Russia's track and field athletes should not be allowed to compete in the Rio Olympics as the country cannot prove it is compliant with the doping rule.
TOKYO (Reuters) – Undeterred by Tokyo’s chaotic preparations to stage the 2020 Olympic Games, Japan’s Aichi Prefecture will bid to stage the 2026 Asian Games, the region’s governor said on Monday. Aichi will submit an application to the Japanese Olympic Committee to host the event, Kyodo News reported Hideaki Omura as saying on Monday. “As […]
Bach said on Wednesday. In a New Year’s message published on the International Olympic Committee website (www.olympic.org), the IOC president looked forward to the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro but warned of big challenges ahead. “When Olympic Agenda 2020 was adopted one year ago, my message to everyone in the Olympic Movement was: […]
TOKYO (Reuters) – The 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games will likely boost Japan’s economy by 0.2-0.3 of a percentage point on average each year until 2018, offsetting some of the pain from another sales tax hike planned in 2017, the Bank of Japan said on Monday. The estimate by the central bank, made on request by […]
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian swimming received some certainty for the next Olympic cycle with the decision to extend head coach Jacco Verhaeren’s contract until the 2020 Games in Tokyo on Thursday. The 46-year-old Dutchman took over as head coach in 2013, a year after the Australian team slumped to their worst haul in the pool […]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – It will be no more than an exhibition sport; it’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity; it will be awesome; let’s wait and see how it feels once you get there. These are among the wide ranging responses from top players as they prepare for golf’s return to the Olympics at next year’s Rio […]
