IOC wants to keep men's marathon on final day of 2020 Games, John Coates says
The International Olympic Committee wants to keep the men's marathon on the final day of the 2020 Tokyo Games and is considering flying athletes from Sapporo, where the race will be held, to the capital for the closing ceremony, John Coates, chairman of the ...
Tokyo confirms it will hold vote for governor and assembly by-elections on July 5
Tokyo will hold a gubernatorial election on July 5 next year, ahead of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games on July 24, the capital's election committee announced Wednesday. Gov. Yuriko Koike's term ends July 30 next year, and election law stipulates that gubernatorial elections ...
The second phase of next summer's Tokyo Olympics ticket lottery began for residents of Japan on Wednesday, with over one million tickets available for nearly all the Olympic events including the opening and closing ceremonies. Tickets for boxing, previously omitted due to issues surrounding the ...
2020 races move north to Sapporo as cooler heads prevail
"It's like you're submerged underwater, but the water is boiling, and you're kind of halfway cooked" — that's how one distance runner described conditions at the women's marathon at the 2019 World Athletics Championship in Doha on Sept. 27-28. Even though the marathon started at ...
Japanese Foreign Ministry adds Korean-language explanation for Rising Sun flag to website
The Foreign Ministry has added a Korean-language explanation of the Rising Sun flag to its website, a move aimed at addressing the backlash over the decision not to ban it at venues for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. The move came Friday in the ...
The remains of at least 187 people dating back to the early 1900s or before were retrieved from the site of the new National Stadium in Shinjuku Ward before construction began, according to officials from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. The site used to be the ...
Details announced for final 2020 lotto
The second and final lottery for Japanese residents to buy tickets to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will commence on Nov. 13, the organizing committee announced Friday. Applications will be accepted from the morning until 11:59 a.m. on Nov. 26. The lottery results will be announced ...
Tokyo 2020 chief Yoshiro Mori expects big changes to marathon schedule
Tokyo Games organizing committee chief Yoshiro Mori said Thursday he expects to see big changes to the men's marathon schedule following the International Olympic Committee's decision to move the road races to Sapporo. "It's impossible (to hold the men's marathon on Aug. 9) as there ...
Election for Tokyo governor looks set for July 5, three weeks before Olympics
The Election Administration Commission hopes to minimize the impact from the election on the quadrennial sporting event, sources said.
The Japan Football Association unveiled a new national team uniform on Wednesday, breaking from tradition with a patterned shirt incorporating five shades of blue representing different hues of the sky. The "Clear Sky Japan" kit was developed by Adidas Japan K.K. for representative sides including ...
Kengo Kuma, designer of new National Stadium, laments Tokyo Olympic marathon's move north
The designer of the new National Stadium, the main venue for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, expressed his remorse over the change of venue for the Olympic marathon events from the capital to Sapporo. The venue change was "very regrettable," Kengo Kuma said ...
JAAF officials regret IOC's decision to move marathon, race walk events to Sapporo
"Athlete first" is a magical phrase. When you use it, people will be convinced. Well, maybe it doesn't always work, like for some of the Japan Association of Athletics Federations executives. The development committee of the sport's governing body in the country held a news conference ...
