The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will not only award the Winter Youth Olympics to countries who have hosted the main Games and the door is open for smaller nations to stage the event, according to a senior official at the organisation.
A court in Rio de Janeiro has ordered the Olympic Park be closed because of safety concerns, dealing another blow to the legacy of the city's hosting of the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg is expected to arrive in Lausanne tomorrow as part of a planned event, taking place during the Winter Youth Olympic Games here.
I have written before that under Thomas Bach's Presidency, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has become less like a parliament and more like a corporation.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has claimed Iran has not been suspended by the organisation, because the country has sent a letter assuring it will end its discriminatory policy against athletes from Israel.
The Philippines has offered to host next month's Asia and Oceania Olympic boxing qualifier if the event is moved from Wuhan because of a pneumonia outbreak.
The one-day International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session here in Lausanne was short on decisions, but firmly showed the direction of travel for the organisation on several issues set to dominate the headlines in the coming year.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach took another opportunity to talk up a bid from Sapporo and claimed it would not "take forever" for the Future Host Commission to make a proposal on the venue for the 2030 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is monitoring the impact of an outbreak of pneumonia on next month's Asia and Oceania boxing qualifier for Tokyo 2020 in Wuhan, as health authorities confirmed the first death from an unidentified virus.
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The Olympic Channel is "very firmly on track" to be self-sustaining by the end of 2021, as originally planned, according to Yiannis Exarchos, chief executive of Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS).
Sapporo, Salt Lake City and Barcelona have expressed an interest in hosting a future Winter Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed here today.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Richard Pound warned the organisation that they could get "taken to the cleaners" if they collaborated with esports before fully understanding it.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has urged the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to make a "watertight" decision on Russia to prevent any confusion in the lead-up to the Olympic Games in Tokyo.
The head of the International Olympic Committee group monitoring the International Boxing Association (AIBA) has slammed the lack of progress the body has made since it was suspended - and warned it needs to work much harder to be reinstated.
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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