The New Zealand team for this summer’s Tokyo 2020 Games and next year’s Beijing 2022 Winter Games have already plan to use non-invasive saliva polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests for COVID-19 for it’s team before departure. The new saliva testing option will be fast, accurate and more comfortable for athletes as more than 1,000 required […]
If the offer of Chinese Olympic Committee is accepted it will see them providing Covid vaccine doses to those athletes competing at the summer Games and at the 2022 winter Games in Beijing. According to International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach who made known Chinese gesture on Wednesday added that the delayed Tokyo 2020 will […]
A lot of Weightlifting Stakeholders have warned that if delayed election is not hold on time before Olympics; the Weightlifting will lose her Olympics status. They argued that if Weightlifting Federation (IWF) should not hold its delayed elections before the rearranged Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games then the sport’s chances of retaining its place on the […]
The recalcitrant board of International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) finally made a volte-face on Anti-Doping rules but not after heavy criticism from International Olympics Committee (IOC). It has also accepted independent advice about the vetting of candidates for next month’s elections, which will be carried out by a British company with no links to anybody at […]
In a surprise move and just few days after Tokyo dismissed the news that she has turned her back on hosting, the Florida has written the International Olympics Committee (IOC) for their readiness to replace Tokyo city as host. Florida’s chief financial officer, Jimmy Patronis wrote the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Monday (25) to […]
Nijat Rahimov, a Kazakhstan gold medallist at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and Dumitru Captari of Romania – who also competed in the under-77 kilograms event in Rio de Janeiro have been provisional suspended for urine sample swapping. Both men now stand suspended after being charged under article 2.2 of the International Weightlifting Federation’s (IWF) […]
Venezuela faces a loss of Olympic Weightlifting quota places because of multiple doping offences; with a new doping case bringing to 10. Jeyson Mosquera, who won three 102 kilograms competitions last year, including the South American Championships, has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for hormone and metabolic modulators. When all current doping cases are […]
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Wednesday stripped two Romanian weightlifting athletes of their medals from the 2012 Olympic Games and disqualified a third over the use of anabolic steroids. Roxana Cocos, who won silver in the women’s 69kg category and team mate Razvan Martin, a bronze medallist in the men’s category of the same […]
The World Athletics received a boost as it’s president Lord Sebastian Coe has been elected as a member of the International Olympic Committee ( IOC). Coe’s candidacy was proposed after he changed his status at sports marketing firm CSM to a non-executive role over a potential conflict of interest. The 63-year-old had been turned down […]
The South African Sport Confederation and Olympics Commitee (SASCOC) election imbroglio seems to have seen the end of the tunnel as International Olympics Commitee (IOC) has waded in by appointing a 82-year-old IOC member, Sam Ramsamy to help to oversee and “facilitate the process leading to the elections” in his home country. Elections are set […]
In a very unusual and unprecedented manner, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) has threatened to withdraw its funding of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) unless the three outlined area are look into. It outlines three areas that should be monitored in respect of whether funding is reduced or withdrawed, with […]
A former BBC reporter, now member of parliament and sits on the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, John Nicolson has joined leading athletes in expressing their concerns after it emerged that a firm of which Lord Coe is executive chairman, CSM Sports and Entertainment, had been profiting from deals with the company that owns […]
The IOC outlined before the Tokyo Olympics Games were move back to 2021 that kneeling would not be allowed but has softened its stance in light of the NFL changing it’s position following the Black Lives Matter protests in the US and athletes across other sports, including football, also showing solidarity with the movement by taking a knee. […]
The towering popularity of World Athletics president, Sebastian Coe, will be crown soon as the executive board of International Olympics Commitee (IOC) has proposed him to be a member. Coe is one of five officials due to be approved as members at the first virtual IOC Session on July 17. IOC President Thomas Bach said […]
Weightlifting has been given approval by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to extend its Tokyo 2020 qualifying period by a year, until the end of April 2021. Every athlete, including those who already have enough points to qualify, will be compelled to compete at least one more time in the period between October 1 this […]
