The International Cycling Union (UCI) has borrowed $5 million (£3.6 million/€4.2 million) from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to help mitigate the impact of Tokyo 2020's postponement.
By Duncan Mackay, Liam Morgan, Michael Pavitt, Mike Rowbottom, Philip Barker, Dan Palmer and Geoff Berkeley in Tokyo
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Almost DKK200,000 (£22,890/$31,790/€26,890) has been raised to aid Parasport Denmark’s preparations for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games through a scheme centred on pillows.
Maude Charron went into weightlifting "just for fun", finds training a bit boring, and had never made an international appearance at the time of the last Olympic Games in 2016.
Estonia beat South Korea 36-32 in an enthralling women’s team épée final at the Makuhari Messe Hall B in Chiba.
A Russian women’s artistic gymnastics team consisting of Liliia Akhaimova, Viktoriia Listunova, Angelina Melnikova and Vladislava Urazova won gold at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
Germany’s experience was the decisive factor in retaining the Olympic team dressage title, yet it fell to debutant Jessica von Bredow-Werndl to perform the test which clinched gold on TSF Dalera.
Jolanda Neff led home a Swiss clean sweep in the Tokyo 2020 women's cross-country mountain bike event in Izu, with the gold medallist winning by more than a minute.
Nikita Nagornyy, David Belyavskiy, Denis Ablyazin and Artur Dalaloyan won the gold medal in the men's artistic team all-around event at Tokyo 2020.
Evgeny Rylov won the men’s 100m backstroke final at Tokyo 2020.
The daughter of a four-time Olympic champion, Sofia Pozdniakova kept the family legacy going by winning women's sabre gold at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
Japan successfully retained the Olympic softball title they last won 13 years ago by beating the United States 2-0 in today's gold-medal game.
Teenagers Chen Yuxi and Zhang Jiaqi maintained China’s 100 per cent record in winning the women’s 10 metres synchronised platform title at the Olympic Games, after the divers secured a dominant victory here today.
Germany’s Ricarda Funk chose the perfect stage to deliver the performance of a lifetime as she clinched her first Olympic gold medal with victory in the women’s K1 event at Tokyo 2020 today.
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.
Fedeation Equestre International - Sport Content & Social Media Manager - Lausanne, Switzerland
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The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games are not the first to be impacted by quarantine rules. Philip Barker tells the story of the Melbourne 1956 Games, where the equestrian events were held in Stockholm.
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