Shinshiro, which is due to host the start and finish of the road cycling races at the Aichi-Nagoya 2026 Asian Games, has launched a campaign to encourage cyclists and motorists to share the road safely.
Tianjin hosted a range of cultural activities and a fun run as the third destination in a 10-city tour to celebrate the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games.
The Maldives Olympic Committee (MOC) Executive Committee has appointment of Thamooh Ahmed Saeed as the organisation's new secretary general and Hussain Rasheed as financial director.
China has selected volleyball captain Zhu Ting and taekwondo star Zhao Shuai as its flagbearers for the Olympic Games here.
Badminton player Niluka Karunaratne will play at his third consecutive Olympic Games at Tokyo 2020 after being named as one of nine athletes in the Sri Lanka squad.
The Chinese Olympic Committee (COC) has confirmed it will send a record delegation of 777 to the Olympics here, their largest team at an overseas Games.
MainettiCare has been named the official facemask supplier of the Hong Kong delegation at Tokyo 2020.
The Refugee Olympic Team has completed a two-day training camp in Qatar as they prepare to fly out to compete at Tokyo 2020 here.
Venue construction for the 2021 Asian Youth Games in Shantou has been completed.
Volleyball player Kim Yeon-koung and teenage swimming star Hwang Sun-woo have been chosen as South Korea's flagbearers for the Opening Ceremony of the delayed Olympic Games here.
Iranian shooter Hanieh Rostamian and basketball player Samad Nikkhah Bahrami have been chosen to serve as the country’s flagbearers at the delayed Olympic Games here.
Judoka Duurenbayar Ulziibayar and basketball player Khulan Onolbaatar have been selected as Mongolia’s flagbearers for the Opening Ceremony of the delayed Olympic Games here.
The Sri Lanka Golf Union has become the first national sports federation in Sri Lanka to sign a Safe Sport Memorandum of Understanding with the country’s National Olympic Committee (NOC).
The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has announced sponsorship agreements with MPL Sports Foundation, JSW Group and Amul for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
Denver were awarded the 1976 Winter Olympic Games ahead of Sion in Switzerland, Tempere in Finland and Vancouver in Canada at the International Olympic Committee Session in 1970. But in a Colorado referendum in November 1972, voters rejected funding for the event. It is the only time a city has been awarded the Olympics but pulled out. The IOC then offered the Games to Whistler in Canada, but they too declined owing to a change of Government following elections. Salt Lake City offered to host the Games, but the IOC, still reeling from the Denver rejection, declined and selected Innsbruck, the 1964 host city, as a replacement.
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