LAUSANNE – The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is to re-test doping samples given at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin before the next edition in Sochi, Russia, subjecting them to the latest methods of detection. The international body has kept every sample given by top athletes since the 2004 Summer Games in Athens in a [...]
Wrestling has two opportunities left at a return to the Olympic program. U.S. wrestling officials appeared to have settled on which one they think is the best bet.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Tuesday opted to remove wrestling from the program of sports at the 2020 Games, a spokesman said.
LONDON—Exactly eight months before the vote, the race for the 2020 Summer Games moved into a crucial phase Monday when the three candidate cities submitted their bid plans to the International Olympic Committee. Leaders from Istanbul, Madrid and Tokyo handed over their documents at IOC headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, setting the stage for the [...]
The IOC is threatening to suspend the national Olympic committees of India and Kuwait because of government interference.
There he was, in what could be his last official act as the Philippine representative to the International Olympic Committee.
The IOC has told South Korean officials to bar a football player from collecting his bronze medal after he displayed a flag with a political message at the third-place match against Japan.
International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge has praised London as a “diverse, vibrant, cosmopolitan” city and thanked it for hosting the games for a record third time.
Go Teng Kok may have been expelled from the Philippine Olympic Committee but the embattled Philippine Amateur Track and Field Association (Patafa) president remains in good graces with the international athletics federation.
I had wanted to call former POC president Cito Dayrit, who wrote a book on Olympism and is considered an authority on the subject, and ask him to define the role of International Olympic Committee representative Frank Elizalde with regard to the Philippine Olympic Committee. Considering the countless problems plaguing the various National Sports Associations, [...]
Philippine Amateur Track and Field Association president Go Teng Kok Saturday said his expulsion from the Philippine Olympic Committee and the leadership issues hounding other sports could be part of the run-up for next year’s POC elections.
Philippine Sports Commission chair Richie Garcia’s utterly uncalled for remark on the ABS-CBN television show “Hardball” capped a day of infamy in Philippine sports.
The House of Representatives is brokering “unity talks” between the Philippine Dragon Boat Federation and the Philippine Canoe/Kayak Federation in a meeting also attended by top officials of the Philippine Olympic Committee and the Philippine Sports Commission.
