Japanese Olympic Committee head denies b...
Japan's Olympic Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda attends a press conference in Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 15, 2019. Takeda denied the corruption allegations related to winning bid of the 2020 Tokyo Olym
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Japanese Olympic Committee head denies b...
Japan's Olympic Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda attends a press conference in Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 15, 2019. Takeda denied the corruption allegations related to winning bid of the 2020 Tokyo Olym
Feature: New Winter Olympic sport unveil...
By Peter Mertz ASPEN, the United States, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- First it was halfpipe, then big air, then slopestyle. In 2019, Knuckle Huck is added to the X-Game Olympic entrees. This week at the 2019
Injury derails return of Rudisha, still ...
NAIROBI, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- Double Olympic 800m champion David Rudisha may have raced over the cliff, never to return to dominate the track competition again. Though, the 29-year-old is yet to announ
IOC suspends all discussions with India ...
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Friday announced that all the discussions between the organization and India over hosting Olympic events were suspended as the country refused to issue vi
Kenyans Chumba, Kiplagat seek Olympic co...
NAIROBI, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- Kenya athletes will be keen to details when competing at Sunday's Tokyo Marathon as they believe it will serve as a dry run for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.Leading the p
Jenny Lang cautious about China's title ...
BEIJING, March 1 (Xinhua) -- It will be very difficult for the Chinese women's volleyball team to defend its Olympic title at next year's Tokyo Games, but it's not "a mission impossible", according t
Olympic champ Jamanka leads Germany's 2-...
OTTAWA, March 3 (Xinhua) -- Olympic champion Mariama Jamanka of Germany added the world two-women's bobsled championship to her medal collection on Sunday at the Whistler Sliding Centre in Canada. Ja
Controversial Sheikh re-elected as Asian...
Kuwait's Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah was re-elected president of the powerful Olympic Council of Asia on Sunday despite forgery charges that forced him to step aside from the International Olympic
Eight Kenyan athletes to be funded by IO...
NAIROBI, March 4 (Xinhua) -- Continental Cup 800m champion Emmanuel Korir has been named among the eight Kenyan athletes who will receive funding from International Olympic Committee (IOC) to prepare
Zhangjiakou's 2022 Winter Olympic legacy...
SHIJIAZHUANG, China, March 5 (Xinhua) -- The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games competition venues and athletes' village located in the Zhangjiakou area will be converted into an Olympic Park in a bid
Slalom Olympic champion Frida Hansdotter...
Swedish slalom Olympic gold medallist Frida Hansdotter will retire after this month's World Cup finals, she announced on Wednesday. The 33-year-old who denied Mikaela Shiffrin at the 2018 Olympic Win
Paris 2024 rejects Olympic pleas by kara...
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Friday quashed the hopes of karate and squash which had kept lobbying for inclusion in the 2024 Games even after Paris organizers had announced its roster
Commemorative Tokyo 2020 stamps go on sa...
Stamps celebrating the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games went on sale on Tuesday, 500 days before the start of the summer showpiece. The stamps, released by Japan Post Co., feature the Olympic
Record-breaking 200 delegations to parti...
ABU DHABI, March 13 (Xinhua) -- There will be 200 delegations participating in the upcoming Special Olympic Games Abu Dhabi 2019, a new Special Olympic Games record, among several others. The organiz
Record-breaking 200 delegations to parti...
There will be 200 delegations participating in the upcoming Special Olympic Games Abu Dhabi 2019, a new Special Olympic Games record, among several others. The organizing committee announced the news
Japan's corruption-linked Olympic chief ...
The president of the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) and International Olympic Committee (IOC) marketing chair, resigned from both posts, Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said Tuesday. Tsunekazu Takeda,
Japan's corruption-linked Olympic chief ...
TOKYO, March 19 (Xinhua) -- The president of the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) Tsunekazu Takeda on Tuesday said he would resign from both that post and as a member of the International Olympic Com
Tokyo unveils 2020 Olympic torch with ch...
TOKYO, March 20 (Xinhua) -- The 2020 Tokyo Olympic committee unveiled the official relay torch for the Games today, featuring Japan's iconic cherry blossoms. The unveiling came exactly one year befor
Olympic champion Ye dominates women's 20...
QINGDAO, China, March 25 (Xinhua) -- Olympic champion Ye Shiwen won the gold medal of the women's 200m individual medley with ease in two minutes and 9.24 seconds at the National Swimming Championshi
First Olympic women’s aerials champion C...
Lina Cheryazova, the first woman to win an Olympic aerials skiing gold medal, has died. She was 50. Officials in the Russian city of Novosibirsk, where Cheryazova was living for the last two decades,