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 […]
Kuwait's Olympic ban will remain in force with ties between the Middle Eastern nation and the International Olympic Committee deteriorating, the IOC said.
IOC officials said on Wednesday they were confident next year's Olympics in Rio would not be compromised by the political and economic downturn in Brazil.
