Category: Olympic Games

Olympic Games

The Paralympic Games

Paralympic Sport provides a world of opportunities for individuals with physical impairments to showcase their talents within the sporting field. At the height of such sport...

Olympic Games
/ 7 days ago

Watch: Tokyo opens 15,000-seat Olympic aquatics centre

Tokyo opened a 15,000-seat swimming venue for the Olympic Games next year on Saturday, with a swimming star diagnosed with leukaemia...

By Valhmor Camilleri
Olympic Games
/ 1 week ago

Tokyo Olympics on alert for cyberattacks as alleged Russian plot revealed

Tokyo Olympics organisers said they were on constant alert for cyberattacks Tuesday but had yet to suffer “significant impact” after Britain...

By AFP
More Sports
/ 1 month ago

Japan PM Suga ‘determined’ to hold Olympics despite pandemic

Japan is “determined” to host the postponed Olympic Games in 2021 despite the coronavirus pandemic, the country’s newly elected prime minister...

By AFP
More Sports
/ 1 month ago

CAS lifts life bans on three Russian biathletes

Sport’s highest court has lifted life bans handed down on three female Russian biathletes for doping at the 2014 Sochi Winter...

By AFP
More Sports
/ 1 month ago

Tokyo Olympics could take place without vaccine: IOC chief

Olympic boss Thomas Bach said Thursday that the Tokyo Games could take place next year even without a coronavirus vaccine, pointing...

By AFP
Olympic Games
/ 2 months ago

Watch: Sydney re-lights cauldron to mark 20th anniversary of Olympics

Sydney lit its Olympic cauldron Tuesday for the first time since 2000 but the face of those millennium Games, Cathy Freeman,...

By AFP
Olympic Games
/ 2 months ago

Tokyo Olympics will go ahead ‘with or without Covid’ – IOC’s Coates

Tokyo’s postponed Olympics will go ahead next year regardless of the coronavirus pandemic, IOC vice-president John Coates told AFP Monday, vowing...

By AFP
Olympic Games
/ 3 months ago

Postponed Tokyo Paralympics schedule unveiled with minor changes

Tokyo 2020 organisers on Monday unveiled the new schedule for the coronavirus-postponed Paralympics next year, with only minor modifications to the...

By AFP
Olympic Games
/ 3 months ago

Russian athletes should face ‘blanket ban’ in Tokyo, says whistleblower

Doping whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov says no Russian athletes should be allowed to take part in next year’s postponed Tokyo Olympics. The...

By AFP