The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced a collaboration with Studio Ponoc to create an animated short film to be released next year in the lead-up to the Olympic Games in Tokyo. 

Paris 2024 has unveiled the programme of events and activities to celebrate this year's Olympic Day and the Festival of Sport, which have now become one, on June 22 and 23.

Tokyo 2020 has today welcomed Japanese Internet company Yahoo Japan Corporation as an official supporter, the third domestic tier of the Organising Committee’s sponsorship programme.

Paris 2024 has appointed Marie-Emmanuelle Assidon, the deputy prefect for equal opportunities in the Bouches-du-Rhône region, as its executive director of institutions and territories for the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Valérie Pécresse, President of the Île-de-France region, has said the commissioning of the railway line that will link Charles de Gaulle Airport and Gare de l'Est for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games is "untenable".

Tokyo 2020 has today launched the lottery for the first phase of Olympic Games ticket sales for residents of Japan, but the online application process was slowed due to a increase in traffic to the official website.

A report detailing Los Angeles 2028's revised budget for the Olympic and Paralympic Games has been presented to an ad-hoc City Council committee at a special meeting in the city.

The French National Research Agency (ANR) has called for the science and sport communities to register their interest in contributing to a programme designed to improve the performance of home athletes at the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris.

Paris 2024 has released its Code of Ethics with the Organising Committee expressing its desire to impose the "highest ethical standards and transparency" for delivering an exemplary Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Tokyo 2020 has today unveiled images of the Olympic mascot Miraitowa and Paralympic mascot Someity in a variety of poses, each representing one of the 33 Olympic and 22 Paralympic sports.

Tokyo 2020 today published a report summarising progress, made mainly during 2018, in the implementation of its sustainability plan.

The delivery body of Paris 2024 has launched the call for tenders for the construction of the Olympic and Paralympic Village.

Tokyo 2020 has today announced the launch of its new Robot Project, one of many programmes aimed at ensuring the Olympic and Paralympic Games will be the "most innovative" ever and provide visiting fans with an experience they are unlikely to forget.

World Karate Federation (WKF) President Antonio Espinós has claimed it is "simply not logical" to exclude the sport from the Paris 2024 programme before its Olympic Games debut at Tokyo 2020 and has vowed that the international governing body will "continue fighting until the end" for the "restoration of its honour and its athletes' rights".