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Tokyo city authorities have trouble recruiting so-called urban volunteers for the Olympics in 2020. It was planned that there would be 30,000 of them, but so far only six thousand people have sent applications. A total of 110,000 volunteers will work during the Olympics.more

With boxing's Olympic future on the line, Serik Konakbayev will fight to save his sport.more

In Japan, a watchdog designed for the needs of the Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo 2020 was presented. Machine tests will take place at the end of November - Kyodo agency said.more

The organizers of the Summer Games in Tokyo 2020 announced that for one and a half years the campaign managed to collect 100 percent of bronze - 2,700 kg for medals, which will be made of metals obtained from waste using the recycling method. There is still a shortage of gold and silver from electronic waste.more

During the Winter Olympics and Paralympics in Beijing in 2022, athletes will be able to regain their strength and benefit from the help of a specially launched center of traditional Chinese medicine. According to the daily "Beijing Daily", the complex is to be put into operation as early as 2020.more

Polish national team until 21 years defeated Georgia 3-0 and will play in playoffs for promotion to next year's European Championship. Young Polish footballers have yet another chance to go to the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2020.more

Stockholm's bid to host the 2026 Winter Olympics is at risk only three days after the IOC formally approved the city among three candidates.more

The IOC executive board has nominated three bids for the 2026 Winter Olympics and dropped a fourth from Turkey. The three remaining bids are Calgary, Stockholm and a multi-city Italian bid focusing on Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo.more

Warta's Canadian swimmer Tomasz Kaczor took second place in C1 600 m competition in Chinese Linyi in super cup competition. This is a new event, of a commercial nature, organized by the International Canoe Federation.more

Indonesia is targeting a possible bid for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games, according to 2018 Asian Games Organising Committee President Erick Thohir.more

Olympic champion from Seoul (1988) in German decathlon Christian Schenk admitted to the use of doping. Information revealed in a biography that will be released in September.more

Dwójka kanadyjkarzy Mateusz Kamiński, Vincent Słomiński na dystansie 1 000 m oraz Tomasz Kaczor i Magda Stanny w jedynkach na 500 m zakwalifikowali się do finałów mistrzostw świata rozgrywanych w Portugalii.more

Canoeaker AZS AWF Gorzów Anna Puławska won the race in the first 500 meters in the world championship in the Portuguese Montemor. In the morning session of the first day of competition, Polish canoeists showed up on the good side.more

Beijing 2022 has launched a global design competition for the mascots of the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, inviting people from around the world to come up with original designs for these important ambassadors of the Games.more

Hundreds of thousands of Tokyo 2020 athletes, staff and reporters will be scanned by cutting-edge facial recognition technology in an Olympic Games first, organisers said Tuesday (Aug 7).more

Forget Instagrams of hotel infinity pools. No amount of filters can top nature, as this extraordinary new video attests. The footage, captured by Iain Miller of Unique Ascent, was shot in a sea cave beneath Owey Island off the coast of Co. Donegal last weekend.more

A group of kayakers had something of a shock when a shark approached them off the coast of the Isle of Man. more

Usain Bolt's hopes of regaining one of his Olympic gold medals have been killed off after Jamaican relay team-mate Nesta Carter lost his appeal against a failed drugs test. more

Calgary could be headed for a city-wide plebiscite on the Olympics as early as this fall, provided a potential bid survives a June vote by council on the financial implications of hosting the 2026 Winter Games.more

27-year-old alpine Igor Sikorski (Start Bielsko-Biała) became the first Polish medalist of the Paralympic Games in Pyongsang. He finished third in the giant slalom in a sitting position.more

In Pjongchang, the torch of the 12th Winter Paralympic Games flared. The traditional formula for the opening of the event was spoken by the President of South Korea Moon Jae-in. By 18 March, 567 competitors from 49 countries will compete in 80 competitions, including an eight-man representation of Poland.more

During today's opening ceremony of the Paralympic Winter Games in Pyongsang, athletes from two Korean countries will march separately - said the chairman of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Andrew Parsons.more

Andreas Stjernen from Norway is considering to end his ski jumping career after the season.more

Olympic champion in figure skating Alina Zagitowa, who in May will finish just 16 years, invented a sweet prize for the triumph in Pyongchang - she allowed herself to eat a portion of ice cream. In Korea, she won the first gold medal for Olympians from Russia.more

The record number of medals won by Norway during the Pyongyang Games does not translate into player bonuses because the Olympic Committee there (SAI) does not award financial prizes for such successes.more