THE International Olympic Committee could axe boxing from the Tokyo Olympics over match-fixing concerns. Its board also froze contacts with, and financial payments to, the International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA). The crisis-hit organisation’s interim president has been named as a leading criminal by the US Treasury Department. ICO bigwigs claimed they were not “not satisfied” with […]
POLE DANCING has been officially recognised as a proper sport – and now wants to make it into the OLYMPICS. The fitness activity, which has traditionally been associated with strip clubs, could now be set to be unveiled on the biggest stage in international sport. Campaigner Katie Coates, 41, finally won her 11-year fight after […]
MCDONALDS have decided to end their lucrative sponsorship deal with the Olympics three years early – heaping more pressure on the IOC. The fast food giant are only five years into an eight-year contract worth £156million which had been due to run through until the end of Tokyo 2020. But they have ditched their partnership, […]
A TEAM GB women’s football team for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics has moved a step closer after the four home nations held further talks this week. Representatives from the English, Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish Football Associations discussed the matter this week while attending the Uefa Congress in Helsinki, Finland. Both men’s and women’s sides […]
RUSSIAN athletes could still be banned for the 2017 London World Championships. The sporting superpower was warned last night that they are not yet trusted to clean up their act before next summer’s showpiece event. Russia was kicked out of global athletics 13 months ago – with the track and field team missing the Rio […]