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
Kane Tanaka, 117, a woman from this southwest Japan city, holds the Guinness World Record for the oldest living person. To cap off her achievements, she's listed on the lineup for the Tokyo Olympic torch relay, and aiming to participate in May 2021.more
A "health base" is set to be established at the Athletes' Village for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in case of potential COVID-19 infection.more
DOSB President Alfons Hörmann believes that the Olympic Games will be held in Tokyo, but considers an exclusion of spectators from other countries to be conceivable.more
Britain and the United States on Monday condemned what they said were a litany of malicious cyberattacks orchestrated by Russian military intelligence, including attempts to disrupt next year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo.more
Tokyo Olympics: organizers want to save 240 million eurosTokyo (AFP) Japanese organizers of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, postponed to the summer of 2021 due to the coronavirus, announced Wednesday they are targeting 30 billion yen (241 million euros) in savings through various measures of "simplification" and " optimization "already established to reduce the wings of the event.more
The organizers of next year's Olympic Games in Tokyo want to draw attention to the rights of LGBTQ people. In October, the Pride House will open in the Japanese capital, a meeting place for, among others homosexual and transgender athletes.more
The Tokyo Olympics are already the most expensive summers ever, and costs are set to rise further, according to a study from the University of Oxford.more
Japan is making an aggressive move to grab enough coronavirus vaccine to inoculate its population four times over, a push the government hopes will instil confidence that it can host a delayed summer Olympics next year.more
A programme that saw more than two-thirds of 5,000 urine and blood samples taken at London 2012 re-analysed to test for banned performance-enhancing drugs, leading to an Olympic record number of disqualifications, has sent a clear message that athletes who have cheated can never rest comfortably, it has been claimed.more
The Olympics and Paralympics could be held in front of "a limited number of spectators" due to Covid-19, says Tokyo 2020 chief executive Toshiro Muto.more
An original drawing of the Olympic rings sketched by Baron Pierre de Coubertin is set to go up for auction in Cannes next Sunday (July 26) and is estimated to sell for as much as €100,000.more
A new survey polling Japanese residents has found that 77 per cent of those questioned believe that the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics "cannot be held" next year.more
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
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
