Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) President John Coates has ordered Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk to attend the Tokyo 2020 Opening Ceremony, after Brisbane was confirmed as hosts of the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games here yesterday.
Guinea has decided not to send its delegation to the 2020 Olympic Games here because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been announced.
Senegal's flag will be carried by judoka Mbagnick Ndiaye and swimmer Jeanne Boutbien at the Tokyo 2020 Opening Ceremony here on Friday (July 23).
Tokyo 2020 President Seiko Hashimoto expects the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games here to be a "solemn" occasion rather than a festival.
The European champion in the men's 400 metres individual medley is the latest athlete ruled out of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics through testing positive for COVID-19.
World number one skeet shooter Amber Hill has been forced to withdraw from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics after testing positive for COVID-19.
Surfer Ramzi Boukhiam and boxer Oumaima Bel Habib will carry Morocco’s flag at the Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
The city-centre sites for what is being billed as a "unique" Opening Ceremony for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games are expected to be revealed at the end of the year.
Women's football teams took the knee today in the first examples of protest at the Olympic Games after a relaxation of the rules.
Germany will have a digital hospitality house here at Tokyo 2020 in a bid to provide the best support for its athletes.
Brisbane has been awarded the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) rubber-stamped the Australian city as the host of the event at its Session here today.
Boxer Eumir Marcial will replace Asian pole vault champion Ernest John ‘EJ’ Obiena as the Philippines flagbearer for Friday’s Olympic Opening Ceremony here at Tokyo 2020.
Australia’s deputy Chef de Mission Ken Wallace is confident athletes will thrive at Tokyo 2020 without having medal targets "pushed down our throats".
Flowers from the Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures will be used throughout the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games to promote the recovery from the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
Carissa Moore has spoken of her gratitude towards Makinohara which hosted the United States’ surfing team prior to the Olympics here in Tokyo.
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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Brisbane, a thriving state capital with an "irresistible" candidacy is set to be formally awarded the 2032 Olympics at this week's IOC Session. Philip Barker profiles the city due to be confirmed as hosts, and also looks at the changing nature of the host city selection process.
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