BY MICHAEL HOUSTON Swedish runner Folke Alnevik, who was the world’s oldest living Olympic medallist, has passed away at the age of 100. Alnevik was part...
BY MICHAEL PAVITT Tokyo would be able to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games behind closed doors should the coronavirus pandemic not be contained by next...
Viktor Chizhikov, the creator of the brown bear mascot Misha for the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics, has died at the age of 84. A children’s book...
The number of Nigeria athletes that will compete at the Paralympic Games in Tokyo 2021 continues to swell after Isau Ogunkunle and Faith Obiora are confirmed...
BY NEIL SHEFFERD The Asian Art Museum in San Francisco has removed a bust of former International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Avery Brundage from its foyer...
BY MICHAEL HOUSTON An online petition calling for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Village to be turned into a homeless shelter has been launched amid the COVID-19...
BY DAN PALMER Italy’s two-time Olympic 800 metres finalist Donato Sabia has died from coronavirus at the age of 56. The Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI)...
BY LIAM MORGAN A venue used during the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in London is set to become an emergency hospital to treat patients with...
Japan’s Deputy Prime Minister has said that the Tokyo Olympics are “cursed”, as speculation mounts that the Games will have to be postponed owing to the...
Tokyo 2020 have given their backing to the decision of Greek organisers to hold the lighting of the Olympic flame here without spectators on Thursday (March...