Tokyo 2020 organizers, IOC affirm commitment to small baseball tournament
The 2020 Tokyo Olympic organizers and the International Olympic Committee have affirmed their intention to hold the baseball competition's first round in two groups of three teams each, Toshiro Muto, CEO of the organizing committee, said Thursday. The committee will inform the World Baseball Softball ...
IOC seeks scaled-down athletes village, related services as part of cost-cutting
The International Olympic Committee has presented a proposal to national Olympic committees on scaling down the athletes village as part of efforts to cut the costs of hosting an Olympics, a source said Thursday. The idea is aimed at reducing the burden on host cities ...
Paris was awarded the 2024 Summer Olympics and Los Angeles was handed the 2028 edition on Wednesday, as the International Olympic Committee broke with decades of tradition to vote on a unique double allocation. Paris, which has hosted two previous Olympics, will stage the event ...
The International Olympic Committee is moving to postpone the retirement of member Tsunekazu Takeda until after the 2020 Tokyo Games, sources told Kyodo News on Monday. Takeda, the Japanese Olympic Committee president, hits the age limit of 70 for IOC members in November, but can ...
AIBA chief Wu responds to ongoing rift, crisis
In the midst of an organizational crisis, the president of the International Boxing Association (AIBA) is fighting back. After AIBA employees were shut out of their offices on Wednesday, according to an AFP report, Wu Ching-kuo, who has been president of boxing's global amateur governing ...
Economist pours cold water on Tokyo hopes for Olympic success in 2020
Tokyo will not benefit long term from hosting the 2020 Olympics — contrary to the hopes and prayers of a nation — sports economist Andrew Zimbalist said Wednesday. "I'd be really surprised," Smith College professor Zimbalist said at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, when ...
After decades-long run, McDonald's ends Olympic sponsorship deal early
U.S. fast-food giant McDonald's has ended its 41-year-long Olympic Games sponsorship deal three years early, the International Olympic Committee said on Friday. McDonald's, a sponsor since 1976 and part of the IOC's top sponsors program that contributes more than $1 billion in every four-year cycle ...
IOC expected to OK Fukushima stadium for 2020 baseball-softball venue: sources
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics organizing committee is expected to win approval from the International Olympic Committee to add the renovated Azuma Stadium in Fukushima Prefecture for the baseball-softball competition, sources said. The ballpark lies in an area hard hit by the March 2011 earthquake ...
Organizers of the 2016 Rio Olympics denied on Friday that vote buying helped to secure the games after a French newspaper reported that a Brazilian businessman made payments to the son of an International Olympic Committee member before the vote. Le Monde said a company ...
Private country club must equalize membership rules to host Olympic golf competition: IOC
Kasumigaseki Country Club will be stripped of hosting the Tokyo 2020 Olympic golf tournament if it does not allow women to become full members, the International Olympic Committee warned on Thursday. "At some point there has to be a cut-off," IOC Vice President John Coates ...
JOC chief questioned in Olympic bid probe on France’s behalf
At France’s request, Tokyo prosecutors have questioned Japan’s Olympic committee president and others over allegations that dubious payments were made to win the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.
Alibaba dives into mass marketing with reported $800 million Olympic sponsorship deal
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.'s deal to sponsor the Olympic Games through 2028 is said to be worth $800 million, according to a person familiar with the matter. The agreement, the biggest in the Olympic movement's history, would help the Chinese e-commerce giant gain exposure across ...