After approval by International Olympics Commitee (IOC) and Paralympic, Badminton World Federation (BWF) has outline new qualification rules for the Tokyo 2020. Although the new system will still maintain the ranking points earned during the original qualification window. However, it has extended the Olympic qualification period for the first 17 weeks of 2021, culminating around […]
More criticism is mounted on South Africa Sports Confederation and Olympics Commitee, first by Sport minister and later by the parliament. Now the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has also raised concerns with the crisis-ridden SASCOC holding a virtual Presidential election, following a troubled nomination process. SASCOC confirmed it was considering the possibility of staging its […]
Despite sports shut down with little or no testing going on, World Anti-Doping Agency President Witold Banka is still cry for more fund by soliciting for extra funding by trying to persuade government in the fight against drug cheats. Drug testing around the world has nearly ground to a halt due to lockdown restrictions, leaving […]
World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has said the organisation is holding discussions with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) over securing its share of revenues expected from the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Several International Federations (IFs) are set to request an early payment of sums they expected to receive from the IOC from the Games, […]
The cancellation of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics Games in Japan wiped away smile completely from David Lekuta Rudisha, a double 800m Olympic champion and world record holder. “This is a sad moment for me. The cancellation of the Summer Games was a tough decision and has affected my preparations both physically and mentally in a […]
Recently the South Africa sport has exploded into different in-fighting between different gladiators. First the South Africa Olympics election ran into a ditch then followed by counter accusations in South Africa football ball. Two days ago, MP and DA shadow minister of sport Tsepo Mhlongo called for the suspension of SA Football Association (Safa) president […]
The former European 3000 Steeplechase Champion Turkish Gulcan Mingir has been found guilty for Anti- doping offence after her sample for 2012 Olympics was reanalysed using latest technology. Following a re-analysis of Mıngır’s sample from the event, a positive test for the prohibited substance dehydrochlormethyltestosterone, or turabinol, was revealed. An IOC Disciplinary Commission, composed of […]
Former president of Australia Olympics and the head of the Tokyo 2020 Coordination Commission John Coates AC has claimed the Olympic and Paralympic Games are not dependent on a vaccine being developed in time to allow the events to take place next year. The Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics were postponed last month due to […]
The coronavirus pandemic that forced the postponement of the Olympics and Paralympics to July 23 to August 8 and August 24 to September 5 2021 respectively, has thrown a thin of uncertainty to most NOCs election which normally hold a year after the Games. To address this challenge, the IOC will have a flexible approach […]
The president of Association of National Olympics Commitee of Africa (ANOCA) and president of Algeria Olympics Commitee (COA) has been ban by Algeria authority from making any foreign trip; until a gross financial embezzlement levelled against him is cleared. According to Le Soir Algeria newspaper, the public prosecutor at the Bir Mourad Rais court said the […]
The chairperson of International Olympics Commitee Athletes Commission and Zimbabwe’s minister of Youth,Sports, Arts and Recreation Kirsty Coventry has lauched a relief fund for the Zimbabwe athletes. It is called The United Programme for Athletes and Artists in Zimbabwe (UPAZIM). It was aimed at providing support for both athletes and artists during this pandemic. “We […]
Russia’s four-year doping ban should be thrown out by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to prevent further damage to the Olympic Movement amid the coronavirus crisis, the country’s Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin has claimed. Matytsin said the International Olympic Committee, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the CAS judges should “turn a new […]
The fourth time Olympics Champion Mo Farah has reacted to Tokyo Olympics Postponement with some elation. Feel the postponement will not affect him from featuring in rescheduled Olympics despite he will be 38 years by then. “Olympics was about the last thing to get cancelled. In a way obviously it’s disappointing it has been cancelled […]
FIFA has officially extended the age limit for the men’s football tournament at the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics to 24 from 23. Following the Games’ postponement due to the coronavirus pandemic, the amended rule retains the original stipulation regarding teams being based around players born on or after 1 January 1997, but given the Olympics’ move […]
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