PYLOS, Greece, March 21 — Kirsty Coventry smashed through the International Olympic Committee’s glass ceiling yesterday to become the organisation’s first female and first African president in its 130-year history.

PARIS, Aug 7 — Hundreds of flag-waving Algerian supporters turned the normally genteel surroundings of Phillippe-Chatrier Court at Roland Garros into a cauldron of noise as boxer Imane Khelif sealed her place in the Olympic women’s welterweight final.

MUMBAI, Oct 15 — The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is exploring plans for the creation of the Olympic Esports Games, IOC president Thomas Bach said here on Saturday.

HANGZHOU, Sept 27 — After finishing second in the Asian Games, the Malaysian Arena of Valor (AoV) team is hoping e-sports will make its Olympics debut soon.

ISTANBUL, Nov 5 — An estimated 50 per cent of the world’s population that live in coastal areas will be exposed to flooding, storms and tsunamis by 2030, the UN said Thursday.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 22 — The number of spectators for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, scheduled to begin on July 23, will be capped at 50 per cent of venue capacity, up to a maximum of 10,000 people per venue, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 8 — The Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM) will write to the International Olympic Council (IOC) and Japan to seek clarification on a report that athletes from 10 countries, including Malaysia, will be barred from the Tokyo Olympics.

PARIS, March 13 — The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session on Friday unanimously approved Olympic Agenda 2020+5, a set of reforms, as the new strategic roadmap of the IOC and the Olympic movement through 2025.

TOKYO, Nov 17 — Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Monday agreed with International Olympic Committee (IOC) chief Thomas Bach that the Tokyo Olympics will be held as planned next summer, possibly with spectators, despite the ongoing global coronavirus pandemic, reported Kyodo News.

TOKYO, June 11 — Organisers of the postponed Tokyo Olympic Games 2020 said Wednesday they have agreed with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to hold a "simplified" games next summer to ensure safety from the coronavirus and reduce the financial impact of the one-year delay.

MOSCOW, April 13 — The postponement of the Tokyo Olympics to 2021 due to the global coronavirus pandemic will cost the International Olympic Committee (IOC) hundreds of millions of dollars, reported Sputnik news agency – based on IOC President Thomas Bach’s quotes in an interview with the German Welt Am Sonntag newspaper published on Sunday.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 31 — The Tokyo Olympics will now be held from July 23 to August 8 next year, exactly a year from the original dates planned earlier (July 24, 2020).

TOKYO/ATHENS, March 24 — The Tokyo Olympics were postponed on Tuesday into 2021, the first such delay in the Games' 124-year modern history, as the coronavirus crisis wrecked the last international sporting showpiece still standing this year.

ATHENS, March 23 — The International Olympic Committee is stepping up its "scenario planning" for the Tokyo 2020 Games — including a possible postponement — as the coronavirus pandemic spreads, it said after an emergency meeting on Sunday.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 4 — The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board (EB) yesterday expressed its full commitment to staging the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games successfully, as scheduled from July 24 to August 9 in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak.