India gears up for Indian Ocean-wide mock tsunami drill

India, along with 23 other countries, is participating in a major Indian Ocean-wide mock tsunami drill on September 9 and 10 that is aimed at testing the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation......

Paris 2024 Olympics Opening Ceremony Plans Unveiled

IMAGE: IOC Coordination Commission chairman Pierre-Olivier Beckers-Vieujant said he was confident Paris 2024 would be in position to deliver excellent Games. Photograph: Gonzalo......

IOC working toward July-August Olympics in 2021

'We want to more or less finalise the dates in four weeks' time.' IMAGE: John Coates, the IOC's Coordination Commission chief for Tokyo, said the Games would have to be held between the tennis......

IOC firm on decision to move Tokyo Games marathon

Temperatures in Sapporo, which will also host some soccer games, are as much as five to six degrees centigrade cooler than Tokyo during the day. IMAGE: Athletes go through the motions in the men's......

IOC 'fully committed' to staging Olympics in 2021

  IMAGE: Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) attends a meeting of IOC's executive board, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in......

IOC still ironing out medical needs at Tokyo Games

'The IOC is actively working with its Japanese partners in the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee and with the National Olympic Committees on the details of this policy (of flying in additional......