Since then, the 2032 Games have been awarded to Brisbane, Australia, and Bach told AFP in an interview at IOC headquarters on Friday that there were “double-digit” numbers of countries in the running for 2036. “We have never been in such a favourable position. We have never seen such a high interest in hosting the …
“The brilliant Jakarta sun shone fiercely on the arena in the Senajan stadium here this afternoon but it could not dim India’s great moment of triumph in the Asian Games football championship with India’s ascending football star long in eclipse after the success in New Delhi in 1951 reaching its zenith with a victory over …
World Athletics has broken 128 years of Olympic tradition by announcing that it will become the first international sports federation to award prize money to Olympic athletes. Starting at the Paris Olympics, track and field athletes who win gold will receive $50,000, with plans to extend cash prizes to silver and bronze medal winners at …
The International Olympic Committee on Wednesday said it needs to find a suitable new international boxing body by early next year or else risk boxing dropping out of the Olympics for the Los Angeles Games in 2028. The IOC stripped the International Boxing Association of the right to run the Olympic boxing tournaments in Tokyo …
The International Boxing Association (IBA) said on Wednesday it is analysing a decision by global sport’s top court to dismiss its appeal against the withdrawal of its Olympic recognition and it may take the case to the Swiss Federal Tribunal. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided in June to strip the IBA of recognition over …
But they will be competing as individual neutral athletes (AINs) without their flags, anthems and emblems. They will also need to pass a vetting process to make sure they meet certain IOC eligibility criteria. What criteria must these athletes meet? In order to be cleared to compete in Paris, Russian and Belarusian athletes must not …
Olympic great and Australian Sports Commission chief Kieren Perkins says “someone will die” if a multi-sport event that he called “borderline criminal” and which allows banned performance-enhancing substances goes ahead. The Enhanced Games, proposed by Australian entrepreneur and London-based Aron D’Souza, will allow athletes to use pharmacological or technological help, including substances banned by the …
Senior International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice-president John Coates is unsure how many Russians will compete as neutral athletes at the Paris Games, but thinks reports it might be as low as 40 could be close to the mark. Under sanctions put in place because of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, for which Belarus acted …
For the first time, the Olympics would be partnering with a beer company AB InBev, said the International Olympic Committee (IOC) descended on a London bar earlier in January to make a historic announcement, reported CNN. The sponsorship deal with AB InBev met with beaming smiles in a crowded room, as IOC President Thomas Bach …
Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva has been banned from the sport until 2025 after it was found she committed an anti-doping rule violation, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said Monday. Valieva, who with the Russian Olympic Committee earned gold in the team event at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, will be stripped of …