TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo Olympic organizers and the Japanese government went on the offensive Wednesday after a senior IOC member said the 2020 Games were being threatened by the spread of a viral outbreak, with their fate probably decided in the next three months.
TOKYO (AP) — Dick Pound, the longest-serving member of the IOC, estimates there’s a three-month window to decide the fate of the Tokyo Olympics, which are being threatened by the fast-spreading virus from China.
U.S. Women’s soccer star and outspoken Trump critic Megan Rapinoe, slammed the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) decision to warning against political protests at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The political neutrality of the Olympics would be undercut if an athlete took a knee in protest on the medal podium at this year’s Tokyo Games, IOC President Thomas Bach said Friday.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — No taking a knee at the Olympics. No hand gestures with political meaning. No disrespect at medal ceremonies.
USA Swimming has announced that it will adopt the transgender athlete policies implemented by the International Olympic Committee.
Russia has been slapped with a four-year ban from Olympic competition by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
Transgender cyclist Rachel McKinnon insisted in a recent op-ed that trans athletes are not “the end of women’s sports.”
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Iran was banned from international judo competitions Tuesday for refusing to let its athletes fight Israeli opponents.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has pulled back on implementing its new rules for transgender athletes after scientists could not agree on the basic ideas in the rules.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Iran has been suspended from international judo competitions because it boycotts bouts with Israeli athletes.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been asked by South Korea to bar Japan from using the “Rising Sun” flag at next year’s Tokyo games, Seoul’s sports ministry said on Wednesday.
The U.S. Education Department Office for Civil Rights (OCR) will investigate a Connecticut transgender athletic policy that allows biological males to compete against biological females in school sports.
Researchers have concluded that male athletes who claim to be female hold an “intolerable” advantage over biological female athletes.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Breakdancing moved a step closer to the 2024 Olympics on Tuesday, and now organizers can look to book a street venue in Paris.
Some natural-born female Olympians are now demanding that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) suspend rules allowing transgender athletes to compete as women.
PARIS (AP) — From the streets of New York to the Olympic podium: Breakdancing’s conquest of the globe seemingly knows no bounds.
A biological male weightlifter competing as a woman in the Commonwealth Games lost the gold medal after trying to lift far more weight than was needed for victory.
Russian hackers and military spies hacked their way into scores of computers at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, according to the Washington Post.
A New Zealand weightlifter, who is a biological male who identifies as a female, claims that he does not have a “physical advantage” over his female competitors.
Gavin Hubbard, who won records as a male weightlifter, claims to have transitioned to being a woman. Now, competing as Laurel Hubbard in his native New Zealand, he’s causing controversy by beating natural born female competitors.
LIMA, Peru (AP) — This was one of those rare Olympic moments where everyone walked away a winner.
Paris for 2024. Los Angeles for 2028. And the International Olympic Committee for transforming an unruly bidding process to lock down its future by choosing not one, but two Summer Olympics hosts at the same time.
TEL AVIV – Speaking in Germany at an inauguration event for a long-awaited memorial to the 1972 Munich massacre, President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday slammed the Palestinian Authority for continuing to glorify the Black September Palestinian terrorists who murdered 11 Israeli athletes during the Olympics that year.
The presidents of Israel and Germany joined together to inaugurate a memorial to the 11 Israeli athletes and a German police officer murdered during an attack by Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
Los Angeles appears poised to take another step toward bringing the 2028 Olympics to the city, despite questions about future costs.
With the International Olympic Committee judging the Los Angeles and Paris bids as equal, Los Angeles could again make hundreds of millions of dollars by hosting the either the 2024 or 2028 Olympic Summer Games.
The results of France’s presidential election on Sunday may determine more than just who will lead the country over the next five years. It might also decide whether the 2024 Olympics will be held in Paris or Los Angeles.
A senior IOC member strongly opposed barring Russia from next year’s Winter Olympics over its doping record on Thursday, comparing a blanket ban to the Holocaust.
In a September 13 press release the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) announced that it had traced an intrusion into its computer system to a hacker group allegedly operated by the Russian government.
TEL AVIV – Egypt’s Judo Federation denied on Tuesday that Olympic athlete Islam El Shehaby had been sent home for refusing to shake the hand of his Israeli opponent after being defeated.
