Tokyo Governor Naoki Inose, who also heads the city’s 2020 Olympic Bid Committee apologized for “inappropriate” comments made about the other two potential host cities - Madrid and Istanbul - and about disputes between Islamic countries.
After being chosen as a potential host for the 2024 Olympics, Boston’s committee on Tourism, Arts, and Cultural Development is set to meet in Beacon Hill May 7 to discuss forming a commission that will examine the logistics of hosting the Games.
After coaching the legendary Michael Phelps to 22 medals during the last three Olympics, coach Bob Bowman is set for a new challenge: creating a competitive national swim team for a country that has 22 fewer medals in the sport than Phelps.
USOC Chief Executive Scott Blackmun told the Associated Press that the committee is considering ten cities for America’s 2024 Olympic bid, including a joint bid between San Diego and Tijuana.
British discus thrower and London Olympian Lawrence Okoye announced on Twitter that he’ll sign with the San Francisco 49ers after no team picked him during this weekend’s NFL Draft.
Double Olympic champ Mo Farah returned Tuesday to the stadium where he won his 5000m and 10000m golds in front of his home crowd during last summer’s London Games.
American tennis legend Andre Agassi, one of only two men to win all four majors and a singles Olympic gold medal, is backing squash’s bid to earn the lone open spot in the 2020 Olympics.
Former Soviet and New Jersey Devils defenseman Alexei Kasatonov will head the Russian hockey team as its general manager in an attempt to score the country its first gold since it began competing as an independent nation.
After more than seven months of delays on the Rio Olympic golf course construction, the sport’s international governing body, the R&A Golf Club, announced Wednesday that they’ve received the green light to finally break ground.
After making the mistake of upsetting not one, but two nations while trying to decide whether to play for Ireland or Great Britain at the Rio Olympics, Rory McIlroy is getting some assistance from the Royal and Ancient Golf Club Wednesday.
Fierce Fivers Jordyn Wieber and McKayla Maroney recently appeared in the latest Thirty Seconds to Mars video, Up in the Air, which already has more than two million views in its first week on YouTube.
We’re all getting a little closer to the dream of seeing 3-on-3 basketball in the Olympics - possibly as soon as Rio in 2016 - so the sport’s governing body, FIBA, announced Tuesday that they’ve picked Moscow to host the 2014 world championships.
Joining the already enthusiastic citizens of Los Angeles, Dallas, San Francisco, Seattle, and possibly Tulsa and Boston, the city of Philadelphia is considering a bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
The Australian Sports Commission is cutting 5.8 percent out of the national swimming program’s 2013-14 after their worst Olympic showing in two decades and a scandal involving banned sleeping pills and other “toxic incidents.”
Olympic bid officials from Tokyo, Istanbul, and Madrid were all in Fiji over the weekend to make their official 2020 pitches to the general assembly of the Oceania National Olympic Committee.
London Olympic gymnastics champ Arthur Zanetti of Brazil is threatening to switch nationalities ahead of his upcoming hometown Games in Rio unless the nation’s Olympic Committee is willing to invest in his sport going forward.
London gold medalist Mo Farah of Great Britain, who’s set to make his marathon debut in London Sunday, said he’s comfortable with the security measures in the wake of the Boston bombings.
This year’s London Diamond League meet, taking place at Olympic Stadium and featuring world record sprinter Usain Bolt and British gold medalists Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis, sold out 75 minutes after going on sale Friday morning, organizers said.
