More than half of Japanese firms want the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and Paralympics postponed or cancelled, a survey by think tank Tokyo Shoko Research found this month. More than 11,000 firms, some under considerable financial pressure because of the […]
Abbie Wood took the plunge in the curtain-closing 200m medley at the Manchester International Swim Meet with a 2:11.6 best that placed her 6th best ever among Brits as the 75th entry on the ranking of the best performances ever […]
Adam Peaty is into dominance on the clock in sprint breaststroke races, as we know, his latest stunning stat-within-a-stat milestone proving the point with a twist at the Manchester International Swim Meet today: he now holds the all-time best 60 […]
The first day of the Manchester International Swim Meet, a moment of relief and race-pace test for the best of Britain swimmers who have not experienced much action of late, produced some sterling efforts, Molly Renshaw topping the bill with […]
Tokyo Olympics Boss Yoshihiro Mori has announced his resignation a week after he made derogatory, discriminatory and sexist remarks about women in the work place. Mori’s demise, announced by Kyodo News reported a moment ago, unfolds despite backing from the […]
Researchers in South Korea have developed an Anti-Doping sweat patch sensor system that is cheap and fast, can be scaled for use at major events such as the Olympics and may bring an end to long waits in control rooms […]
Sarah Sjostrom, the Olympic 100m butterfly champion and multiple holder of World titles and records, suffered a blow in her quest to defend the crown at the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games this July when she fell on ice and […]
Adam Peaty, James Wilby, Luke Greenbank and Paralympic champions Ellie Simmonds and Ellie Robinson and their Britain teammates will race this month at the Manchester International after organisers and backers built a COVID-19-Protocol compliant bubble to make sure the competition […]
Yoshiro Mori, the head of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics organising committee, has apologised for making sexist remarks about “talkative” women in sports organisations, but said he would not resign. Mori, a former Japanese prime minister with what The Guardian today highlights as […]
Those fans, parents and supporters of athletes who do make it to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics from July this year should clap but not sing as a precautionary measure in COVID-19 season, organisers revealed in the first Playbook […]
High-profile athletes and other advocates for safety and fairness for women in sport in the United States have proposed federal legislation to exempt girls’ and women’s competitive sports from President Joe Biden’s recent executive order that mandates blanket inclusion for […]
The TOP sponsors of Olympic sport must demand that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and International Paralympic Committee (IPC) “respect athlete freedom of expression and rescind Olympic Charter Rule 50 .2 and IPC Section 2.2“. That’s the call from Global […]
Cate Campbell is among many elite athletes feeling Tokyo 2020 “off” headlines in the pit of her stomach. All she can do is work on, pray and hope and believe that the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games will open on […]
The Canadian Olympic Committee and Swimming Canada have provisionally nominated six swimmers for the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, set to get underway from July 23, COVID-19 pandemic allowing. As Cate Campbell notes today, having confidence and keeping up the […]
The Japanese government has privately concluded that the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympics will have to be cancelled because of the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic, the nation’s capital looking instead at a bid for – or offer to host – […]
Britain has pre-selected Olympic champion Adam Peaty, fellow World-Champion medley relay members Duncan Scott and Luke Greenbank, as well as the nation’s second breaststroke podium chaser, James Wilby, for the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Trials will be held but […]
The best point among many made by Cate Campbell when the Australian Olympic gold medallist argues today in the Sydney Morning Herald for athletes to be granted priority in “second or third wave” of anti-COVID-19 inoculations if that means the […]
Abuse in Olympic sport – The Committee to Restore integrity to the USOPC has called out The New York Times for granting a suspended gymnastics coach “a platform for her to dispute the neutral arbitrators’ factual findings that she was […]
