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.
After winning a silver medal at Tokyo 2020, India's Mirabai Chanu is hungry for more success in 2022 and targeting the Asian Games.
The European Olympic Committees (EOC) has made French-based Atos its digital technology partner for the next two European Games.
Preparations have been gearing up for the 2022 Gay Games, scheduled to take place in Hong Kong next November, although one leading politician has called for additional Government support for the event.
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.
Funk musician Bootsy Collins has been named the Master of the Ceremonies for the 2022 World Games in Birmingham, Alabama.
Organisers of the Birmingham 2022 World Games have signed a major new broadcast agreement with CBS in host country the United States.
The Government of Ghana looks set to borrow $170 million (£124 million/€144 million) to help fund the 2023 African Games.
Turkish aerobic gymnast Ayşe Onbaşı has been named The World Games Athlete of the Month for June, after becoming world champion at senior level for the first time.
Ghana has abandoned plans to build a new Olympic Sports Complex to host the 2023 African Games in Accra.
The Organising Committee of the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games has vowed to ensure many of the sports venues for the 2022 Asian Games are available for public use following the conclusion of the event.
The gymnasium at Hangzhou Normal University, which is to act as the venue for volleyball at the 2022 Asian Games, has been declared ready more than a year before it is due to host competition.
The creative team for the Opening Ceremony of the 2022 Asian Games in Chinese city Hangzhou has been revealed, with filmmaker Lu Chuan serving as creative director.
Oran has marked the countdown to the 2022 Mediterranean Games with a “brilliant" waterfront event.
Plans are being made for coronavirus countermeasures at the Santiago 2023 Pan American and Parapan American Games, should they be required.
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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