Local authorities have reported a 30 per cent year-on-year increase in the number of people participating in winter sports in Chinese province Hebei, where the majority of the skiing competitions at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games will be held.
Coverage of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing and the Paris 2024 Olympics will be made available on free-to-air television in France after Discovery signed a deal with France Télévisions.
Milan Cortina d'Ampezzo 2026 and Stockholm Åre 2026 will not send full delegations to next month's SportAccord World Sport and Business Summit as part of measures introduced to save costs in the bidding process for the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Switzerland intends to launch a major promotion campaign in China before and during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.
A total of 10 measures have been proposed by officials in Zhangjiakou to ensure the safe construction of venues being built in the region for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing.
International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) President René Fasel has claimed that Beijing hosting the 2022 Winter Olympic Games will be a big boost to the development of winter sports in China.
A former official from China's General Administration of Sport is hopeful the country can better its best-ever gold medal tally at a Winter Olympic Games when it hosts the event in Beijing in 2022.
Full candidature files have been submitted by Milan Cortina 2026 and Stockholm Åre 2026 to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), with both Winter Olympic bids now backed by Government support.
Representatives of major world news agencies visited the facilities for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing as part of a World Agency Meeting.
Sweden's Government have pledged backing to the bid from Stockholm and Åre 2026’s for the Winter 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Games, with Minister of Sport and Culture Amanda Lind claiming they were “united behind the decision”.
Yang Ho Cho, who led Pyeongchang's successful bid for the 2018 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, has died at the age of 70, it was announced today.
Stockholm and Åre could be given until June 24, the day the International Olympic Committee (IOC) votes to choose a host city for the 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, to provide key guarantees from the Government in Sweden, it was revealed here today.
Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo's bid for the 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Games has received a massive boost with the publication of an opinion poll that shows 83 per cent of Italians support it.
British Bobsleigh has launch an appeal for companies to support its campaign to compete at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing after it lost its public funding.
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has officially signed a letter providing the guarantees required by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo's bid to host the 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
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The Football Association (The FA) is the governing body of football in England. We are responsible for promoting and developing the game at all levels; from grass roots through to the professional game, The FA Cup and the England International teams, and has two core assets: Wembley Stadium and St George’s Park. This new role requires carving out and delivering new engagement programmes across the confederations, using existing experience of working in international football. It requires confidence in working with and for leadership teams, and an ability to think and work strategically, deliver projects overseas and build a network of contacts across the national associations.
The International Table Tennis Federation is preparing to move its global headquarters from the Olympic capital Lausanne to a new location - probably in Asia - to capitalise on the massive interest in the sport there and which has helped it reach an annual turnover of $20 million, 10 times more than it was making 10 years ago. Mike Rowbottom reports.
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