The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Laureus Sport for Good have announced a ground-breaking collaboration that will see both organisations each invest $1 million into a two-year programme to advance youth education and employability through sport in Africa.
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Aug 31, 2018 13:08
BHUBANESWAR: Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik announced on Thursday that his government will sponsor Asian Games 2018 Silver medallist Dutee Chand for her training keeping the Tokyo Olympics 2020 in mind, Press Trust of India reports.
Aug 30, 2018 13:08
MUMBAI: India’s Gold medallists in wrestling at the Commonwealth Games and the Asian Games 2018, Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat, are amongst a list of champion athletes in the country who are in the race to win the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, the country's highest sporting honour this year, Press Trust of India reports.
Aug 21, 2018 15:08
JAKARTA: Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) President Shaikh Ahmed Al-Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah has said that India will get to host a third Asian Games if the country "shows interest".
India hosted the first ever Asian Games in New Delhi in 1951 and then again in 1982. Since then, Commonwealth Games in 2010, remains the only international multi-sport event that India has hosted.
Aug 20, 2018 16:08
JAKARTA: Kuwait Olympic Committee was welcomed back into the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) at the 37th OCA General Assembly on Sunday.
However, Kuwait was warned by the OCA today to stop its "world record" of government interference in sport or face being exiled for a third time.
Aug 16, 2018 14:08
VIJAYANAGAR, KARNATAKA: The JSW Group inaugurated the Inspire Institute of Sport (IIS), India’s first privately-funded high-performance training institute, at Vijaynagar in Karnataka’s Ballari district on Wednesday.
Aug 11, 2018 18:08
MUMBAI: India’s retired champion shooter Abhinav Bindra has been appointed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as a member of its prestigious Athletes’ Commission.
Aug 08, 2018 18:08
TOKYO: Japanese Minister Shunichi Suzuki has claimed that hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2020 in the country would cost 1.35 trillion Japanese Yen ($121.7 billion), Japan Times reports. The city of Tokyo and the Organizing Committee of the Games will be contributing 600 billion Yen ($54 billion) each while the national government will be granting a subsidy of 150 billion Yen ($1.35 billion).
Aug 08, 2018 18:08
TOKYO: The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) announced on Tuesday that a face recognition system will be used to verify the identity of athletes, officials and other staff members as well as media representatives at both the events.
Aug 06, 2018 16:08
MUMBAI: Rental car company Ola Cabs announced Monday on Twitter that it will team up with JSW Sports to launch their nationwide #RoadforGold campaign over 110 cities with Akshay Kumar and Mouni Roy, the stars from the upcoming hockey-based movie ‘Gold’.
Aug 01, 2018 15:08
ZURICH: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced on Tuesday that Visa, one of the world’s top financial services companies will remain in its ‘TOP’ programme of sponsors till 2032. It was in 1986 that Visa was one of the founding members of the programme, becoming its global sponsor in the process as well.