The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Laureus Sport for Good have announced a ground-breaking collaboration that will see both organisations each invest $1 million into a two-year programme to advance youth education and employability through sport in Africa.
Olympics
Feb 08, 2018 11:02
LAUSANNE: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Wednesday announced that the Olympic Channel will live stream the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018 across India and the sub-continent, including Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
Feb 06, 2018 16:02
LAUSANNE: “The New Norm”, an ambitious set of 118 reforms that reimagines how the Olympic Games are delivered, was presented to the membership of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) at its 132nd Session.
Feb 05, 2018 09:02
LAUSANNE: Boxing could be excluded from the 2020 Tokyo Games if the sport doesn’t sort out its governance and finance issues, International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach warned on Sunday.
Feb 03, 2018 17:02
MUMBAI: Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group has launched its first global advertising campaign for the upcoming PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games.
The campaign titled “To the Greatness of Small,” features three commercials that illustrate how one small action can touch millions of people, how small moments of character can inspire the world, and how the underdog can achieve great things.
Feb 02, 2018 17:02
LONDON: As home of the Olympics in Europe, Discovery and its leading sports brand Eurosport are on track to deliver the Olympic Winter Games to more people, across more screens than ever before.
To match that ambition and provide a more complete picture of the popularity and importance of the Olympic Games, the company has developed a methodology to measure audience behavior across Europe.
Jan 30, 2018 14:01
NEW DELHI: Hero Electronix and Hero FinCorp, part of the $10 billion Hero Group, Tuesday announced they would be sponsoring luge athlete Shiva Keshavan at the upcoming PyeongChang Winter Olympics 2018.
Jan 27, 2018 10:01
LAUSANNE: The foundation board of the International Testing Agency (ITA), along with its chair Dr Valérie Fourneyron, held its first meeting here Thursday, which marks a further step on the organisation’s road to becoming fully operational in early 2018.
Jan 23, 2018 11:01
LAUSANNE: IOC president Thomas Bach has announced that a delegation from the National Olympic Committee (NOC) of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) will participate at the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018. Under the “Olympic Korean Peninsula Declaration”, the IOC will grant accreditations to the NOC of the DPRK for 22 athletes in 3 sports and 5 disciplines.
Jan 19, 2018 12:01
LAUSANNE: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Thursday announced that more than 14,000 doping tests have been undertaken on over 6,000 athletes from 61 countries to safeguard the upcoming Olympic Winter Games that open in PyeongChang, Republic of Korea, on 9th February.
Jan 13, 2018 16:01
NEW DELHI: The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) on Friday appointed Pawandeep Singh Kohli, son of veteran sports administrator Tarlochan Singh, to a second successive term as chairman of its medical commission.