continues to leave doubts hanging over the Games.more

About 80% of people in Japan say this year's Tokyo Olympics should be cancelled or delayed as worries mount about a record surge in coronavirus cases across the country, a Kyodo News poll showed on Sunday.more

Russia's ban from all major sporting events after a doping scandal has been cut to two years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.more

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has been banned from attending next year's postponed Olympic Games in Tokyo as part of a series of provisional International Olympic Committee (IOC) measures against the country's National Olympic Committee (NOC).more

The Olympic Symbol have been reinstalled at Odaiba Marine Park water area to its original location today after going through maintenance and safety inspection earlier in August. It made its way to the Tokyo Bay on a sunny morning via a barge and has been transported from the facility in Yokohama where it was originally built.more

The President of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach, after the meeting, incl. with the Prime Minister of Japan, Yoshihide Suga, expressed the conviction that despite the pandemic, next year's summer games will be held in Tokyo.more