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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

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