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 …
BidWeek: Could Tokyo Have Bought the 2020 Olympic Games? An Analytical Look Back
BidWeek, Reporting from Toronto, Canada – Somehow the Olympic movement, and sport in general, have survived the week and we’re still trudging …
BidWeek: 100 Days To Rio; Tokyo 2020 Logo’s Chequered Past
BidWeek, Reporting from Toronto, Canada – Wednesday marked the 100-days-to-go milestone for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. The date passed with a mere blip …
Billiards Chief Sets Aim For Sport’s Inclusion at 2024 Olympic Games
Despite a bad break that left his sport off of the shortlist for inclusion at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, the Chief of the World Confederation of Billiards …
Final “Chequered” Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Logos Launched
In Tokyo Monday a final set of Emblems has been unveiled to represent the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2020. After an intensive public submission process …