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Michael Pavitt: Biden's election success should come as a relief for the IOC

  • Inside the Blogs

I suspect the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was among those around the world breathing a sigh of relief that Joe Biden has become President-elect of the United States.

Trump having been specifically named by fencer Race Imboden as part of his reasoning for protesting.A protest

ultimately concluded with the Los Angeles Mayor securing a deal to bring the Games to the city in 2028, with Paris


Philip Barker: When sport is used as a tool in political games

  • Inside the Blogs

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko was sworn in for another term in a low key ceremony last week as reports said that there were widespread arrests in the capital Minsk.

just as it did when the city was chosen for the 2008 Summer Games.Protests dogged the Torch Relay in Paris

 Campaigns such as the Black Lives Matter protest have brought the issue to the forefront but many


International Judo Federation slams Paris racism after legend Riner targeted

  • Judo

International Judo Federation (IJF) has described the racist graffiti aimed at black French athletes in Paris

and 10 World Championship golds in a glittering career.His defeat to Japan's Kokoro Kageura at the Paris

 Paris is due to host the Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2024.The ongoing debate on racism

to calls for the International Olympic Committee to scrap Rule 50, which bans any type of political protest


Hidalgo admits coronavirus pandemic raises "new tests" for Paris 2024 organisers

  • Paris 2024

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo has conceded the economic crisis sparked by the coronavirus pandemic provides

wide-ranging interview with L'Équipe, Hidalgo admitted costs will have to be cut from certain areas of the Paris

2024 project in response to the COVID-19 virus.Her comments echo those made by Paris 2024 President

-year-old said the International Olympic Committee - which lists Airbnb, a company that Hidalgo and Paris

warning they would suspend participation in the organisation of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in protest

Airbnb, which is a de facto partner of Paris 2024, will suffer a lot from this crisis like many rental


IOC sponsor Airbnb cuts 25 per cent of workforce due to coronavirus pandemic

  • News

Airbnb, the short-term room-rental service that became a global sponsor of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) less than six months ago, is cutting 25 per cent of its workforce.

that the figure was "not correct".It covers five editions of the Olympics: Tokyo 2020, Beijing 2022, Paris

warning they would suspend participation in the organisation of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in protest

, and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo warning of the "risks" of the deal.The IOC, for its part, has said that


Uncertainty over Olympic Flame lighting not for the first time

  • The Big Read

The uncertainty over coronavirus has cast a cloud over the build-up to Tokyo 2020, and there is even a sense of precariousness over the lighting of the Olympic Flame, which is scheduled for Olympia on Thursday morning (March 12).

A student protest had ended in tragedy when Government forces opened fire.

There was a substantial alteration to the programme and some portions done by bus.In Paris, protest flags


How tennis' original Williams family helped found the International Tennis Federation

  • The Big Read

sashayed towards its cataclysmic conclusion, the International Lawn Tennis Association was founded in Paris

many codas as heart-warming as the Olympic gold medal-winning performance that will take us back to Paris

represent it informally “without power of voting”.As for Williams, just under 11 months before the Paris

By 1905, it had expanded to include Belgium, Austria, France and Australasia.The minutes of the Paris

nbsp;The intervention prompted a stern response from Australasia’s Inglis, however, who “made a strong protest

countries” and not, apparently, a matter which concerned the ILTF, Inglis “formally requested that his protest


Philip Barker: Fighting the 1980 Olympic boycott

  • Inside the Blogs

Forty years ago this week, a deadline imposed on the Olympic Movement expired.

Prince.United States President Jimmy Carter had led the boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow in protest

by different Governments for putting pressure on National Olympic Committees to boycott the Games, protest

attempt was in vain.West Germany, Japan and Canada also voted not to attend.There came a boost from Paris


Nancy Gillen: Is Megan Rapinoe the biggest threat to political neutrality at Tokyo 2020?

  • Inside the Blogs

The International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) stance on political neutrality and podium protests has caused something of a stir recently.

lead-up to Tokyo 2020 - will an athlete go against the repeated warnings of the IOC and stage a podium protest

intrigued to see the response if asked whether they had a particular athlete in mind.To stage such a protest

 Before we even get to the question of a podium protest, Rapinoe has refused to sing the American

The IOC could have a protest on their hands before the Games even get under way properly.And what could

 She is now 34-years-old and so is unlikely to be playing at Paris 2024.


Looking back on the history of Olympic Games posters

  • The Big Read

A collection of 20 official Tokyo 2020 posters are set to go on public display for the first time at the Museum of Contemporary Art in the Olympic city this week.

"women of the épée".In 1900 a swordswoman was also depicted on a well known poster to advertise the Paris

year, the first women fencers were not seen at the Games until 1924, when they were also staged in Paris

as "International competitions in conjunction with the eighth Olympiad" – the number assigned to the Paris

Berlin and Garmisch Partenkirchen, although some countries produced striking anti-Olympic posters in protest


Judge monitoring system to be trialled at Tokyo 2020 boxing test event to "regain trust"

  • Tokyo 2020

A monitoring system for judges will be trialed during this week’s Tokyo 2020 boxing test event in a bid to help restore the confidence of boxers and coaches prior to next year’s Olympic Games.

boxing at Tokyo 2020 ©Getty ImagesAIBA, who have no involvement in Olympic preparations, introduced a protest

system for their recent men’s and women’s World Championship events in Russia.The protest system received

boxers who have failed to seal a place at Tokyo 2020 having one last chance at the final qualifier in Paris


Happy birthday to the International Olympic Committee - 125 today

  • The Big Read

It is the "the supreme authority and leadership" of a global movement which has more than 200 member nations and has endured world wars, decades of political boycotts, financial scandals and doping.

The great and good gathered at the Sorbonne in Paris and resolved to revive the Olympic Games which had

in 1896 were awarded to Athens after a speech by Dimitrios Vikelas, the Greek delegate who lived in Paris

Zealand rugby union team also triggered a boycott by African nations who called it an "an eloquent protest


CAF President Ahmad must stay in France following release from custody

  • Football

Confederation of African Football (CAF) President Ahmad Ahmad has been released by French authorities following his arrest over corruption charges yesterday.

Office for Combating Corruption and Financial and Tax Crimes (OCLCIFF) at the luxury Hotel de Berri in Paris

former President of the Liberian Football Association, Musa Bility, resigned from senior roles at CAF in protest

at how Ahmad was leading the governing body.Bility was in Paris for the FIFA Congress and has called


CAF President Ahmad arrested over corruption allegations

  • Football

Confederation of African Football (CAF) President Ahmad Ahmad is being questioned by French authorities over corruption allegations.

favour of an inflated deal with French company Tactical Steel, for the same equipment.Ahmad was in Paris

Association President Musa Bility resigned from senior roles at the Confederation of African Football in protest

former President of the Liberian Football Association, Musa Bility, resigned from senior roles at CAF in protest