(ATR) With the deadline to apply this week, the city of Fukuoka in southern Japan has submitted a formal application to the Japanese Olympic Committee to bid for the 2016 Olympics. Mayor Hirotaro ...

Image Credit: Hockey India-X New Delhi: India officially made the bid to host the 2036 edition of the Olympics and Paralympics Games in the nation. The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) on October ...

Japan speedster Kenki Fukuoka reportedly will forego the chance to compete in rugby sevens at the postponed Tokyo Olympics in order to pursue a medical career. The Japan Rugby Union announced ...

Congratulations to the 2034 Olympic bid committee on the successful Olympics bid. And congratulations to the committee for again keeping Big and Little Cottonwood Canyons free of Olympic events ...

Lead by swimming legend Katie Ledecky, the Team USA women's swim team is looking for gold over the next couple weeks at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games ... day three of the Fukuoka 2023 World ...

Olympic athletes may one day compete in Minneapolis. Mayor R.T. Rybak asked a city organization Wednesday to look into a possible bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics. The city has never hosted the ...

The Spanish sports site Relevo says Doha bid parties and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) are close to finalising details over hosting the 2036 Olympic Games. India’s Prime Minister ...

A former senior official of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee pleaded guilty on July 5 to rigging bids for pre-Olympic test events and actual competitions in the 2021 Summer Games. Yasuo Mori ...

BERN – Switzerland’s government pledged its support for a local bid for the 2038 Winter Olympics, which vows to use only existing facilities, spread the Games across the whole country and draw ...

A dying breed elsewhere in Japan, in Fukuoka, they’re thriving ... Ahead of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, however, the powers that be decided it was time for a spruce-up; makeshift street-food ...

Emma Finucane says winning Olympic gold on her Games debut boosts her confidence as she bids for a hat-trick of successes in Paris. Great Britain's long-awaited return to the women's team sprint ...

She is expected to defend her 800 gold in Paris and bid to ... titles in Olympic swimming. She won her sixth consecutive world title in the 800 at last year's championships in Fukuoka, Japan.