Rio de Janeiro: Olympic beach volleyball silver medallist Marcio Araujo has said that he is showing signs of improvement after falling ill with COVID-19.Less than a day after being turned away from overwhelmed hospitals in Brazil's northeastern city of Fortaleza, Araujo said on Sunday some of his sy...
ReadmoreBengaluru: Indian Men's Hockey team's Sumit said 'every player in the core group' believes that the team can finish in the top three positions at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics."I remember when we won the Sultan of Johor Cup in 2014 and steadily kept improving performance in the lead up to the FIH Men's Ju...
ReadmoreThe Olympic Games draw 11,000 athletes, with 4,400 Paralympics participants along with a large number of support staff.For the Tokyo Games, athletes will be made to stay in a sprawling housing complex on Tokyo Bay.The Olympics also draws thousands of foreign visitors, and depend on air travel and hu...
ReadmoreNew Delhi: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has released revised Tokyo 2020 qualification principles according to which allocated quotas remain valid and International Federations (IFs) could extend the age eligibility criteria for the postponed Tokyo Olympic Games.According to the revised ...
ReadmoreNew Delhi: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Friday that the new deadline for the qualification period for the postponed Tokyo Olympics has been set to June 29, 2021. It further stated that International Federations (IF) of each sport retain full discretion for defining their own res...
ReadmoreBeijing: With the Tokyo Olympic Games rescheduled to the summer of 2021, Beijing 2022 organisers have said they will evaluate the impact of the new dates to ensure the success of the Olympic Winter Games.The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and local organising committee jointly announced on Mo...
ReadmoreThe Tokyo Olympics have been rescheduled to begin from July 23, 2021 and will be ending on August 8. All athletes who had qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will keep their spots for the Games next year, following their postponement due to the coronavirus pandemic.<blockquote class="twitt...
ReadmoreBeijing: The new date for the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games will be decided at the earliest possible in the next three weeks and the Olympic quotas that were already allocated will still be valid, a source with the IOC told Xinhua news agency on Friday.According to the source, IOC members had...
ReadmoreNew Delhi: Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju said that he welcomes the International Olympic Committee's decision to postpone the Tokyo Olympics to 2021. The IOC and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee on Tuesday said in a joint statement that the committee's president Thomas Bach and Abe agreed that the...
ReadmoreTokyo: The 2020 Tokyo Olympics has been postponed. Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Tuesday that he has reached an agreement with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to hold the Games in 2021. The IOC and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee later said in a joint statement that the commi...
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