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US accuses alleged GRU officials of cyberattacks on the Olympic Games, US businesses and French election.
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New PM Yoshihide Suga says Japan is determined to host Olympics ‘as proof humanity has defeated’ COVID-19 pandemic.
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More than 160 human rights groups representing Tibet, Uighurs, Hong Kong and others ask IOC to...
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Qatar Olympic Committee formally requests to join ‘continuous dialogue’ to host the Games as early as...
Thursday marks one year before the next summer Olympics, Tokyo ‘202ONE’.
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Human Rights Watch report alleges physical, verbal and sexual abuse of young athletes across 50 different sports.
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Olympians and other professional athletes join fans online to mark the 126th anniversary of the IOC.
Postponed Olympics would be cancelled if Japan is unable to stage it in 2021 amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Global athletics boss tells Al Jazeera his organisation is doing everything it can to keep up the fight against drug cheating despite coronavirus restrictions.
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Pushing trucks, fencing tennis balls and homemade gyms: How three British athletes are adapting to lockdown.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announces more restrictions on cabinet meetings as Tokyo expands overseas travel ban.
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Organisers confirm new dates for the 2020 Games that have been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Japan has maintained an infection rate lower than many other countries but had to postpone the Olympic Games.
Japan’s Olympic Games is the latest event to be postponed or cancelled.