COSTA NAVARINO, Greece (AP) — Kirsty Coventry was elected president of the International Olympic Committee on Thursday, March 20, and became the first woman and first African to get perhaps the biggest job in world sports. IOC President Thomas Bach, right, greets Kirsty Coventry after she was...
COSTA NAVARINO, Greece (AP) — Boxing is set to be on the program for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles after years of disputes over how the sport is run. International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach speaks during a press conference, ahead of the 144th session which will elect the new IOC...
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Thomas Bach says he feels a rare calm in his final weeks as IOC president even as a “new world order" gains speed ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach talks to the Associated Press during an interview at...
LYON, France (AP) — Just five years before the opening ceremony, French organizers of the 2030 Winter Games put on a united front Tuesday, Feb. 18, to unveil the team given the tightest schedule of any modern Olympics. Head of 2030 Olympic Winter Games, Edgar Grospiron, delivers a speech during a...
Filipino-American short track speed skater Peter Groseclose has been selected as one of the recipients of Olympic Solidarity Scholarship from the IOC, the Philippine Skating Union (PHSU) announced Thursday, Jan. 23. Filipino-American short track speed skater Peter Groseclose (POC)...
TOKYO (AP) — Olympic sponsor Panasonic is terminating its contract with the IOC at the end of the year, the company said in a statement Tuesday, Sept. 10. Panasonic is one of 15 companies that are so-called TOP sponsors for the International Olympic Committee. It’s not known the value of the...
VILLEPINTE, France (AP) — The head of the governing body that hopes to run the next Olympic boxing tournament said he supports the IOC’s eligibility policies at the Paris Olympics, and he urged those without deep understandings of gender issues to entrust those determinations to medical...
PARIS (AP) — Two female boxers at the Paris Olympics who were disqualified at the 2023 world championships after being judged to have failed gender eligibility tests have complied with all rules to fight at the games, the IOC said Monday, July 29. Algeria's Imane Khelif (AP) Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan...
PARIS (AP) — France will get just a partial Olympic win on Wednesday, July 24, when its bid to host the 2030 Winter Games is presented to IOC members. International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach (AP) International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach confirmed Tuesday, July 23, that...
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has dismissed the appeal filed by the International Boxing Association against the decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) withdrawing recognition of IBA as the international federation for the sport of boxing. The CAS verdict that effectively...
MOSCOW (AFP) -- Russia launched a furious tirade at the International Olympic Committee on Wednesday, March 20, arguing the IOC's restrictions on Russian athletes and its criticism of the Moscow-organized Friendship Games amounted to "neo-Nazism". The IOC on Tuesday both barred Russian...
LAUSANNE (AFP) -- Olympic chiefs announced on Tuesday, March 19, that Russian and Belarusian athletes competing in this summer's Paris Games under a neutral flag will not be able to take part in the opening ceremony. Individual Neutral Athletes (AINs) from either country "will not participate in...
