Young athletes gathered Thursday in 2016 Olympics host city Rio to demand action to save part of the city's sporting history -- the Celio de Barros athletics track.... more »
The debate may be raging over whether the 2022 World Cup finals in Qatar should be switched to the winter, but one party content to stick with the original summer dates are the local organisers themselves.... more »
Slovakian slalom specialist Veronika Velez-Zuzulova will miss the winter Olympic Games in Sochi after undergoing surgery on a ruptured left knee ligament.... more »
The upcoming Winter Games in the Russian city of Sochi will see the "toughest-ever" anti-doping tests, International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach said Thursday, despite scepticism over the host country's testing capability.... more »
Russia on Friday said it did not have confirmation of a single country boycotting next year's Sochi Winter Olympics despite a furore over an anti-gay law and vowed to hold one of the best Games ever.... more »
Tokyo may have only been named 2020 Olympic Games hosts on Saturday, but almost immediately the debate began about what the result means for the 2024 race to host the world's biggest sporting event.... more »
Tokyo celebrated Sunday after winning the right to host the Olympic Games for the second time, overcoming fears about radiation from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant to land the 2020 edition of the world's biggest sporting event.... more »
Tokyo celebrated Sunday after winning the right to host the Olympic Games for the second time, overcoming fears about radiation from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant to land the 2020 edition of the world's biggest sporting event.... more »
Tokyo will repay the world the debt they owe them for their help after the devastating tsunami in 2011 when the city hosts the 2020 Olympic Games Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Saturday.... more »
Tokyo on Saturday won the right to host the Olympic Games for the second time, overcoming fears about radiation from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant to land the 2020 edition of the world's biggest sporting event.... more »
Tokyo on Saturday won the right to host the Olympic Games for the second time, overcoming fears about radiation from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant to land the 2020 edition of the world's biggest sporting event.... more »
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe assured International Olympic Committee members on Saturday the situation regarding the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant was under control in the final presentation by the Tokyo bid for the 2020 Olympic Games.... more »
