Sept. 7, 2020
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The postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics will go ahead next year, pandemic or not, IOC vide-president John Coates told the AFP on Monday. In a phone interview, Coates said that the Tokyo Olympics would be the “Games that conquered Covid,” referring to the COVID-19 disease stemming from the novel coronavirus outbreak that has plagued the world over the last 6 months. “The Games were going to be, their theme, the Reconstruction Games after the devastation of the tsunami,” he added, referring to a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan in 2011. “Now very much these will be t ...
July 17, 2020
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The Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee has secured all 43 venues for use during the rescheduled Olympic Games in July 2021, it was announced on Friday. The Olympic Village will also be used for its original intended purpose to house around 11,000 athletes after doubts were raised because of the handover of converted apartments to residents and developers following the Games which were due to start one week from today. So too was it confirmed that the International Broadcast Centre and Main Press Centre will be housed in the Tokyo International Exhibition Center, as was originally planne ...
July 16, 2020
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The IOC and Senegal understand that this news will be disappointing for many young athletes. Both parties can only appeal to their understanding. This agreement results from the large scale of the operational challenges which the IOC, the NOCs and the IFs are facing following the postponement of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. With this in mind, the IOC will continue to offer all IFs and NOC Continental Associations the full content of the educational programmes of the Youth Olympic Games. This will allow for the objectives of this very important and much-appreciated component of the Y ...
July 15, 2020
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The 2022 Youth Olympic Games, which were scheduled to be held in Dakar, Senegal, have been postponed to 2026, as mutually agreed upon by IOC President Thomas Bach and Senegal President Macky Sall . With the coronavirus affecting the entire world and subsequently pushing the summer Olympics in Tokyo back a whole year to 2021, that has drastically affected the rest of the international sporting calendar. Had the Youth Olympics gone on as scheduled, the IOC would have the Summer Games, the Winter Games, and the Youth Games all in a span of 12 months. The IOC said in a release : “The pos ...
July 15, 2020
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The 2022 Youth Olympic Games set to take place in Dakar, Senegal have been postponed to 2026, IOC President Thomas Bach announced Wednesday. The 2026 games will now be the fourth edition of the summer event, and the first Olympic event ever hosted in Africa. “The postponement of Dakar 2022 allows the IOC, the National Olympic Committees (NOCs) and the International Federations (IFs) to better plan their activities, which have been strongly affected by the postponement of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, by the subsequent postponements of major international sports events, and by the ope ...
July 9, 2020
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Japanese swimmer Rikako Ikee, who has been battling leukemia since last year, says she intends to return to competition in early October.
March 30, 2020
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Tokyo 2020 will take place from 23 July to 8 August 2021, the International Olympic Committee have announced. The Olympic Games were scheduled to start on 24 July 2020 but the relentless march of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic meant they were postponed last week for the first time in their history. The IOC said they would take place no later than summer 2021 and there had been some talk of a spring Games but confirmation came on Monday with the dates of the Paralympic Games also announced as running from 24 August until 5 September 2021. The confirmation came following a telecon ...
March 27, 2020
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Per The Japan Times , the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will set the dates for the rescheduled Tokyo Games in about three weeks’ time. This is in line with the original four weeks that Thomas Bach requested to make a decision earlier this week, before his hand was forced by National Olympic Committees that began to unilaterally withdraw from the Games. According to the report, the Games may be held during the spring months rather than the summer months. Should this happen, it would reduce athletes’ exposure to Tokyo blazing heat during the summer months. Earlier this week, th ...
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IOC expected to announce dates of 2021 Olympics in April
March 25, 2020
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International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach put out a new video release on Tuesday with a positive message for athletes toward the future. Bach has become a figure of great international attention, receiving criticism for around the world of sports for the handling of the postponing of the Tokyo Olympic Games, with many accusing him of waiting too long to decide to move the 2020 Olympics to 2021. Bach is painting the postponement of the Olympic Games as an opportunity now, as a “light at the end of the tunnel” that is the global coronavirus Pandemic. “Imagine what thi ...
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Olympic Games could be 'celebration of humanity' ...
March 25, 2020
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Yesterday, March 24th, the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games announced the postponement of the Games to the year 2021. Less than 24 hours, the ripple effect of the groundbreaking decision is being felt, as more Olympic-related events are being cancelled or postponed to align with the new timing. Just today, Tokyo 2020 has decided to postpone the Olympic Torch Relay, which was scheduled to start on March 26th. “We will announce revised dates for the Torch Relay after the new schedule for the Tokyo 2020 Games has been ...
