British freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy has urged the International Olympic Committee (IOC) not to allow countries that have "appalling human rights stances" to host the Games and questioned China's suitability to stage the 2022 Winter Olympics.
France has said it will deploy some 35,000 security agents and the military to secure the 2024 Olympic Games opening ceremony
Yavarivafa would be jailed three times -- once entirely alone for a day, crying and taken from her mother -- before she made it to Birmingham, England at the end of 2019 and finally found a home.
Ministry mulls graded funding for sports federations
The NCAA previously allowed transgender women to compete as long as they met testosterone limits on a sport-by-sport basis.
The Olympics were postponed on Tuesday to 2021, the first such delay in the Games' 124-year modern history, as the coronavirus crisis wrecked the world's last sporting showpiece still standing this year. Japanese Olympic Committee President Yasuhiro Yamashita told reporters it was now time to be positive and prepare.
Cricket is seen as one of the favourites given the sport's wide global reach, its financial strength and broadcast appeal.
The Tokyo Olympic games were postponed last year due to the pandemic. The showpiece event will be held from July 23 to August 8, 2021, while the Paralympics will take place from August 24 to September 5, 2021.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) last year suspended AIBA, the International Boxing Association, over issues surrounding its finances and governance and took over the boxing competition and qualification for the 2020 Olympics.
France showcased its cultural diversity, spirit of revolution, impeccable craftsmanship, and architectural heritage in a riveting opening ceremony for the 33rd Olympic Games.
It has invested billions of dollars in preparing for the 2022 soccer World Cup. However, human rights groups have criticised the treatment of migrant workers.
Former Olympic champions Alexander Popov of Russia and Moon Dae-sung from South Korea are among four new members elected to the International Olympic Committee's athletes commission. Popov, 50 meters freestyle gold medalist at the 1992 and 1996 Games, and Moon, a taekwondo gold medalist at the 2004 Athens Olympics, were joined by German fencer Claudia Bokel and Cuban volleyball player Ruiz-Luaces Yumilka.
The Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports (NIF) has written to the IOC to postpone the Games in view of the Coronavirus pandemic.
Up to three billion people are expected to tune in for the opening ceremony in Paris.
Star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra on Thursday lauded World Athletics' decision to award USD 50,000 to all its gold-medallists in the Paris Olympic Games and said he would like to see such incentive being given in other global competitions as well.
India returned to the Olympic fold after the International Olympic Committee lifted the ban on the country's Olympic association (IOA) on Tuesday. Its athletes will now be able to march behind the Indian flag at the closing ceremony of the Sochi Winter Games. But India's return wasn't without its fair share of drama. Here is a summarised account of how the stage was set for India's Olympic comeback.
The IOC chief said that holding events without spectators was clearly something the IOC did not want.
Russians are facing the likelihood of having to compete under a neutral flag in Paris because of Putin's invasion of Ukraine. The IOC has taken no final decision but said athletes should not be punished for the acts of their governments.
Disgraced retired cyclist Lance Armstrong has returned his 2000 Olympic medal to the US Olympic Committee (USOC) nine months after he was stripped of it, USOC officials said on Thursday.
Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva will be allowed to compete in the women's singles in figure skating at the Beijing Olympics after a decision by sport's top court on Monday.
The International Olympic Committee expects to bear costs of up to $800 million for its part in the organisation of the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics, now due to be staged next year, IOC president Thomas Bach said on Thursday. In March, the International Olympic Committee and the Japanese government decided to delay the Games, which were due to start this July, for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic that has killed 300,000 people worldwide.
'We are not the ones who made the decision, we are only executing it,' Tsimanouskaya said the two officials told her. The two officials had told her the order to send her home came from "high up" in Belarus.
The IOC had also stated that its Executive Board reserves the right to take any further action at any stage of the process depending on how the situation develops.
The Indian Olympic Association on Saturday hailed the inclusion of cricket in the "Olympic family" and hoped the game will make its debut in the 2020 Games.
Bhaker said the award selection panel would have followed due processes but sometimes errors can happen.
Paris mayor vows to keep Russian, Belarusian athletes out of Olympics
The USOPC has received "significant reassurances" from the White House on visas for the Los Angeles 2028 Games, Chair Gene Sykes said on Thursday, weeks after an internal memo showed the Trump administration was weighing sweeping travel restrictions.
China's foreign ministry said the decision to delay the Tokyo Olympics to be held this summer reflects the International Olympic Committee's and Japan's responsible attitude to health and security.
Thomas Bach on Friday said he has a "certain understanding" for Vinesh Phogat but also wondered where would one draw the line after allowing small concessions in certain situations.
Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt spent Saturday morning listening to Prime Minister Narendra D Modi when the PM traveled to Mumbai to address the 141st International Olympic Committee session at the Jio World Centre in north west Mumbai.
Prime minister Narendra Modi on Saturday asserted that India will leave "no stone unturned" in its efforts to organise the 2036 Olympics as the government expressed a strong desire to host the biggest sporting event in the world.
A resolution, which was supported by 180 out of the 193 UN member states, calls for the Olympic Truce to be respected from seven days before the start of the August 5-21 Olympic Games until seven days after the September 7-18 Paralympic Games.
If Ahmedabad is India's preferred candidate, as seems likely, hosting Olympics 2036 should give it a leg up: A bigger airport, a better metro network, more hotels, flyovers and so on, observes T N Ninan.
Coaching crisis, heartbreaks and Olympic setbacks mark a disastrous year for Indian boxing
Brisbane had been the preferred host, chosen in February, and the board's proposal now goes to the IOC session before the Tokyo Olympics
The Wrestling Federation of India conveyed to the world governing body UWW that the sports ministry is interfering with its autonomy.
Australia's Olympic hockey player Tom Craig was arrested in Paris and is being held in custody for buying cocaine, a police union source said on Wednesday.
World Athletics chief Sebastian Coe said earlier this month he believes athletes should have the right to make gestures of political protest during the Games, contrary to official IOC policy.
Sagoo said the AFI will frame guidelines to ensure transparency when permission for competition and training abroad is sought by an athlete.
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