Japan set to place four more prefectures under tighter COVID-19 restrictions

Four more Japanese prefectures are set to be placed under tighter COVID-19 restrictions to combat a rise in case numbers in the Olympic and Paralympic host country.
Four more Japanese prefectures are set to be placed under tighter COVID-19 restrictions to combat a rise in case numbers in the Olympic and Paralympic host country.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has set a May 26 deadline for World Sailing to propose alternative events to the mixed offshore at Paris 2024 after uncovering concerns with the discipline.
Customers who bought individual tickets for the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games from authorised reseller CoSport risk not receiving their money back if they fail to return their refund request form by the end of this week.
Paris 2024 has signed up technology conglomerate Cisco as its third official partner of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in the French capital.
The "neutral" Russian team at this year's postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games is set to wear a controversial uniform featuring the colours of the country's flag, which is banned due to doping sanctions.
A long-term strategic plan, encompassing two Olympic cycles, has been launched by the Bhutan Olympic Committee (BOC).
With qualifying for this year's re-arranged Olympic Games in Tokyo, or sharpening up for them, very much in mind, a field of almost 200 pentathletes from 41 nations is ready to go again tomorrow in the second of the back-to-back International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) World Cup events in Sofia.
Acting Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) President Robin Mitchell expects Tokyo 2020 will be a "Games like none before" as he pledged to ensure the NOC voice was heard in the lead-up to the Opening Ceremony.
A new campaign recognising the diversity of America’s Olympic and Paralympic athletes, has been launched by the United States Olympic & Paralympic (USOPC) Committee.
Racewalker Priyanka Goswami, who is set to compete at Tokyo 2020, is reportedly among five Indian track and field athletes that have tested positive for coronavirus.
Tokyo Medical Association chair Haruo Ozaki has warned staging this year’s rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games will be "really difficult" amid growing concerns over a resurgence of the coronavirus pandemic in Japan.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission chairman John Coates has claimed public opinion in Japan over the staging of Tokyo 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic will improve in the 100 days before the scheduled opening of the rearranged Olympic Games.
Host-nation Japan looks set for by far its strongest-ever showing at a Summer Olympics if Tokyo 2020 is able to proceed as rescheduled in July and August.
Tunisian National Olympic Committee (CNOT) President Mehrez Boussayene has called on the country’s Ministry of Youth and Sport to provide increased support with a strategic plan cited as one of his aims.
The Olympic Flame has been carried through a virtually empty Commemorative Park in Osaka Prefecture in the first major change forced on the Torch Relay by the COVID-19 pandemic.