IOC drops wrestling from 2020 Olympic program
IOC leaders have dropped wrestling for the 2020 Games in a surprise decision to scrap one of the oldest sports on the Olympic program. The IOC executive board decided Tuesday to retain modern...
View ArticleIOC visits Rio de Janeiro after warning Olympic organizers
IOC inspectors are making their first visit to Rio de Janeiro since telling 2016 Olympic organizers that time is ticking and preparations need to be speeded up. The IOC’s co-ordination commission began...
View ArticleIOC inspectors pay another visit to Sochi
With the games less than a year away, IOC inspectors are paying their latest visit to Sochi to check on preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympics. The IOC co-ordination commission, headed by...
View ArticleLance Armstrong returns bronze medal he won in 2000 Olympics
Lance Armstrong has returned his Olympic bronze cycling medal, the latest fallout from his confession to using performance-enhancing drugs. Armstrong won the medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in...
View ArticleFormer IOC member says Toronto should target 2028 Summer Olympics: report
As a potential bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics gains support in Toronto, former International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Paul Henderson said the city should bid on the 2028 one instead, according...
View ArticleCommittee defers 2024 Olympic bid indefinitely
Toronto’s Economic Development Committee has voted unanimously in favour of deferring a bid for the 2024 Olympics indefinitely. The decision didn’t come as a surprise given the exorbitant cost...
View ArticleBaird tells Canadians to keep guard up at Sochi
The International Olympic Committee remains confident in Russia’s ability to protect the Sochi Winter Games amid terror threats. However, Canada’s foreign affairs minister is offering some words of...
View ArticleIOC reprimands athletes for commemorating the dead
The International Olympic Committee is reprimanding athletes for wearing items commemorating the dead. IOC spokesman Mark Adams said Monday the Olympic body sent a letter to the Norwegian Olympic...
View ArticleParis awarded 2024 Summer Olympics; L.A. to host in 2028
This was one of those rare Olympic moments where everyone walked away a winner. Paris for 2024. Los Angeles for 2028. And the International Olympic Committee for transforming an unruly bidding process...
View ArticleIOC suspends Russian Olympic Committee for 2018 Games
The International Olympic Committee has suspended the Russian National Olympic Committee for the 2018 Games as a result of a doping scandal, but clean Russian athletes can compete under a neutral flag....
View ArticleIOC suspends Indian Olympic Association for interference in election: source
The IOC suspended India’s national Olympic committee on Tuesday because of government interference in its election process, two officials with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press....
View ArticleIOC to cut 1 sport by 2020 Olympics
IOC leaders are meeting this week to decide which sport to drop from the Olympic program and how to deal with the fallout from the Lance Armstrong doping scandal. At a two-day IOC executive board...
View ArticleIndia suspended from participating in Olympics by IOC: reports
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has suspended India from participating in Olympic competition, according to several reports. The IOC claims the Indian Olympic Association conducted elections...
View ArticleIOC head Thomas Bach cancels Japan trip because of virus cases
IOC President Thomas Bach has cancelled a trip to Japan because of surging cases of COVID-19 in the country, the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee said Monday in a statement. Bach was to visit...
View ArticleIOC says its former president Jacques Rogge has died at 79
LONDON (AP) — Jacques Rogge, who oversaw an era of political and financial stability in the Olympic movement after its worst ethics scandal and pursued a hard line against doping during his 12 years as...
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