Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) secretary general Jassim Rashid Al-Buenain has been appointed as an Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) vice-president.
Doha will host the 2030 Asian Games and rival Riyadh will stage the event in 2034 following a vote at today's Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) General Assembly in Muscat.
Olympic Council of Asia President Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah is attempting to find a dual-award solution to ensure that both Riyadh and Doha host the Asian Games.
Riyadh 2030 is to launch a National Olympic Committee (NOC) Advisory Committee if its bid for the Asian Games is successful.
The Doha 2030 Asian Games Bid Committee has revealed more details about Project Legacy 21, a series of programmes that are planned to begin next year, on the eve of the host being announced for the event.
The Riyadh 2030 Bid Committee claims to have received "unwavering" public support - and now hopes to secure the backing of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) to stage the Asian Games in a decade’s time.
Doha 2030 has claimed it will deliver an "experience of a lifetime" should it succeed in its bid to host the Asian Games.
Two-time high jump world champion Mutaz Essa Barshim is among a group of Qatari athletes to back Doha's bid for the 2030 Asian Games.
The committee behind Riyadh's bid for the 2030 Asian Games has launched a new initiative to increase the level of physical activity among young people in Saudi Arabia.
Plans are in place to launch an athletes' academy and an Asian Sports Confederation as Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh bids to stage the 2030 Asian Games.
Young Qatari athletes including Youth Olympic Games gold medallists have been named onto a new working group created by the Doha 2030 Asian Games bid committee.
The organisers of the Doha 2030 bid for the Asian Games have held regional virtual workshops with National Olympic Committees (NOCs), to demonstrate to nations what they intend to offer in 10 years' time.
A sustainability initiative called Green Riyadh has been backed by the Saudi Arabian capital's bid for the 2030 Asian Games.
The Doha 2030 Asian Games Bid Committee has celebrated two years to go until the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, highlighting how the tournament and its venues could help with hosting the Games eight years later.
Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) Evaluation Committee chair Andrey Kryukov is "confident" Doha can stage a "successful" 2030 Asian Games due to its vast experience in hosting major events.
Canadian show jumper Ian Millar holds the record for the most Olympic appearances by an athlete in any sport. When he competed at London 2012 at the age of 65 it was the tenth time he had competed in the Games since making his debut 30 years earlier at Munich 1972. He had won his only Olympic medal at Beijing 2008 when he was part of Canada’s team that took silver in the team jumping event. Millar won a gold medal in the Pan American Games team jumping event at Toronto 2015. He announced his retirement in 2019.
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The coronavirus pandemic forced a near global shutdown of sport across the world, but sports governing bodies have staged successful events despite the COVID-19 crisis. Mike Rowbottom speaks to those who have been able to do so.
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