March 24, 2020
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The Tokyo Olympics are to be postponed for one year after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee released a joint statement today confirming the news. The President of the IOC, Thomas Bach , and Japan’s Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe , reached the decision during a conference call this morning, declaring that a postponement rather than a cancellation was the best course of action. On Sunday, Bach announced that the IOC would take 4 weeks to evaluate options to proceed and make a plan for postponement or holding the Games as planned; however, in the ...
March 24, 2020
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The president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, and the Prime Minister of Japan, Abe Shinzo, held a conference call this morning to discuss the constantly changing environm…
March 21, 2020
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The coronavirus has infected more than 275,000 people and killed more than 11,300 worldwide. White House Coronavirus Task Force to update public at 12 p.m. Eastern.
March 20, 2020
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Swimming Canada CEO Ahmed El-Awadi issued a statement on Friday evening responding to recent letters sent from the Canadian Olympic Committee and USA Swimming regarding the potential postponement of the 2020 Olympic Games. El-Awadi says the organization “is very much aligned with many of the points” made by USA Swimming CEO Tim Hinchey, who sent a letter to the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) advocating for a one-year postponement of the Games. “Telling athletes to prepare for an Olympic Games during a global pandemic raises serious issues,” said El-Awadi. “We ...
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#Swim Canada's El-Awadi: training during crisis, "raises serious issues"
March 20, 2020
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The Norwegian Sports Federation (NIF) has sent a letter to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), advocating that the 2020 Olympics, set to take place in Tokyo, are postponed until the COVID-19 pandemic is under control. Additionally, the letter, sent to IOC president Thomas Bach, also asks for insights into the decision-making process the IOC is using for the final decision on whether to move forward with the 2020 Olympics as scheduled or not. NIF president Berit Kjøll states in the letter, “Given the highly unresolved situation in Norway and the world at large, it is neither ju ...
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Norwegian Sports Federation joins a growing chorus to delay Olympics ...
March 20, 2020
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The British Olympic Association (BOA) will not “endanger the health and wellbeing of the athletes” as they prepare for Tokyo 2020 in the wake of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic . There has been mounting criticism of the International Olympic Committee ’s assurance the Games will take place as scheduled from 24 July with athletes questioning how they are expected to train given facilities across the world are in lockdown. There are growing calls to postpone or even cancel the Games with the IOC accused of putting athletes’ health at risk. There are growing calls to postpone or eve ...
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British #Olympic Association won't "endanger health and well-being of athtletes"
March 17, 2020
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According to multiple reports, including one by Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde, International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach is scheduled to hold a teleconference on Tuesday with the leaders of all national federations. The teleconference will address the COVID-19 pandemic and the effect it has had on the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, which are scheduled from July 24-August 9. The coronavirus pandemic, which has impacted the world and forced the shutdown of nearly all sporting events around the globe, has thrown into question whether the Tokyo Games can be held. In rece ...
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IOC will hold teleconference, address #coronavirus pandemic
March 17, 2020
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) appears to have ruled outstaging the Tokyo 2020 Games behind closed doors without spectators because it would run counter to the universality philosophy of a movement that aims to bring people from every corner of the world together in a ‘politics-free-zone’ celebration of sport, according to , quoting Olympic sources. The IOC continues to maintain that the show will go on from July 24 in Tokyo regardless of the global wipeout of the world sports calendar, the at bulk of Olympic test events and trials in many sports now cancelled or postponed ...
March 17, 2020
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The coronavirus pandemic seemed to reach a climax last week in the western hemisphere as sporting events all across the United States ceased in an attempt to slow the spread of the virus. The NBA season got shut down. The NCAA Division II Championships got cancelled after just three sessions. Pools all around the world shut down, leaving a lot of questions of the status of the Olympic Games up in the air. The NCAA decided to cancel all of its winter championships, including the March Madness basketball tournament, and the swimming and diving championships. Read below the five biggest ...
March 16, 2020
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Germany’s swimming federation, the DSV, will decide the fate of the German Swimming Championships , an Olympic qualifier event, this week after cancelling all federation aquatics events on Government advice issued late last week under coronavirus (COVID-19) containment measures. The April German Championships are in doubt as the country ramps up its coronavirus response and the virus statistics start to gallop: an estimated 162,687 people have been infected worldwide, with just under half of them in China (81,003 cases). An estimated 6,065 people have died, 3,085 of them in China. In ...
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German #swimming championships currently scheduled for April may be canceled
