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IOC President Thomas Bach stands between Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, left, and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garrett after handing Paris and Los Angeles the right to host summer Olympics in 2024 and 2028 respectively. (Photo: AP)

IOC elects Paris and Los Angeles to host 2024 and 2028 summer Olympics

While celebrating the decision, Paris and Los Angeles both expressed their excitement in bringing home the Olympic...

14 Sept 2017 12:02 PM IST

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and his wife Amy Elaine Wakeland arrive at the opening ceremony of the 131st International Olympic Committee session in Lima, Peru. (Photo: AFP)

High costs barrier for Paris

Vladimir Andreff, a sports economist at Paris' Sorbonne university, described Olympic budget inflation as the curse of...

14 Sept 2017 1:36 AM IST

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach stands between Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, left, and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garrett at the end of the IOC session in Lima, Peru, on Wednesday. (Photo: AP)

Paris, Los Angeles confirmed as Olympic hosts

The 2024 Games will mark the third time Paris has staged the Olympics, coming exactly 100 years after they last hosted...

14 Sept 2017 12:09 AM IST

Mary Kom, who claimed her sixth world title last year in Delhi, will be looking to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in the World Championships in Yekaterinburg, Russia. (Photo:AP)

Mary Kom named in IOC's boxing athlete ambassadors group from Asian...

The 36-year-old, earlier this year, surpassed herself as the most successful boxer in the history of the world...

31 Oct 2019 2:33 PM IST

India can now move forward with bidding for hosting rights to various international sporting events, like the 2032 Olympics (Photo: AFP)

IOA rejects new Draft National Sports Code, says might lead to IOC...

India will incur the IOC's wrath if it goes ahead with administrative reforms enshrined in the Draft National Sports...

11 Nov 2019 7:19 PM IST

Shooting World Cup is a qualification competition for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 in which direct quotas are earned by the respective National Olympic Committees (NOCs). (Photo: AFP)

IOC 'suspends discussions' with India for hosting global events

The decision came after IOC was informed that the Indian government authorities failed to grant an entry visa to the...

22 Feb 2019 11:48 AM IST

India can now move forward with bidding for hosting rights to various international sporting events, like the 2032 Olympics (Photo: AFP)

India to revive bid to host 2032 Olympics

The Indian government ensured the IOC that VISAs will now be granted to sportspersons from every country without...

19 Jun 2019 2:27 PM IST

From street to Olympics

From street to Olympics

With breakdancing on the brink of being a part of the Summer Olympics, breakers and other dancers have good reason to...

7 July 2019 2:34 AM IST

Tokyo Olympics rescheduled for same dates next year

This year's Games were scheduled to open on July 24 and close on August 9

30 March 2020 5:59 PM IST

Athletes qualified for Tokyo 2020 will keep 2021 spots: Sources

Around 57 per cent of the 11,000 scheduled participants for Tokyo had already made sure of taking part before the Games...

27 March 2020 9:16 AM IST

A general view of the arena during day three of the Boxing Road to Tokyo 2020 Olympic qualifying event in London. AP Photo

IOC gives itself clean chit over virus spread at London boxing event

Organisers said it was not possible to know the source of infection as participants were in training camps before...

26 March 2020 8:15 PM IST

Tokyo Olympics: Looking for a new date for opening, closing

That done, the International Olympic Committee, the Japanese government and Tokyo organizers can go ahead with other...

26 March 2020 4:16 PM IST