The Mexican Olympic Committee (COM) has extended a collaboration agreement with the Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan with a view to the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Tokyo 2020 has confirmed they are following the directions of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and do not plan to make any specific commemoration of Hiroshima’s atomic bomb victims today.

Former Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba has called on the Olympic movement to observe a moment of silence on August 6 to remember victims of the atom bomb that fell on Hiroshima on that day in 1945.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach was greeted by dozens of protestors as he claimed the delayed Olympic Games here would send a message of peace during a controversial visit to Hiroshima.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach is unlikely to be welcomed with open arms when he arrives in Hiroshima for a controversial visit to the atomic bomb-devastated city tomorrow.

And so it begins: International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach is set to arrive in Japan on Thursday (July 8) as the countdown for the delayed Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games enters its final phase.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach is set to visit Hiroshima on July 16 as part of efforts to promote peace ahead of the contentious staging of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo.

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach has sent a message describing the arrival of the Olympic Flame in Hiroshima as “a universal call for peace".

Tokyo 2020 have confirmed the Olympic Torch Relay’s visit to Hiroshima prefecture next week will be taken off public roads and confined to symbolic celebrations.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach is expected to visit Japan in May to attend the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Torch Relay and meet Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.

The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) have announced Hiroshima as hosts of the first Parkour World Championships in 2020.

Belgium’s Jeremy Lorsignol, a silver medallist at last year’s International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) Parkour World Cup in Hiroshima, will seek to go one better as the event returns to the Japanese city as part of the International Festival of Extreme Sports (FISE) World Series.

Prodigious young United States rider Hannah Roberts won the women's International Cycling Union (UCI) BMX Freestyle Park World Cup today as the first Festival of Extreme Sports (FISE) World Series event to be held in Japan came to a close in Hiroshima.

Spain’s Pedro Gomez was fastest in both qualifying and the final in the first ever International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) Parkour World Cup on the second day of the Festival of Extreme Sports (FISE) World Series in Hiroshima.

The first Parkour World Cup to be held by the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) is due to place in Hiroshima tomorrow as part of the International Festival of Extreme Sports (FISE) World Series.