Probe of IOC's Takeda hangs over Tokyo Olympics
Saturday, 12 January 2019, 11:02
Last update: about 9 years ago
Associated Press
A month ago, Tsunekazu Takeda was warmly applauded by 1,400 Olympic dignitaries as he spoke alongside International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach in Tokyo. A month later, the powerful...
Milan-Cortina bid can revolutionise Olympics
Saturday, 12 January 2019, 10:36
Last update: about 9 years ago
Associated Press
It starts with the name — featuring two cities as opposed to the usual one — and involves venues dotted across a large swath of northern Italy stretching from Milan to the...
Russian court says bobsledder can keep Olympic titles
Friday, 11 January 2019, 20:44
Last update: about 9 years ago
Associated Press
Russian bobsledder Alexander Zubkov won a Moscow court ruling on Friday that could make it harder for the International Olympic Committee to recover his gold medals. The Russian flagbearer at the...
WADA starts work on copying doping data in Moscow lab
Friday, 11 January 2019, 17:15
Last update: about 9 years ago
Associated Press
World Anti-Doping Agency experts have started the process of copying data from a Moscow laboratory that could implicate numerous Russian athletes in past drug cases. "Work has started with the...
IOC marketing chair from Japan investigated for corruption
Friday, 11 January 2019, 16:20
Last update: about 9 years ago
Associated Press
In the latest blow to the International Olympic Committee's efforts to rid itself of scandal, marketing head Tsunekazu Takeda is being investigated for corruption related to the 2020 Tokyo...
Stockholm meets deadline to submit bid for 2026 Olympics
Friday, 11 January 2019, 16:20
Last update: about 9 years ago
Associated Press
Sweden's Olympic leaders met a deadline Friday to submit a 2026 Winter Games hosting plan after satisfying concerns of lawmakers in Stockholm which threatened to end the bid last year. The...
Russian curler Krushelnitsky drops plans for doping appeal
Friday, 11 January 2019, 14:11
Last update: about 9 years ago
Associated Press
The Russian curler stripped of a bronze medal for doping at last year's Winter Olympics, Alexander Krushelnitsky, has dropped plans to appeal against his four-year ban. Krushelnitsky's agent,...
German skier stripped of World Cup win for oxygen tank use
Thursday, 10 January 2019, 14:10
Last update: about 9 years ago
Associated Press
The International Ski Federation has disqualified Stefan Luitz from his first World Cup win for inhaling from an oxygen tank between giant slalom runs. FIS says the German racer will lose his...
Russia says 'understanding' reached on doping data for WADA
Wednesday, 9 January 2019, 18:03
Last update: about 9 years ago
Associated Press
The Kremlin says there is "understanding" on how crucial data on drug use by Russian athletes will be handed over to the World Anti-Doping Agency, whose representatives arrived in Moscow on...