Summer Olympics

Attention, U.S. Olympic hopefuls: Need money? This can help

The USOPC unveiled a program Tuesday called AMP – Athlete Marketing Program – which will give potential Olympians three ways…

November 17, 2020

Sports

Tokyo Olympics may allow foreign fans; there will be rules

Toshiro Muto, CEO of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics organizing committee, speaks during a news conference in Tokyo.Jae C. Hong/Associated Press…

November 12, 2020

Sports

Russia’s reputation, Olympic status on trial for doping

At an undisclosed location in Lausanne on Monday, the Court of Arbitration for Sport will start hearing four days of…

October 30, 2020

Sports

Japan uses high-tech experiments to fill baseball stadium

The baseball stadium in Yokohama will be used this weekend in an experiment to test if its 32,000 seats can…

October 30, 2020

Sports

Shinzo Abe – aka ‘Super Mario’ – loses out on Japan’s Olympics

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was a star of the closing ceremony of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, parading…

August 28, 2020

Sports

U.S. Olympic Committee gets positive grade on reforms

The Borders Report, spearheaded by former WNBA Commissioner Lisa Borders and released last summer, included a detailed road map for…

August 18, 2020

Sports

U.S. Olympic Committee opens books, gives detail about funding

Transparency key during COVID-19 times

August 3, 2020

Professional Sports

Heat! What heat? Tokyo Olympics would have been on cool side

Japanese swimming athlete Rikako Ikee holding the lantern containing Olympic flame poses during a photo session at the Olympic Stadium…

July 31, 2020

Sports

Postponed Tokyo Olympics hit 1-year-to-go mark – again

Tokyo observed the original date a year ago. That was before the COVID-19 pandemic postponed the Olympics and pushed back…

July 23, 2020

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Tokyo head: Olympics not possible under current conditions

Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee President Yoshiro Mori says the delayed games could not be held next year if conditions surrounding…

July 22, 2020

Sports

U.S. Olympic museum to open July 30 in Colorado Springs

1980 team to be celebrated

July 20, 2020

Sports

Bach warns against Olympic boycotts, seeks re-election

During an interview with a German newspaper Sunday, Thomas Bach says the International Olympic Committee will face “several hundred million…

July 17, 2020

Sports

Tokyo Olympics face skeptics after record day of COVID-19

17% in Japan think Games can be held

July 9, 2020

Professional Sports

Tokyo Olympics seek COVID-19 defenses, but what exactly?

Tokyo’s newly reelected Gov. Yuriko Koike, right, meets Tokyo 2020 President Yoshiro Mori at Tokyo Metropolitan Government headquarters Monday in…

July 7, 2020

Sports

U.S. athletes take stand to abolish Olympic protest rule

1968 Olympic athlete John Carlos raises his fist as he speaks about his experience as Olympians who participated in Mexico…

June 27, 2020

Sports

U.S. Olympic training centers to start gradual reopening June 26

Only a small number of prospective Olympians will be permitted in the first phase of reopening following the shutdown to…

June 19, 2020

Professional Sports

World’s fastest man suspended for missing doping tests

Coleman contends a call would have prevented missed tests

June 17, 2020

Professional Sports

Olympic sports fall short of gender equality

A man jogs past the Olympic rings in Tokyo.Jae C. Hong/Associated Press file Men were able to stay in high…

June 16, 2020

Professional Sports

U.S. Olympic leaders eye change on protests

Athletes wary of platform in Tokyo

June 13, 2020

Professional Sports

USOPC forming group to look into Olympic protests

CEO Sarah Hirshland tweeted the plans for a new group, which is being formed in response to George Floyd’s death…

June 9, 2020

Sports

Tokyo Olympics beginning race to reset

Speculation on cost, readiness runs rampant

May 28, 2020

Sports

World Health Organization urges global unity to help Tokyo Olympics

Japan is still under a coronavirus state of emergency, which was extended this week until the end of May, though…

May 18, 2020

Professional Sports

IOC sets aside $800M for loans, payments linked to pandemic

At least 70% of U.S. Olympic sports organizations have applied for government loans in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic,…

May 16, 2020

Sports

Tokyo Olympic CEO: Games next year may not be ‘conventional’

likely to come everywhere

May 16, 2020