The final of the men's soccer final at the 2020 Tokyo Games could be moved from the new national stadium, a source said Thursday. The bid plan had the soccer final during the day and athletics in the evening of Aug. 8 at the venue. ...
Kasumigaseki Country Club will be stripped of hosting the Tokyo 2020 Olympic golf tournament if it does not allow women to become full members, the International Olympic Committee warned on Thursday. "At some point there has to be a cut-off," IOC Vice President John Coates ...
At the request of France, Tokyo prosecutors have questioned Japanese Olympic Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda and others on a voluntary basis over allegations that dubious payments were made by the bid team for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. Takeda told reporters on Wednesday that ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is confident that the new National Stadium will provide an iconic stage for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, he said at the groundbreaking ceremony Sunday. The main construction work on the stadium in Shinjuku Ward began Dec. 1, about 14 ...
Tokyo 2020 Olympic organizers are entertaining the idea that venues built for the games could be financed and run by private-sector companies. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government, central government and Tokyo 2020 organizing committee have vowed to cut costs for the games, having announced a budget ...
The International Olympic Committee's Coordination Commission head joins a teleconference over a plan to switch three venues for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics.
The Japanese Olympic Committee on Friday disclosed the results of investigations into allegedly dubious payments Tokyo's bidding team made to a consultancy to win the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. JOC President Tsunekazu Takeda told a meeting of entities involved in preparations for the 2020 Olympics that ...
Japan's 2004 Athens Olympic hammer throw champion Koji Murofushi on Saturday welcomed the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) decision to uphold its ban of Russia's track and field team over allegations of doping. The move prevents Russia's athletes from competing in track and field ...
Japanese Olympic Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda said it was his call to approve the more than $2 million payment to Singaporean consulting firm Black Tidings in connection with Tokyo's winning bid to host the 2020 Games. "I approved it in the end," Takeda said Monday ...
The head of Tokyo's 2020 Olympics bid team on Thursday said he knew nothing about a multimillion-dollar payment made to a Singaporean firm linked to a disgraced athletics official despite being tasked with overseeing other consulting contracts. A day after Japan Olympic Committee President Tsunekazu ...
A South Korean court has found Japanese swimmer Naoya Tomita guilty of stealing a camera at the Incheon Asian Games in September last year. The district court in Incheon fined Tomita 1 million won (about $890), as called for by prosecutors. Tomita had initially admitted to ...
Gymnast Kohei Uchimura was named the most valuable athlete for the 2014 season by the Japanese Olympic Committee on Tuesday. Uchimura won the honor for capturing the men's all-around world title for the fifth consecutive time in October. He is the only gymnast to have ...
