“The contract calls for the Games to be held within 2020. That could be interpreted as allowing a postponement,” Seiko Hashimoto said in response to a lawmaker’s question in parliament
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The International Olympic Committee is committed to the Tokyo Olympics going ahead on schedule this summer in spite of fears around the outbreak of the coronavirus, its president, Thomas Bach, says.
Yoshiro Mori, the president of the 2020 Olympic organising committee, said this at the start of a meeting with members of the International Olympics Committee and Tokyo’s city government
International Olympic Committee President, Thomas Bach, will rekindle his hey day in fencing as he is scheduled to feature in an exhibition match as part of programmes lined up for his two-day visit to Nigeria.
The International Olympic Committee has announced plans to move the Tokyo 2020 marathon and race walking events over 800km south of Japan’s capital.
The IOC voted unanimously to implement a recommendation of its executive board to oust troubled AIBA from the Tokyo 2020 Games over issues surrounding its finances and governance and suspend the body until the issues are resolved
Azeri weightlifter Valentin Hristov was stripped of his 2012 Olympics 56-kg bronze medal on Friday after he was one of three athletes to test positive for banned substances in re-tests conducted by the International Olympic Committee.
Succour has come the way of 11 Nigerian athletes ahead of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo after they were captured in the latest International Olympic Committee scholarship scheme.
The International Olympic Committee has announced that it will inaugurate its new headquarters in Lausanne on this year’s Olympic Day.
The price tag keeps soaring for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics despite local organizers and the International Olympic Committee saying that spending is being cut.
The fourth edition of the summer version of the Youth Olympic Games of 2022 will be held in the Senegalese capital city of Dakar, it has been officially confirmed.
Nigeria have lost the hosting rights for the 4th Summer Youth Olympic Games in 2022 to Senegal, which submitted a better proposal.
Visa Inc, a long-standing worldwide sponsor of the Olympic Games and supporter of the Olympic Movement, and the International Olympic Committee on Thursday announced an extension to Visa’s Olympic sponsorship through 2032.
At a video presentation held in Abuja on Sunday, the Nigerian delegation comprising the Minister of Youth and Sports, Barrister Solomon Dalung; the Permanent Secretar, Adesola Olusade; the Nigeria Olympic Committee President, Engr Habu Gumel; officials of the Ministry of Youth and Sports; and the Federal Capital Territory, Dalung assured the visiting members of the IOC that Abuja will be ready to host the games if Nigeria gets the nod.
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The expulsion was contained in a statement by the IOC
The International Olympic Committee said on Monday it was going to stand its ground on its decision on the athletes.
IOC said on Monday that athletes remain barred as Russia’s drugs conspiracy continued to reverberate just days from the opening ceremony
The decision came a week after the IOC banned Russia from next year’s Pyeongchang Winter Olympics for what it called “unprecedented systematic manipulation” of the anti-doping system.
“The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has registered 22 appeals filed by Russian athletes against decisions taken by the Disciplinary Commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC DC),” the court said in a statement