Finding athletes who embody both meanings of the word "champion" was high on Panasonic North America's list of priorities when choosing ambassadors for is Tokyo 2020 campaign.
Achieving a world record at the Olympic Games is the ultimate track and field achievement, but as the athletics programme gets underway tomorrow morning at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, a little short of five years since the last one in Rio de Janeiro, it is prospective personal rivalries that command attention.
The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) has moved the Under-18 Baseball World Cup in Florida to 2022 due to the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The International Fair Play Committee (CIFP) has called for nominations for Tokyo 2020 Fair Play Awards.
Organisers of the Rugby League World Cup 2021 (RLWC2021) are set to make a call on the tournament's future in the next week.
A statue of Clyde, the thistle mascot for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, has been retrieved from a garden by police in Glasgow, ending a seven-year search.
Olympic taekwondo champion Panipak Wongpattanakit, the first Thai athlete to medal at Tokyo 2020, returned home to a hero's welcome from adoring fans and the promise of almost THB20 million (£435,700/$608,000/€512,700).
Gold Coast has been confirmed as host the World Bowls Championships in 2023, three years after the city was originally supposed to stage the competition.
After winning a silver medal at Tokyo 2020, India's Mirabai Chanu is hungry for more success in 2022 and targeting the Asian Games.
Former Kazakhstan ice hockey player Yevgeni Pupkov, who represented his country at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games, has died at the age of 45 from coronavirus.
The United States' ski season begins at Utah Olympic Park with USA Nordic's National Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined Championships.
Grant Manzoney, Caitlin Dransfield and Wayne Phipps have all been selected to make Paralympic debuts for Australia at Tokyo 2020.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has revealed that the World Test Championship (WTC) Final was the most-watched match of any in the WTC competition.
Members of the Lake Placid 2023 Organising Committee staff have lent a hand at a local Ironman race, volunteering their time and observing the event as preparations for hosting the Winter World University Games continue.
World Netball has revealed a "Your Netball World" mosaic to mark two years until the Netball World Cup in Cape Town.
Denver were awarded the 1976 Winter Olympic Games ahead of Sion in Switzerland, Tempere in Finland and Vancouver in Canada at the International Olympic Committee Session in 1970. But in a Colorado referendum in November 1972, voters rejected funding for the event. It is the only time a city has been awarded the Olympics but pulled out. The IOC then offered the Games to Whistler in Canada, but they too declined owing to a change of Government following elections. Salt Lake City offered to host the Games, but the IOC, still reeling from the Denver rejection, declined and selected Innsbruck, the 1964 host city, as a replacement.
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The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games are not the first to be impacted by quarantine rules. Philip Barker tells the story of the Melbourne 1956 Games, where the equestrian events were held in Stockholm.
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