The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been drawn into the row over the Russian Olympic Committee's (ROC) involvement at Tokyo 2020, following critical comments of Travis Tygart, chief executive of the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA).
International Olympic Committee (IOC) medical and scientific director Richard Budgett has acknowledged current guidelines around transgender athletes are no longer fit for purpose, with the organisation set to publish an updated framework to guide International Federations in devising their own rules.
Athleten Deutschland has slammed the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for allowing athletes to spend their quarantine period in "prison-like conditions" at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics here.
A campaign group in Iran has called for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to suspend the Olympic shooting gold medal awarded to Javad Foroughi after claiming he is part of a "terrorist organisation".
World pole vault champion Sam Kendricks of the United States has been ruled out of the postponed Olympic Games here after testing positive for COVID-19.
The International Olympic Committee has been accused of showing "cold indifference to genocide" at a Congressional Executive Committee on China (CECC) hearing which today grilled United States-based Olympic sponsors.
The International Olympic Committee has issued new guidelines to encourage gender-equal, fair and inclusive coverage at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, which features record female participation.
It is unusual for the Winter Games to be diverting attention when the Summer Olympics are in full swing.
Refugee Olympic Team (EOR) Chef de Mission Tegla Loroupe could miss the chance to lead the squad at the delayed Olympic Games here as she is still in Doha after testing positive for COVID-19.
Intel, a major International Olympic Committee (IOC) sponsor through its flagship The Olympic Partner (TOP) scheme, is implementing cutting-edge technologies including drones and three-dimensional renderings of competitors at Tokyo 2020.
The Congressional Executive Commission on China (CECC) in the United States has ramped up pressure on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and its US-based sponsors through The Olympic Partner (TOP) programme to change plans for the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games to take place in Beijing next February.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has warned athletes are not exempt from the strict COVID-19 rules in place at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games here after swimmers were seen taking off their masks and hugging other competitors on the podium.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been told to reinstate the accreditation of Russia’s most senior weightlifting official.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has warned it will take action in cases of "blatant" breaches of the COVID-19 rules in place at Tokyo 2020 after some athletes and officials paraded without masks during the Opening Ceremony here last night.
Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee, has praised the service provided to the Games by timekeepers Omega.
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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