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Delhi will bid for 2048 Olympic Games, says CM Arvind Kejriwal

The Delhi government aims to host the 2048 Olympic Games and it will create whatever infrastructure and facilities required for it, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Tuesday

Delhi will bid for 2048 Olympic Games, says Manish Sisodia

The city will build adequate infrastructure and create an atmosphere where sports flourishes, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said on Tuesday

Tokyo Olympic Games sponsors pay $3.3 billion, but more still needed

A University of Oxford study says they are the most costly Summer Olympics on record

IOC bans Belarusian President Lukashenko from attending Olympic games

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided to temporally ban Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, also head of Belarus' National Olympic Committee (NOC), from the Olympic Games

Tokyo Olympic Games won't confirm added costs reported at $3 billion

A University of Oxford study published early this year calculated before the postponement said Tokyo was the most expensive Summer Olympics on record and the meter is still running.

Olympic leaders raise hopes for safe Tokyo Games with fans in the venues

Encouraged by progress this week in finding a Covid-19 vaccine and staging sports events in Japan, the IOC is getting more confident that next year's Tokyo Olympics can have fans in the venues

Nobody wants to see Oly held behind closed doors: Tokyo 2020 spokesman

Tokyo 2020 spokesman Masa Takaya did not rule out the possibility of hosting the postponed Olympic Games behind closed doors while insisting that nobody wants to see the games without spectators.

Sports Ministry to turn 8 facilities into Khelo India Centre of Excellence

In the first leg, the ministry has identified state-owned sports facilities in Karnataka, Odisha, Kerala, Telengana, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram and Nagaland

IOC says no 'ideal' solution for Olympics as athletes voice Covid19 worries

'The IOC is committed to finding a solution with the least negative impact for the athletes,' a spokesperson said

Ace sprinter Dutee Chand hopes to qualify for Tokyo Olympics next month

The first edition of the competition will be held in Bhubaneswar from February 22 to March 1

Kneeling, raised fist, hand gestures banned in Tokyo Olympics protest rules

The new guidelines come after two American athletes were reprimanded by the US Olympic Committee for medal podium protests

Original Olympic Games manifesto sells for record $8.8 mn at auction

The 14-page manuscript was written in 1892 by Pierre de Coubertin, a French aristocrat and athletics enthusiast known as the "father" of the modern Olympics

Time for Olympics in India

The Olympic games hosted by Mumbai and Pune, driven by private enterprise, should be modelled on the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, curated by Peter Ueberroth, and the first Olympics to generate a surplus

Must not host Olympics unless we can win 40 gold medals: Abhinav Bindra

India need to inculcate sports as a culture before salvaging any hopes of winning medals at the Olympics: Bindra

Rio Olympics open with 'Samba', global warming taking centerstage

Brazil organisers put their passion for football aside and made climate change and depletion of natural resources as the central theme in a thought-provoking nearly four-hour long ceremony