Cherry Blossom Tokyo 2020 Olympic Torch Unveiled, Will “Light Our Way To The Future”
Organizers in Japan Wednesday unveiled a cherry blossom themed torch that will carry the Olympic flame from Athens to Tokyo in a relay set to start in exactly …
French Prosecutors Investigating Japanese Olympic Committee President On Tokyo 2020 Bid Corruption Charges
French prosecutors are investigating Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) President Tsunekazu Takeda on “active corruption” charges relating to …
Tokyo 2020 Reveals Teleporting and Telekinetic Olympic and Paralympic Games Mascots
Tokyo 2020 revealed two teleporting and telekinetic, cartoonish and futurisitic-looking creatures that will serve as the Olympic and Paralympic Games …
IOC Urges Tokyo 2020 Not To ‘Scare Off’ Future Olympic Hosts And To Further Cut Costs
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) noted positive progress towards reducing the organizing costs for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, but at …
2016 Top 10: #9 Tokyo 2020’s Missed Promises Cast Shadow on Future Bids
GamesBids.com presents the ninth annual Top Ten list of Olympic Bid Stories for 2016. These stories impacted the course of Olympic host city bids, or the …
JOC Report Says $2 Million Tokyo 2020 Olympic Bid Payments Not A Bribe
A report released by the Japanese Olympic Committee Thursday concluded that payments made by the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Bid Committee (JOC) to Singapore-based …
IOC Approves Addition of Five New Sports To Tokyo 2020 Program
Reporting from Rio de Janiero – Japan’s beloved sport of baseball is set to return to the Olympics when Tokyo hosts the Games in 2020. The …
BidWeek: Converging Milestones Mark Hits and Misses For Olympic Agenda 2020
BidWeek, Reporting from Toronto, Canada – When International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach was elected based on his proposed Olympic …
BidWeek: Olympic Bids Offer a Glimpse of Alternate Realities – Tonight Chicago, Next Week Tokyo
BidWeek, Reporting From Toronto, Canada – This evening, Friday July 22, imagine that you’re in Chicago’s Washington Park at a stadium with 80,000 …
IOC Executive Board Approves Package of Five New Sports For Tokyo 2020
If the International Olympic Committee (IOC) membership gives its rubber stamp approval at the next session in Rio, Japan’s wildly popular sport of …