US Olympic Committee officials are working on the possibility of Los Angeles being offered the 2028 Olympics while focusing on their 2024 bid, USOC chief executive officer Scott Blackmun said Tuesday. Speaking after the USOC’s board of directors meeting at Durham, North Carolina, Blackmun admitted his group has had to address the possibility the International … Read more
US Olympic speed skater Chris Creveling has been banned for four years after testing positive for a performance-enhancing substance, the United States Anti-Doping Agency announced on Monday. Creveling, a silver medallist in the 5000m relay at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, was caught with traces of the testosterone-boosting drug clomiphene in his system, the agency … Read more
Four countries, including Malaysia and Australia, have expressed interest in replacing Durban as host of the 2022 Commonwealth Games, the chief executive of the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) said on Friday. Canada and the United Kingdom also indicated they would be willing to stage the competition after Games chiefs stripped Durban of the event in … Read more
Sports tourists, who want to attend the Commonwealth Games scheduled for Gold Coast, Australia from April 4 to 15, 2018, will have to liaise with their countries’ National Olympic Committees (NOC) for easy access to entry visas and other documents they require to be part of the event, the organisers have advised. Speaking in Lagos … Read more
A senior IOC member apologised on Thursday after he compared the idea of banning doping-tainted Russia from next year’s Winter Olympics to the Holocaust. Gian Franco Kasper, an International Olympic Committee executive board member, said he was “truly sorry” for his comments to journalists in Pyeongchang, South Korea. “It was an inappropriate and insensitive comment,” … Read more
Africa will host a Commonwealth Games one day despite the blow of Durban being stripped of hosting the 2022 edition, David Grevemberg, the chief executive of The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF), told AFP. Durban lost the right to host the Games on Monday — just 18 months after being awarded them — when it failed … Read more
India has said it may bid for the 2022 Commonwealth Games after organisers stripped Durban of the event over its failure to meet key obligations. With memories still fresh of the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, which were plagued by delays and corruption, the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) said it was considering a repeat … Read more
Today, Microsoft announced that it will provide support to Mr. Isaac Otchere, a member of Special Olympics Ghana’s team. This will be done under the ambit of the Mission 3000 challenge -a Special Olympics initiative to support athletes competing in the 2017 Special Olympics World Winter Games in Austria. The Microsoft team is honoured to … Read more
Doping sanctions against Russia have been extended until further notice by the International Olympic Committee. Measures against the country were imposed in July after the first part of a World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada)-commissioned report found evidence of state-sponsored doping. Part two of the McLaren report will be published on Friday. Russian track and field athletes … Read more
Brazilian police say they want to speak to International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach about an alleged scheme to resell tickets during last month’s Rio Olympics. The police say Mr Bach is being treated as a witness, not a suspect. Officers have found e-mails from Mr Bach to another senior IOC official Patrick Hickey, … Read more