The Olympic flame will be greeted with a display by the elite Blue Impulse aerobatic team when it touches down in Japan on March 20.
The Hellenic Olympic Committee (HOC) have given their formal backing to a $12,500,000 (£9,700,000, €11,550,000) renovation which they claim will make the International Olympic Academy (IOA) "a global centre of Olympic Education."
Japanese film star Satomi Ishihara and three-times Paralympic shooter Aki Taguchi have carried unlit Torches as part of a rehearsal for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Torch Relay.
The Tokyo 2020 Torch is to visit a town that was evacuated in the wake of the 2011 tsunami and earthquake, it has been confirmed.
For the first time a woman has been chosen to begin the Olympic Torch Relay in Ancient Olympia.
A rehearsal at Chiba’s Makuhari Messe Convention Center on the outskirts of Tokyo has given a taster of a segment, expected to last 10 minutes.
Marie Krista won Lausanne 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games gold for Switzerland up in the mountains here to delight the home supporters who had come out in force for the ski cross, where 24 competitors contested the women's title.
At the very spot where the Lausanne 2020 medals are presented each night, bandy has made its pitch for full Olympic inclusion in Italy at Milan-Cortina 2026.
The Hellenic Olympic Committee (HOC) has announced that its highest award is to be presented to Artemis Ignatiou, the choreographer of the flame lighting ceremony in Ancient Olympia.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has paid tribute to the winners of the IOC Coaches Lifetime Achievement Awards, Malcolm Arnold and Ulla Koch, who received commemorative statuettes in a ceremony at Lausanne's Olympic Museum.
The 2019 World Athletics 200 metres champion Dina Asher-Smith has advised competitors at Lausanne 2020 to "be authentic" on social media.
Team Courage have won gold in the Mixed NOC Team event, bringing down the curtain on figure skating at the Lausanne 2020 Youth Olympic Games.
South Korea’s You Young won women’s singles figure skating gold at Lausanne 2020 with a magnificent performance which brought a standing ovation, but admitted she took nothing for granted.
Japan’s Opening Ceremony flag bearer Yuma Kagiyama snatched gold in the men’s singles figure skating at the last possible moment in a dramatic finale to the competition here at Lausanne 2020.
They came out in style in the mountains just across the border to welcome the Youth Olympic Games to France.
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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