Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Wednesday that the Tokyo Olympics may not take place next year unless the coronavirus pandemic is contained.
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Canada have said they will not compete at the Olympic and Paralympic Games should they be held this year as other nations also plan for a one-year postponement of Tokyo 2020.
The International Olympic Committee continues to come under pressure to postpone the 2020 Tokyo Games due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The International Olympic Committee has ruled out staging the Tokyo Games behind closed doors because it would be anathema to the whole philosophy of a movement that seeks to bring people across the globe together in celebration of sport.
The IOC announced a plan earlier this month to move the marathon and race walking events to the northern island of Hokkaido due to concerns about heat in Tokyo next summer.
Speaking at the Nigeria Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition in Abuja, Eunisell’s Group Managing Director, Chika Ikenga, said this will help the government achieve its local content programme objectives.
A prosecution witness, Ibinabo Micheal-West, on Monday, told a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, that the Niger Delta Development Commission recovered over N100 billion from International Oil companies.
The International Olympic Committee announced the safeguarding of boxing at next year’s Tokyo Games but its executive board has recommended the suspension of the International Boxing Association.
Japanese Olympic Committee president Tsunekazu Takeda said on Tuesday he would resign in June amid an alleged bribery case related to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
The new Secretary-General, Nigeria Olympic Committee, Olabanji Oladapo, has said that cooperation with the Ministry of Sports would ensure that the country present the best athletes for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
IWF said on Sunday in a statement that Ukraine’s Oleksiy Torokhtiy could now be stripped of the Olympic title he won in the 105kg category in London.
The technological giants will remain a top sponsor until the 2028 Los Angeles Games, the world governing body said on Tuesday.
IOC published an interview with the Nigerian on its official website and lauded the Oyo State-born athlete for etching his name in the annals of world table tennis history in Brazil.
Baumann, who is a member of the International Olympic Committee, was a prominent figure within global sport holding multiple positions.
The body said: “Basketball has lost a leader, an advocate and a friend and our thoughts are with Patrick’s wife and two children at this tragic time.”
Nigeria have lost the hosting rights for the 4th Summer Youth Olympic Games in 2022 to Senegal, which submitted a better proposal.
Kuwait’s national Olympic committee has been banned since October 2015 after the government was accused of interference with a new sports law.
The leader of the delegation and Associate Director for the 2022 Youth Olympic Games, Antoine Goetschy, made the remark when the four-man delegation paid a courtesy call on the Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung, in his office at the National Stadium Abuja on Tuesday.
South Korean SBS TV claimed that Samsung lobbied the IOC officials to get them vote for Pyeongchang as the host city for 2018 in return for various marketing and sponsorship contracts.
Russians competed as neutrals at the Games after the IOC suspended the country’s Olympic Committee in December, saying it had found evidence of an “unprecedented systematic manipulation” of the anti-doping system.