24 March 2020 – The South African Football Association (SAFA) welcomes the decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to postpone the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympic Games in the face of coronavirus pandemic. “This is the time for decisive action and...
24 March 2020 – The Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games have been postponed until next year because of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic. The event, due to begin on 24 July, will now take place “no later than summer 2021”. “I proposed to...
23 March 2020 – The 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo have been thrown into further doubt after Canada became the first major country to withdraw. Japan’s Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, has admitted for the first time that the games could be...
Dear Fellow Athletes, In this unprecedented crisis we are all united. Like you, we are very much concerned about what the COVID-19 pandemic is doing to people’s lives. Human lives take precedence over everything, including the staging of the Games. The IOC wants to be...
20 March 2020 – THE OLYMPIC FLAME FOR TOKYO 2020 TOUCHED DOWN IN JAPAN EARLY ON FRIDAY TO START ITS 121-DAY OLYMPIC TORCH RELAY JOURNEY AROUND THE COUNTRY, BRINGING A MESSAGE OF PEACE AND HOPE TO THE WORLD. The flame was transported by a special aircraft “Tokyo...
20 March 2020 – THE SCALED-DOWN CEREMONY IN ATHENS FEATURED GOLD MEDALLISTS, EMOTIONAL ADDRESSES AND A MESSAGE OF HOPE AND UNITY, WITH THE FLAME NOW SET TO TRAVEL TO JAPAN. THE OLYMPIC FLAG WAS RAISED, AND THE NATIONAL ANTHEMS OF JAPAN AND GREECE SOUNDED, AS THE...