Tag Archives: Olympic Games

Paris, France | Xinhua | A total of 3.25 million tickets have been sold for next year’s Paris Olympic Games in the first sales phase, organizers said on Thursday. For the first time in Olympic history, tickets were made available worldwide from a single platform with tickets sold in packs over three …

Paris, France | Xinhua | The Paris 2024 Olympic Games unveiled Tuesday an e-commerce platform to access the hospitality packages, which could guarantee tickets, hotels, transportation and other services to fans during the Games. “Following the launch of the International Olympic Committee’s new global hospitality model, this is the first time …

Geneva, Switzerland | Xinhua | The timetable for athletics events at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games was published by the sport’s world governing body on Monday. According to the timetable, 48 events will be spread over 11 competition days, starting with the men’s and women’s 20km race walk races on August …

Lausanne, Switzerland | Xinhua | The International Testing Agency (ITA) announced Monday the finalization of the re-analysis of samples from the Olympic Games London 2012, which resulted in 73 anti-doping rule violations. As a result of the program, 31 medals of the London 2012 were withdrawn and 46 medals in …

Tokyo, Japan | Xinhua | Tokyo prosecutors and Japan’s Fair Trade Commission on Monday raided the headquarters of major advertising firm Hakuhodo Inc. over suspected bid-rigging connected to the Tokyo Olympic Games held last year. The search of Japan’s second-largest advertising firm follows that of the country’s biggest firm Dentsu Inc. …

Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | Two-time Olympic champion and world marathon record holder, Eliud Kipchoge confirmed Wednesday he will be going for an unprecedented third title at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. “I still have something boiling in my stomach that is why I am looking forward to it,” said Kipchoge, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Weightlifter Julius Ssekitoleko is still held at Jinja road police station days after he was deported back to Uganda from Japan. 20 year-old Ssekitoleko was on Friday deported from Japan where he was driven from Entebbe and ended up in the Jinja road police …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandan rower Kathleen Noble Grace has set a National record in rowing when she finished fifth in heat 2 of the women single sculls this morning in Tokyo, Japan. Noble opened Uganda’s hunt for medals in the summer games, but fell to rowing stars from …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda is working with the Japanese government to apprehend a Ugandan weightlifter who escaped from the Olympic village facilities in Izumisano, Osaka. Okello Oryem, minister of state in charge of international affairs said this while meeting Fukuzawa Hidemoto, the Japanese ambassador to Uganda who had …

Tokyo, Japan  | XINHUA |    World Athletics President Sebastian Coe said here on Thursday that Tokyo will host a fantastic Olympic Games despite the uncertainties amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Coe arrived here on Wednesday night and became the first high-profile leader of international sports organizations to visit Japan since the …