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The International Olympic Committee’s medical chief said Thursday that the issue of transgender athletes’ participation in Olympic competition is complex and the IOC is still working on a framework for future eligibility.

Each of the Olympians gathering in Japan this summer for the Tokyo Games will add to the long history of the Olympics, which have been played every four years since 1896 (except 1916 due to World War I, 1940 and 1944 due to World War II and 2020 due to COVID-19). Tokyo has hosted the Olympics once before in 1964….

The United States dominates in terms of gold medals with over 1,060 of them won since the first game in Athens, but could the nation’s success at the Olympics be based around sending more athletes than their competitors?

The IOC has finally relented to let Olympic athletes make gestures of protest in their field of play at the Tokyo Games

According to the Council on Foreign Relations, every city hosting the Olympics since 1960 incurred cost overruns, sometimes by tens of billions of dollars.

Brisbane, Australia, will likely be named the host of the 2032 Olympics in a final vote by the International Olympic Committee on July 21.

It’s sinking in that Japan’s scramble to catch up on a frustratingly slow vaccination drive less than two months before the Summer Olympics start may be too little, too late

With less than 3 months to go until the Olympics begin in Tokyo, Japan is battling a surge in coronavirus infections, but the IOC continues to say they are moving ahead with the Olympics in the country.

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach, who led the committee through the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics, has won re-election to a second term.

The torch relay for the postponed Tokyo Olympics is to start in a month.

Tokyo 2020 CEO Toshiro Muto said on Wednesday that the organizing committee is still working through establishing coronavirus safety measures for the upcoming 2020 Olympics.

About 6,500 athletes who already have earned their spots in the Tokyo Olympics are in for 2021

Microsoft Corp. says a Russia-linked cyberhacking group has made “significant” attacks on at least 16 sports and anti-doping organizations across three continents since September. The technology company said Monday the attacks are coming from a group associated with Fancy Bear, which has hacked into systems at the World Anti-Doping Agency and elsewhere to publish reams of confidential medical material on...

Capital One says a hacker got access to the personal information of over 100 million individuals applying for credit.

Tokyo 2020 is not going to be your grandparents’ Olympic Games. When the International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed five new sports were to be included in the Tokyo 2020 Games, it was a clear signal the organization was making a concerted effort to embrace youth culture. To that end skateboarding, surfing, sports climbing and karate, as well as the return...

The International Olympic Committee has formally opened its 145 million Swiss francs ($145 million) new headquarters exactly 125 years after the Olympic Games was revived. “On our 125th anniversary, we clearly see what a great visionary Pierre de Coubertin was,” IOC President Thomas Bach told guests Sunday at the inauguration. “By bringing the entire world together in peaceful competition, the...

The International Olympic Committee has formally opened its 145 million Swiss francs ($145 million) new headquarters exactly 125 years after the Olympic Games was revived. “On our 125th anniversary, we clearly see what a great visionary Pierre de Coubertin was,” IOC President Thomas Bach told guests Sunday at the inauguration. “By bringing the entire world together in peaceful competition, the...

Some lucky New England skiers had a chance to share the sport they love Thursday with an Olympic gold medalist. Kikkan Randall helped end a long medal drought for the United States in cross-country racing last year at the Winter Olympics in South Korea, when she and Jessie Diggins raced to a historic victory in the women’s team sprint.

El conductor huyó en una Range Rover y ahora las autoridades lo buscan tras la muerte de una joven de 23 años.

Getting hip to breakdancing’s appeal with young audiences, organizers of the 2024 Paris Olympics want the dance sport that spread from New York in the 1970s to become a medal event at the games.