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Barcelona rules out bid for 2022 Winter Olympic Games 26 Oct 2013 - 12:35 am

MADRID: Barcelona mayor Xavier Tiras confirmed yesterday that the Catalan capital will not bid for the Winter Olympics in 2022, suggesting that the...

Russia takes Sochi 2014 torch to North Pole 26 Oct 2013 - 12:26 am

MOSCOW: Russia has lit the Olympic flame at the North Pole for the first time as part of a spectacular relay ahead of...

Olympics: Hosts Japan aiming high at Tokyo 2020 25 Oct 2013 - 04:24 am

TOKYO: Japan wants its athletes to double their best-ever medal haul at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, but experts warn the debt-laden nation will...

Coates to head Tokyo 2020 Coordination Commission 17 Oct 2013 - 07:11 am

LAUSANNE: Australian John Coates was yesterday named as chairman of the Coordination Commission for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, the International Olympic...

Putin kicks off Winter Olympics torch relay in Red Square 07 Oct 2013 - 10:19 am

Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a lit Olympic torch during a ceremony to mark the start of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic torch...

Russia receives Sochi Winter Games flame 06 Oct 2013 - 04:53 am

ATHENS: The flame that will burn at next year’s Sochi Winter Olympics was handed over to Russia yesterday in the marble stadium that...

Aussies look for ‘super’ athletes 02 Oct 2013 - 12:44 am

MELBOURNE: Australia will start a nationwide search to unearth promising athletes and boost the sports-mad country’s chances of winning Olympic gold in the...

Munich to bid for 2022 Winter Olympics 01 Oct 2013 - 12:40 am

BERLIN: Bavarian capital Munich, which hosted the 1972 Summer Olympics, will make a bid to stage the Winter Games half a century later...

Sochi in final stretch as flame lit in Olympia 29 Sep 2013 - 11:23 pm

President of the Greek Olympic Committee Spyros Kapralos (left) escorts International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach to attend a torch lighting ceremony...

Brazil audit shows Rio Games preparations off target 28 Sep 2013 - 05:03 am

RIO DE JANEIRO: An audit into the finances of the 2016 Rio Olympics shows preparations are behind schedule with earmarked state cash largely...

Samaranch feels Tokyo was awarded 2020 Olympics fairly 26 Sep 2013 - 12:08 am

Madrid:Spanish International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr. said that although Madrid is hurt for not being chosen as the host...

Scandal stunted sports’ commercial growth 24 Sep 2013 - 09:36 pm

LONDON: Marketing experts fondly recall Seoul 1988 as the Games when the Olympic movement put behind it political boycotts and started to develop...

Battle-weary China stars fall at Japan Open 19 Sep 2013 - 12:56 am

TOKYO: Women’s world number one Li Xuerui pulled out of the Japan Open yesterday with a sore knee and men’s number two Chen...

Naimova gets life ban for doping 18 Sep 2013 - 04:19 am

SOFIA: European indoor sprint champion Tezdzhan Naimova has been banned for life after testing positive for the banned steroid drostanolone, the Bulgarian athletics...

Olympics: Bach keen on radically changing bid city mentality 17 Sep 2013 - 01:30 am

PARIS: Newly-elected International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach will move into his new office in Lausanne, Switzerland, today with little fanfare but...

Leaving behind a lasting legacy 11 Sep 2013 - 04:33 am

BUENOS AIRES: Jacques Rogge stepped down as president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) eysterday having firmly imposed his ‘Mr Normal’ image on...

Triumphant Tokyo delegation returns to roll up sleeves 11 Sep 2013 - 04:33 am

TOKYO: A triumphant Tokyo governor Naoki Inose returned home to the cheers of thousands gathered in a plaza yesterday, thanking everyone for the...

Bach replaces Rogge as IOC boss 11 Sep 2013 - 04:31 am

F: Bach reflects on his victory at the IOC presidential elections in Buenos Aires yesterday. BUENOS AIRES: Thomas Bach achieved a long-held dream...