Italy's sports minister said he will propose extending the ban on all competitions to the whole of April in an effort to contain the coronavirus.
The death toll from the coronavirus rose past 10,000 in Italy on Saturday, a figure that made an (...)
Ehsan Hadadi, Iran's first Olympic track and field medallist, has tested positive for coronavirus, World Athletics reported on Saturday.
Hadadi, the Asian discus champion who became a national hero when he won silver at the 2012 Olympics in London, (...)
The world's largest democracy went under the world's biggest lockdown Wednesday, with India's 1.3 billion people ordered to stay home in a bid to stop the coronavirus pandemic, while in the U.S., lawmakers and the White House agreed on a massive $2 (...)
The rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Olympics will require sacrifices and compromises by all involved, IOC chief Thomas Bach said on Wednesday, before predicting the completion of "a beautiful jigsaw puzzle and wonderful Olympic Games".
"Our mission is to (...)
The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) has said athletes who have already qualified for the Tokyo Games are assured of their spots when the global sporting showpiece takes place in 2021.
The 2020 Olympics were pushed back by a year on Tuesday due to (...)
Tokyo Olympics, which were scheduled to begin on 24 July 2020, have been postponed to a date "no later than summer 2021" due to the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak, amid mounting pressure from athletes and various stakeholders.
The International (...)
أعلنت شركة نتفليكس خطة لإطلاق 53 عملا فنيا على مدار شهر أبريل، تشمل الأفلام والمسلسلات والعروض الكوميدية الخاصة، اعتبارا من الجمعة 3 أبريل، وقالت نتفليكس، إنها ستكثف عروضها للترفيه عن المشتركين في فترة الحجر المنزلي لمواجهة تفشي فيروس كورونا (...)
Global stock markets and U.S. futures surged Tuesday after the Federal Reserve promised support to the struggling economy as Congress delayed action on a $2 trillion aid package.
Tokyo advanced more than 7% and Frankfurt opened 6% higher. London, (...)
The Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic has taken the world by storm in record time. What used to be scenes from a Hollywood movie or lines from a Dan Brown novel have now become shocking reality as scenes from the spread of the virus around the world (...)
Athletes, national associations and sporting federations from around the world reacted with a mixture of sadness, relief and goodwill to the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on Tuesday because of the coronavirus pandemic.
After weeks of (...)
After almost every other sports championship ground to a halt because of the coronavirus, the world's most prestigious sporting event has finally fallen in line.
On Tuesday, it was confirmed that the 2020 Tokyo Games is to be postponed for a year, (...)
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Tuesday he and the head of the International Olympic Committee agreed on the idea of delaying the Tokyo Olympics by about one year.
Abe was speaking to reporters after a phone call with IOC President Thomas (...)
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Tuesday he and the head of the International Olympic Committee agreed on the idea of delaying the Tokyo Olympics by about one year.
Abe was speaking to reporters after a phone call with IOC President Thomas (...)
The Tokyo Olympics are going to happen - but almost surely in 2021 rather than in four months as planned.
This became clear after the IOC on Sunday announced it was considering a postponement and would make a final decision within four weeks. Major (...)
Japanese soccer international Nahomi Kawasumi said on Monday she was withdrawing from the Tokyo 2020 torch relay, citing worry about the risk of being infected with the coronavirus, or infecting others, if she travelled back from the United (...)
Major sporting nations Australia and Canada withdrew from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on Monday as organisers faced global pressure to postpone the Games due to the coronavirus crisis for the first time in their 124-year modern history.
Putting back the (...)
Tokyo 2020 organisers have started drafting possible alternatives to holding the Olympics this summer, two sources familiar with the talks said, in contrast to the Japanese government's stance that postponement is not an option.
While the (...)
The International Olympic Committee is to step-up its "scenario planning" for the Tokyo 2020 Games -- including their postponement -- it said after an emergency meeting on Sunday.
The IOC will hold detailed discussions which will include possibly (...)
The Norwegian Olympic Committee wants the Tokyo Games only to take place once the coronavirus outbreak “is under firm control” worldwide.
The NIF sent to IOC President Thomas Bach on Friday, entitled “Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 and COVID-19” and (...)
As cases ballooned in Europe, the new epicenter of the coronavirus, several countries imposed new restrictions to try to curb the spread. California and three other U.S. states directed tens of millions of people to stay at home.
Deaths, (...)
An Olympic cauldron was ignited in Japan on Friday with a flame carried from Greece, with officials again pledging the Tokyo 2020 Games will proceed despite mounting pressure to halt the world's biggest sporting event due to the coronavirus (...)
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Tokyo 2020 organisers insist the Games will proceed as planned despite the global coronavirus epidemic, but calls for a postponement are growing louder.
If there is ultimately a delay, maybe by a few (...)
Egypt's flagship carrier EgyptAir operated earlier on Thursday its last international flight before a halt to air traffic over coronavirus concerns came into effect, the national airline said.
The Boeing B777-300 ER plane took off from Cairo (...)
