LONDON: Marketing experts fondly recall Seoul 1988 as the Games when the Olympic movement put behind it political boycotts and started to develop...
LONDON: Marketing experts fondly recall Seoul 1988 as the Games when the Olympic movement put behind it political boycotts and started to develop...
TOKYO: Women’s world number one Li Xuerui pulled out of the Japan Open yesterday with a sore knee and men’s number two Chen...
SOFIA: European indoor sprint champion Tezdzhan Naimova has been banned for life after testing positive for the banned steroid drostanolone, the Bulgarian athletics...
PARIS: Newly-elected International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach will move into his new office in Lausanne, Switzerland, today with little fanfare but...
BUENOS AIRES: Jacques Rogge stepped down as president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) eysterday having firmly imposed his ‘Mr Normal’ image on...
TOKYO: A triumphant Tokyo governor Naoki Inose returned home to the cheers of thousands gathered in a plaza yesterday, thanking everyone for the...
F: Bach reflects on his victory at the IOC presidential elections in Buenos Aires yesterday. BUENOS AIRES: Thomas Bach achieved a long-held dream...
TOKYO: The 2020 Olympics could seal the revival of Japan’s long-stagnant economy, analysts say, an echo of the 1964 Tokyo Games that showcased...
ANKARA: The choice of Tokyo instead of Istanbul to host the 2020 Olympic Games was unfair and meant the International Olympic Committee (IOC)...
BUENOS AIRES: Organisers of the 2016 Rio Olympics have been told to get a move on because of increasing concerns they are falling...
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian world number one Nicol David said yesterday she was disappointed squash failed to make it into the 2020 Olympics but...
ROME: Italy could bid to host the 2024 Olympic Games, Prime Minister Enrico Letta has said, after Tokyo clinched victory in the competition...
A picture taken during the final presentation of wrestling in Buenos Aires, yesterday. BUENOS AIRES: Wrestling will be at the Tokyo 2020 Summer...
MADRID: Madrid was dealing with the hangover from a fourth failed attempt at winning the Olympic Games yesterday as Tokyo was chosen as...
BUENOS AIRES: The bloody Syrian civil war cost Istanbul votes over Tokyo to host the world’s biggest sporting event in 2020, two influential...
An aerial view shows people sitting in a formation to the words ‘thank you’ and displaying signs that collectively read ‘Arigato’ (Thank You)...
BUENOS AIRES: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe praised Tokyo’s triumphant bid to host the 2020 Olympic Games as an opportunity to showcase Japan’s resurgence...
BUENOS AIRES: Tokyo’s successful bid to host the 2020 Olympics will help Japan recover from its devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami, the city’s...
