Japan on course for strongest medal showing at a Summer Olympics

Host-nation Japan looks set for by far its strongest-ever showing at a Summer Olympics if Tokyo 2020 is able to proceed as rescheduled in July and August.
Host-nation Japan looks set for by far its strongest-ever showing at a Summer Olympics if Tokyo 2020 is able to proceed as rescheduled in July and August.
One of the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) most important sponsors is reported to have been fined a record CNY18.2 billion (£2 billion/$2.8 billion/€2.3 billion) by Chinese regulators.
World football governing body FIFA doled out not far off $50 million (£36 million/€42 million) of interest-free loans to national associations during the first six months when its COVID-19 relief plan was in operation.
Olympic family members attending this summer’s Games in Tokyo are to be barred from visiting the Olympic Village.
FIFA has secured insurance for the Qatar 2022 World Cup, with the disclosure coming in the small print of the governing body's newly-published 2020 financial statements.
In what is potentially a landmark moment for sport, FIFA appears last year to have generated more revenue from video gaming than from football.
The man who famously moonwalked around the roof of Beijing’s Bird’s Nest stadium has joined in the financial world’s latest fad.
Fewer than four in 10 European National Anti-Doping Organisations (NADOs) had amended their rules in line with the new World Anti-Doping Code by the time it came into effect last January.
The Olympic Partner (TOP) worldwide sponsorship programme is set to raise around $3 billion (£2.15 billion/€2.5 billion) in the 2021 to 2024 quadrennium, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has revealed.
A company founded by two Olympic oarsmen has been unveiled as principal sponsor of next month’s Oxford versus Cambridge University Boat Race.
A striking statue of women’s sports pioneer Alice Milliat has been unveiled, to the strains of the Olympic Anthem, at the House of Sport in Paris.
Bicycle sales in Britain have continued to boom all the way through a noticeably wet, grey and locked-down winter.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) sponsor Airbnb managed to restrict revenue reductions to 30 per cent in 2020 during what was a terrible year for the international travel business.
COVID-19 has dealt a severe blow to the Swiss hotel sector, which suffered a 40 per cent fall in overnight stays last year compared with 2019.
The longstanding International Olympic Committee (IOC) sponsor Samsung has been overtaken by Apple as the world’s largest smartphone maker, according to new research.