NEW DELHI: Special Olympics Bharat has appointed former ONGC executive director V.K. Mahendru as its executive director.
In his new role, Mahendru will oversee all aspects of the organisation and management, while also serving as a mentor.
Olympics
Mar 18, 2020 18:03
TOKYO: In the face of major sports organisations across the world either canceling or postponing major events in the face of the spiralling COVID-19 pandemic, the biggest of them all - the International Olympic Committee - on Tuesday remained steadfast in its messaging that the Tokyo 2020 Olympics would go ahead on scheduled and there was "no need for any drastic decisions at this stage".
Mar 17, 2020 12:03
THE INTERNATIONAL Olympic Committee's point man for the Tokyo Games has insisted there's no deadline to call off the event and that it was still going ahead as planned.
John Coates, chairman of the Tokyo coordination commission, was speaking before his return from Switzerland to Australia, where he is facing a mandatory two-week quarantine.
Mar 12, 2020 18:03
NEW DELHI: After a record nine Indian boxers qualified for the Tokyo Olympics 2020, the Boxing Federation of India president Ajay Singh on Wednesday said the number of quotas achieved in the first qualification event shows the potential our boxers possess.
Mar 11, 2020 17:03
LAUSANNE: A few days after having made landmark decisions demonstrating that gender equality is a reality at the Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has taken a leadership role in the UN Women Sports for Generation Equality Initiative, which aims to advance gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in and through sport.
Mar 05, 2020 19:03
MUMBAI: Mumbai will host the International Olympic Committee (IOC) session in 2023, IOC president Thomas Bach has said. The decision will be ratified at the 136th IOC session in Tokyo in July.
Mar 05, 2020 17:03
LAUSANNE: The executive board (EB) of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Wednesday made two key decisions to draw even more attention to gender equality at the Olympic Summer Games, starting with Tokyo 2020.
Mar 05, 2020 17:03
LAUSANNE: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Wednesday announced that the Olympic Games and Olympic Winter Games will be climate positive from 2030 onwards.
In addition, the IOC will create an Olympic Forest, which will contribute to the UN-backed Great Green Wall project in Africa and help the IOC move towards becoming a climate-positive organisation.
Mar 03, 2020 20:03
TOKYO: As concerns increased that Japan's dream of hosting the Olympic Games could be a fatality of the spread of the new coronavirus, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Tuesday expressed its full commitment to the success of the Games and Japan’s Olympic Minister raised the possibility of Tokyo 2020's dates being "adjusted".
Mar 02, 2020 19:03
MUMBAI: Even as growing fears related to the global spread of coronavirus is leading to the cancellation (at worst) or postponement (at best) of events across sporting disciplines, the Union Sports Ministry is “looking afresh” at the training and competition programmes abroad in an Olympic year.
Feb 27, 2020 19:02
MUMBAI: Close on the heels of the Badminton World Federation postponing the Vietnam International Challenge 2020, due to continued concerns over the Covid-19 outbreak, the BWF has postponed the YONEX German Open 2020 and the Polish Open 2020 – further reducing the number of Olympic qualifiers.