Hannah, you are a disappointment
There's a time and place to be a 'sporting' minister.
Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh up for Olympic membership
She is one of eight new proposed members for the International Olympic Committee.
Paris 2024 Olympics flame to be lit on April 16, 2024, source says
The flame will be lit at Greece's ancient Olympia, birthplace of the Games, and will remain in the country for about a week before a handover ceremony in Athens and departure to France.
IOC rules on participation 'unacceptable', says Russian Olympic head
He opposes any notion of Russian and Belarusian athletes competing as neutrals with no use of flags or anthems allowed.
Japan's biggest ad agency indicted in growing Olympic scandal
The indictment followed the arrest this month of a senior Tokyo 2020 organising committee official and three others who were accused of rigging a string of Olympic Games-related tenders.
UK, 30 others vow support for ban on Russian, Belarusian athletes
The move increases the pressure on the International Olympic Committee, which is desperate to avoid the 2024 Paris Olympics being torn asunder by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Zelensky says Russian athletes at Olympics a 'manifestation of violence'
The Ukrainian president argues that very few Russian athletes have spoken out against the war.
Ex-Tokyo Olympics official, ad execs arrested in bid-rigging scandal
The arrests come after months of investigations into alleged corruption in the planning and sponsorship of the international sporting event that was held in 2021 after a pandemic-driven postponement.
Malaysian athletes of mixed parentage from overseas may be considered for Paris Olympics
The 2024 Paris Gold Programme Monitoring Committee also lays out other criteria for athlete selection.
Beijing Olympics close after golden moments and doping storm
Chinese organisers will be quick to hail the success of the vast Covid-secure 'bubble' that enveloped the Games, with up to 70,000 people sealed off.
IOC chief Bach ‘disturbed’ by Valieva’s Olympic performance
The World Anti-Doping Agency is looking into Valieva's entourage, after the doping controversy tarnished the second week of the Games in the Chinese capital.
Russian Valieva had three drugs for heart conditions in sample, says report
The teenager tested positive at her national championships on Dec 25 but the result was not revealed until Feb 8, after she had already competed at the Beijing Games in the team event.
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