As the Olympic world hurtled towards the postponement this week, Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Tarō Asō spoke of a 40-year Olympic cycle. He recalled the Moscow 1980 Games, when Japan joined a boycott, and looked even further back to 1940, when Tokyo was awarded the Olympics but they never took place.

a Sunday - was to be the first day of competition.The morning began with canoeing, fencing, modern pentathlon

International Federations have expressed unanimous support for the decision to postpone this year's Olympic Games in Tokyo to 2021.

International Union of Modern Pentathlon (UIPM) President Klaus Schormann urged "we must all take drastic

Prince Albert II has tested positive for the coronavirus, the Monaco Royal Palace has announced.

among the latest sporting competitions to be impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.International Modern Pentathlon

International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) President Klaus Schormann has expressed his confidence that

Stadium and Minsk-Arena.Schormann spoke about the recently-approved "dynamic new format" for modern pentathlon

implemented in time for the 2022 Youth Olympic Games in Dakar and 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.Modern pentathlon

The International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) has postponed the remainder of its World Cup season

set for South Korea's capital from May 14 to 17.The UIPM said it currently planned to hold the Modern Pentathlon

We need to do all we can to protect the Olympic qualification process in modern pentathlon so that all

The plethora of comment, support, celebration and information marking yesterday’s International Women’s Day included, as one would expect, a huge amount of material in the sporting realm.

/wC3brrJwrh— Telegraph Women’s Sport (@WomensSport) March 8, 2020Meanwhile the International Modern Pentathlon

“I knew that I was potentially in with a shout of winning a medal, but with a sport like Modern Pentathlon

landmark point”, adding: “I knew that a lot of people had been campaigning long and hard to get Women’s Pentathlon

And in some ways, particularly because the sport of Modern Pentathlon had been created by Baron Pierre

Olympics.”Britain's Steph Cook takes in the historic achievement of becoming the first woman to win Modern Pentathlon

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced the winners of its six Women and Sport Awards, with one a world award and the others each representing one of the five Olympic regions.

, Chiller was the country first female Chef de Mission for Rio 2016 and formerly competed in modern pentathlon

Egypt clinched gold and silver at the International Modern Pentathlon Union World Cup in Cairo.

highlights video which brings together all the best moments from the Mixed Relay Final at the UIPM 2020 Pentathlon

#WorldCupCairo #Modernpentathlon pic.twitter.com/r9TlFfBezf— UIPM - World Pentathlon (@WorldPentathlon

Ádám Marosi of Hungary secured his first International Modern Pentathlon Union World Cup victory for

#WorldCupCairo— UIPM - World Pentathlon (@WorldPentathlon) February 29, 2020The bronze medal was claimed

Britain's Joanna Muir claimed victory in the women's final at the season-opening International Modern Pentathlon

season.Huge congratulations to Joanna Muir, who took Gold during the Women's Final at the UIPM 2020 Pentathlon

#WorldCupCairo #Modernpentathlon pic.twitter.com/VVd0t34uQd— UIPM - World Pentathlon (@WorldPentathlon

FBD Insurance have launched a campaign celebrating Irish Olympic heroes as part of the company’s sponsorship of Team Ireland.

badminton player Nhat Nyugen are also included, as are a number of Irish sportspeople across modern pentathlon

The National Olympic Committee of Kazakhstan (NOC Kazakhstan) has re-elected Saken Mussaibekov as secretary general at the organisation’s General Assembly.

Abykaev and Danial Akhmetov, the Presidents of Kazakhstan’s athletics and volleyball federations.Modern Pentathlon

Spain's Aleix Heredia Vives topped men's qualification at the International Modern Pentathlon Union World

qualification standings in front of a home crowd as action began today at the International Modern Pentathlon

The first International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) World Cup of the season is set to take place in