Olympics

Tokyo organizers are trying to cut spending, under pressure from the IOC, which has been widely criticized for pushing host cities to build "white elephant" venues.

Getting hip to breakdancing's appeal organizers of the 2024 Paris Olympics want the dance sport that spread from New York in the 1970s to become a medal event at the games.

The price of the opening and closing ceremony for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics has risen about 40 percent. Muto said the privately funded operating budget of 600 billion yen.

With Calgary bowing out of the hosting race. The front-runner Milan-Cortina d'Ampezzo bid has received another boost with a funding promise from the Italian government.

The City Council of Calgary put it to vote of the people if they wanted to host the 2026 Winter Olympics. And it received unofficially over 50 % no votes.

2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympics to be possibly held in Calgary survived a city council vote, A motion leading to the cancellation of an plebiscite failed to pass.

He was kick off the American team that ended a streak of seven World Cup appearances. Now, Michael Bradley hopes to have a role in qualifying for the World Cup.

For now, Calgary, Canada; Stockholm, Sweden; and the combined Italian bid of Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo are in the running to host the 2026 Winter Olympics.

The 2020 Tokyo Olympics is just two years away and the only bigger than the games coming to Japan is the cost of the project that has sky-rocketed four fold.

The Japanese city of Sapporo has dropped its bid to host the 2026 Winter Olympics following a recent earthquake. But now focusing its efforts will be on 2030.