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The UN should rule on the Tokyo Games, former IOC exec suggests

2021-01-19T18:29:00Z

Kevan Gosper, a former International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice-president, has suggested that the United Nations (UN) might be involved in deciding whether or not the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games should ultimately take place. The ongoing coronavirus pandemic and its recent resurgence in many countries, Japan included, is ...

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Prioritizing Covid-19 vaccine for athletes may ensure Tokyo Games take place

2021-01-13T18:26:00Z

The Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games were postponed to July-August 2021, but the recent resurgence of Covid-19 cases, in Japan as elsewhere, is leaving uncertainty over the actual chances that the event will take place. According to Dick Pound, a senior member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), prioritizing ...

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Survey finds that 80% of Japanese people want Tokyo 2020 postponed or cancelled

2021-01-12T17:22:00Z

According to a telephone poll by Kyodo News, around 80 percent of Japanese people would like this year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo to be postponed or even cancelled. Japan is currently struggling with a resurgence of Covid-19 cases. The cities of Tokyo, Saitama, Kanagawa, and Chiba entered into ...

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The Paris 2024 Olympics will be gender-equal, featuring more action sports

2020-12-10T12:59:00Z

The executive board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has ratified the program for the Paris 2024 Olympics, confirming among others that they will include break-dancing as a sport for the first time ever. Surfing, climbing, and skateboarding, which were proposed as additional sports by the Paris 2024 organizing committee ...

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Anta launches Olympic collection

2020-08-03T07:03:00Z

Anta Sports has launched a collection of licensed sportswear for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics. The collection was presented in Shanghai on July 27. The Chinese sportswear firm was appointed the official sports apparel partner of Beijing 2022 in 2017, and also has an agreement with the International ...

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On partners with Swiss Olympic

2020-07-28T12:22:00Z

On Running, the Swiss brand specializing in performance running shoes and apparel, will be kitting out the Swiss delegations to Olympic Games, Youth Olympic Games and all other Olympic missions until 2028, including at next year’s Games in Tokyo. The Tokyo Olympics, originally scheduled to take place in 2020, were ...

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A global “Summer Festival of Athlete Experiences” online

2020-07-21T15:38:00Z

The International Olympic Committee (IOC), the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and Airbnb, which is an Olympic Games partner, have launched “a summer festival of Olympian & Paralympian online experiences.” The initiative is meant to somehow make up for the postponement of the Olympic and Paralympic Tokyo 2020 Games, which will ...

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Tokyo to cut costs on postponed Olympics

2020-06-13T18:17:00Z

(updated) Two-thirds of the japanese companies that were planned to be a sponsor of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games are having second thoughts about maintaining their commitment until next year, according to the Japanese TV channel NHK. The survey was aired after members of the organizing committee of the Games ...

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Tokyo Olympics are postponed, other sports events cancelled

2020-03-20T11:11:00Z

(Updated on March 24) It’s now official. The Olympic Games will not be held in Tokyo this summer. A joint statement made by the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, and the Prime Minister of Japan, Abe Shinzo, said that they will have to be rescheduled “to ...