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Outgoing IOC President Thomas Bach delivers a speech at an IOC session on Wednesday.

OLYMPICS

IOC names outgoing boss Bach as honorary president for life

Bach, a German lawyer and former Olympic fencing champion, took over in 2013 and immediately introduced wide-ranging reforms.

Outgoing International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach delivers a speech during the 144th IOC Session in Costa Navarino, Greece, ahead of an election to determine his successor.

OLYMPICS

Strange race to lead Olympic sports gets stranger

By Tariq Panja

Smear campaigns have targeted some of the leading contenders in the final days before the vote, scheduled for Thursday in Greece.

Akinori Nakayama, who has died at the age of 82, won 10 Olympic medals and gave his name to a rings maneuver still performed by the world's top gymnasts.

OLYMPICS / Gymnastics

Japanese gymnastics great Akinori Nakayama dies aged 82

By Shifa Jahan

Nakayama won 10 Olympic medals and gave his name to a rings maneuver still performed by the world's top gymnasts.

This combination picture shows candidates for the presidency of the IOC (from top left) Sebastian Coe, Kirsty Coventry, Johan Eliasch, Prince Feisal al-Hussein of Jordan, David Lappartient, Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr. and Morinari Watanabe speaking during a press conference following a presentation before fellow IOC members, in Lausanne on Jan. 30.

OLYMPICS

Mar 17, 2025

Heavyweight seven eye finish line in race to succeed Olympics chief

By Pirate IRWIN

Surprises from the electorate of 100-plus IOC members cannot be ruled out in the battle to become the most powerful figure in sport governance.

IOC President Thomas Bach speaks during an interview in Pylos, Greece, on Saturday.

OLYMPICS

Mar 16, 2025

IOC's Bach says Paris Games gender row was product of Russian fake news

By Karolos Grohmann

Bach, who is stepping down in June, said the IOC had needed to fight off many similar campaigns before and after the Paris Games.

Former FIFA Council member Moya Dodd believes developing the facilities needed to host the Olympics would have long-term benefits for India.

OLYMPICS

Mar 15, 2025

India's 2036 Games bid a chance to boost infrastructure, says sports governance expert

By Shrivathsa Sridhar

The world's most populous nation has never hosted the Olympics, though New Delhi staged the Asian Games in 1951 and 1982 as well as the Commonwealth Games in 2010.

The International Olympic Committee's headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland

OLYMPICS

Mar 14, 2025

Olympians make climate plea to IOC presidential candidates

By Nick Mulvenney

Seven candidates are vying to replace Thomas Bach as president in a ballot of IOC members at Costa Navarino, Greece, on March 20.

Akwasi Frimpong competes during a skeleton heat at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, on Feb. 15, 2018.

OLYMPICS / Skeleton

Mar 6, 2025

Skeleton racer Akwasi Frimpong wants to open doors for more African athletes

The 39-year-old broke barriers in 2018 when he and Nigerian Simidele Adeagbo became the first African skeleton racers to compete at an Olympics.

The Olympic flag flies at Centennial Park in Atlanta on Jan. 19.

OLYMPICS

Feb 27, 2025

World Boxing looks toward Olympics after provisional recognition from IOC

The Olympic body said World Boxing had met several key criteria to merit provisional recognition.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach speaks during the opening of an executive board meeting at the Olympic House in Lausanne, Switzerland, in December 2024.

OLYMPICS

Feb 27, 2025

IOC President Thomas Bach to resign as member after tenure as leader ends

The 71-year-old, who joined the IOC in 1991, could have remained a member until the age of 80.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Passengers that were on a morning train attacked by members of the Aum Shinrikyo group wait for medical assistance outside Kasumigaseki Station on March 20,1995.

The day a religious cult brought terror to Tokyo

By Alex K.T. Martin

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