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Organisers proposed to include five new sports in 2028 Olympics programme

The Organising Committee for the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles proposed adding five sports to the competition programme: flag football, cricket, lacrosse, squash, and baseball along with softball, TASS reports photo: www.reuters.com The decision to include new sports will have to be approved by the International Olympic Committee. Voting will take place at the next IOC session, which will be held in India on October 15th-17th. “The sports on offer spark imagination on the playing field and ...

10.10.2023
Olympiad

AFP: Police searching 2024 Paris Olympics headquarters

The Central Office for the Fight against Corruption and Financial and Tax Offenses, as well as the Financial Brigade of the Paris Judicial Police, raided the Organising Committee of the 2024 Olympic Games – as reported by AFP photo: www.reuters.com According to the agency’s source, the searches were carried out as part of two preliminary investigations that were launched in 2017 and 2022 on suspicion of illegal seizure of interests, bias and embezzlement of public funds. The National Financial ...

20.06.2023
Olympiad , France , police

Baraulya: we’ll fight for all kinds of admissions to Olympics

Belarus’ Deputy Sports and Tourism Minister Aleksandr Baraulya said that Belarusian athletes intend to fight for Olympic licenses across various sports and there are backgrounds for successful performances in qualifying competitions – as reported on the www.sport5.by website photo: www.reuters.com “Today, twenty of our federations have been allowed,” said the Deputy Sports and Tourism Minister. “The World Taekwondo Championship was recently held, and for the first time in the history of this ...

07.06.2023
sports , Olympiad , Baraulya , Sports and Tourism Ministry

Ivan Tikhon on prospects for Belarusian athletes’ participation in Paris Olympics

Chairman of the Belarusian Athletics Federation Ivan Tikhon told the sport5.by portal about the stage at which the issue of the return of Belarusian athletes to international competitions is “A letter has been received from the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) signed by its President Sebastian Coe, saying that the sanctions imposed on us last year continue. However, there was a remark that a working group is being created that will tell the way back to international ...

20.04.2023
Tikhon , Olympiad , athletics

Belarusian schoolchildren win international Olympiads

... , geography, the European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad, and others. Belarus declares itself ... st International Al-Ferghani Physics Olympiad in Uzbekistan in late 2021 ... . According to Ms. Kudoyarova, the Olympiad movement is among the features ...

05.01.2022
children , Olympiad , school

IOC assured Beijing Olympics to be held safely

Anti-COVID restrictions at the upcoming Winter Olympics will enable the Games to be held safely – as was announced by the press service of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), TASS informs Photo: www.reuters.com Answering the question about possible repetition during the Olympic Games of the resonant situation with the World Junior Hockey Championship, which was stopped at the height of the group stage, the International Olympic Committee noted that they – together with their Chinese ...

31.12.2021
IOC , Olympiad , coronavirus

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