Organizers to build recovery monuments for disaster-hit areas
The Tokyo Games organizing committee said Wednesday it will oversee construction of three Olympic monuments made out of materials recycled from temporary housing provided in the wake of the March ...
Bolt expecting high-voltage games in Tokyo
Approaching one year to go until the Tokyo Olympics, double individual world record holder and now-retired Jamaican sprint legend Usain Bolt said he is thrilled to be coming to Japan for the sporting extravaganza, even if he is no longer considered "the fastest man ...
Ukraine's new president has asked officials to consider a bid to host the Olympics, even with the economy still damaged by years of political turmoil. Former comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who was elected president in April, said Tuesday there should be a national plan to build ...
The recycled metal needed to produce next summer's 5,000 Olympic and Paralympic medals has been collected and refined, the Tokyo Games organizing committee said Wednesday. The collection campaign for obsolete mobile phones and other small electronic devices ran from April 2017 through this past March. ...
British sports chief Liz Nicholl urges Japan to grasp opportunity of hosting Olympics
One of the key architects of Britain's recent Olympic success has urged Japan's athletes to harness the "hugely powerful effect" of performing in front of their home crowd at the Tokyo Games next year. Liz Nicholl, who as head of UK Sport drove Team GB ...
Sergei Bubka, Alexander Popov deny Rio vote-buying allegations
Olympic gold medalists Sergei Bubka and Alexander Popov have denied claims made in a Brazilian court they were paid to vote for Rio de Janeiro's winning bid to host the 2016 Summer Games. The International Olympic Committee said Friday its ethics commission has contacted both ...
3.2 million tickets sold in first phase for 2020 Tokyo Olympics
Roughly 3.2 million tickets were sold in the first phase of ticket sales for next year's Tokyo Olympics, the Tokyo 2020 organizing committee said Friday. Japan residents who won the right to purchases tickets through the first-phase ticket lottery were required to complete their purchases ...
A jailed former governor of Rio de Janeiro state told a judge on Thursday that he paid about $2 million for the votes of International Olympic Committee members to award the Brazilian city the 2016 Summer Games. Sergio Cabral said he paid $1.5 million in ...
Second 2020 Tokyo Olympics ticket lottery to be held in August after millions were left disappointed
The lottery will mainly be for those who failed to win any tickets in the first one, which was held on June 20.
New National Stadium on track for Dec. 21 christening
Members of the press were invited on Wednesday to visit the new National Stadium, the Olympic and Paralympic Village and other venues that will host events during the Tokyo 2020 Games. Ninety percent of the construction of the new National Stadium has been completed, according ...
The test events for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics started in full swing on Thursday as the Pentathlon World Cup Final opened as the games' first official dress rehearsal of the year. The four-day modern pentathlon competition opened at Tokyo's Musashino Forest Sport Plaza, ...
Yamashita will replace Tsunekazu Takeda who retired as JOC president amid an investigation over alleged bribery during Tokyo’s bid to host the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
