Rebecca Romero has condemned as "ludicrous" and unnecessary the proposed changes to the Olympic track cycling programme that would deny her the opportunity to defend her title...More>
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced an extension to its current partnership with Visa Inc. through to 2020, including the XXII Olympic Winter Games (2014) in S...More>
The London Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) announced here on Monday that Doug Arnot has been appointed as Director of Games Operations. ...More>
After the excitement of bidding and the euphoria of winning, the reality of making the 2016 Olympics happen starts in Rio de Janeiro this week.
The International Olympic Co...More>
Construction has begun on the Basketball Arena as Shona Robison MSP, Minister for Public Health and Sport in Scotland, visited the Olympic Park with the Chairman of the Olympi...More>
Twenty20 cricket matches could be staged at the Olympic Stadium in Stratford, east London, as part of the sporting legacy plan for 2012.
The Olympic Park Legacy Company ha...More>
Brazil will find ways to ensure the safety of Rio de Janeiro's 2016 Olympics, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge said Thursday, after an outbreak of...More>
Rio de Janeiro state officials will meet with executives from China Development Bank Corp. to seek financing for infrastructure investments tied to the 2016 Olympics, said Joa...More>
London 2012 Olympic chiefs were forced to defend their salaries and bonuses Wednesday at a time when other public sector workers were threatened with job cuts and pay freezes ...More>
The 2010 World Cup organising committee chief thinks a successful tournament could lead to the Olympics being hosted in Africa for the first time in 2020.
"The IOC decided...More>
A new book suggests Chinese sports officials made a trade with European members of the International Olympic Committee during their lobbying for the 2008 Olympics, promising t...More>
Britain cannot afford a full team at the first Olympics on home soil for more than half a century unless officials raise another £4 million, it emerged last night.
Th...More>
A nation wide opinion poll that Mainichi Shimbun conducted last weekend regarding a joint bid by Hiroshima and Nagasaki for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games shows that 64 per cen...More>
Rio de Janeiro still has a long way to go to solve its security problems before hosting the 2016 Olympic Games, the city's mayor said on Monday.
After a weekend wave of vio...More>
The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) today continued the development of its ticketing strategy by announcing Thomas Cook as an Off...More>
Netball is hoping to follow the example of rugby sevens by campaigning for the inclusion of a cut-down, speeded-up version of the sport in the Olympics, overhauling its image ...More>
Rome Mayor Gianni Alemanno says Rome is preparing a 10-year construction and development plan in its bid for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games.
Alemanno said Thursday he was c...More>
