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Pandemic delays new NWHL season until 2021

  • Ice Hockey

The upcoming National Women's Hockey League (NWHL) season has been delayed until 2021 because of the coronavirus crisis.

set to be located in Calgary, Toronto and Montreal in Canada, and New Hampshire and Minnesota in the United

States.


Liam Morgan: Could the IOC have helped oversee a unanimous approach to elections during the pandemic?

  • Inside the Blogs

World Sailing currently stands alone in a sea of International Federations (IFs) who have been contemplating the effect of COVID-19 on their elections.

their terms after postponing their electoral Congresses.Four others, the International Triathlon Union, United

candidates from working with consultants and communications agencies during the campaign.The document states




Los Angeles 2028 chief Wasserman joins calls for Rule 50 to be amended

  • Los Angeles 2028

Los Angeles 2028 chairperson Casey Wasserman has reportedly written to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to advocate for changes to be made to the controversial Rule 50 of the Olympic Charter.

Olympic Charter to allow anti-racist advocacy on the Olympic stage".Rule 50 of the Olympic Charter states

January, competitors who demonstrate at the Games have been threatened with disciplinary action.The United

States Olympic and Paralympic Committee Athletes' Advisory Council is one of numerous bodies to have


Claims that Muhammad Ali Atlanta 1996 Torch donated to IOC "not the original"

  • Collecting and Heritage News

A Torch donated to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), said to be used by Muhammad Ali to light the Olympic Cauldron at Atlanta 1996, may not be the original version.

NYSportsJournalism.Its authenticity is being disputed as the Muhammad Ali Museum, based in Kentucky in the United

States, claims that it houses the original as part of its collection."



Exclusive: IOC Athletes’ Commission considering Opening Ceremony minute’s silence as protest solution for Tokyo 2020

  • Tokyo 2020

A minute’s silence at the Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics is one of the options being considered within International Olympic Committee (IOC) circles as the debate intensifies over Rule 50, which currently forbids political protests made at any Olympic sites.

Randall also sits on the Board of the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee, whose Athletes’


Commonwealth Games boxing champion Krishan to return to professional ranks before Tokyo 2020

  • Boxing

Commonwealth Games middleweight champion Vikas Krishan has revealed his intention to return to the professional ranks prior to the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Olympics next year.

imposed because of the coronavirus pandemic, told the Press Trust of India he planned to train in the United

States before the Games.The 28-year-old said he would not be returning to the NIS facility and aims


Philip Barker: Why Tokyo 2020 can take heart from the 1970 Summer Universiade

  • Inside the Blogs

This should have been the end of the first week of competition at Tokyo 2020, but the Olympic arenas have of course been silent. Olympic organisers may draw some measure of encouragement that 50 years ago another major international multi-sport event which was successfully staged one year later than planned. The Universiade was originally scheduled for 1969 but it finally took place in 1970.

Olympic-standard squads to Turin and in the final the Soviet Union beat the defending champions from the United

States.


Madrid to host FIBA Under-19 Women's Basketball World Cup in 2023

  • Basketball

Madrid has been announced as the host of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Under-19 Women's Basketball World Cup in 2023.

history of hosting FIBA events, including the 2018 Women’s Basketball World Cup in Tenerife, where the United

States overcame Australia in the final.Zaragoza in Spain also staged the Under-17 Basketball World Cup

beat Serbia to win the 2014 World Cup, with 13,673 watching the final in the Spanish capital.United States

won the 2019 tournament in Bangkok ©FIBAUnited States are the holders of the Under-19 Women's Basketball



Criminal proceedings opened against FIFA President Infantino in Switzerland

  • Football

Criminal proceedings against FIFA President Gianni Infantino have been launched in Switzerland, it was announced today.

nbsp;"People have been convicted and sentenced, thanks to FIFA’s cooperation, and especially in the United

States of America, where our cooperation has resulted in over 40 criminal convictions.


Iroquois Nationals could be thrown World Games lifeline as organisers try to resolve lacrosse row

  • Birmingham 2022

World Lacrosse has confirmed that they are working with the Organising Committee of the 2022 World Games to change the format of the sport's competition to allow indigenous groups to take part.

Scheduled to take place in the city of Birmingham in the state of Alabama in the United States, a recent

follows the regulations of the International Olympic Committee which in article 30 of the Olympic Charter states


Tokyo 2020 to "listen and learn" from sporting events to aid development of coronavirus countermeasures

  • Tokyo 2020

Tokyo 2020 have promised it will "listen and learn" from sporting events which have resumed in Japan and internationally, as organisers seek to develop "robust countermeasures" against coronavirus by the conclusion of the year.

raised over the differing situations in countries over controlling the pandemic, with the Brazil and the United

States seeing continued high numbers of infections."