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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced on Thursday the production of three sports documentary series for the 2024 Paris Olympics in collaboration with Netflix. The series will be premiering on Netflix throughout the rest of this year and into early 2025. In "RISING," the series will follow US gymnast Simone Biles as she hopes to to return to the world’s biggest sporting stage at Paris 2024. "Sprint" will document the lives of "the fastest people on the planet," including Sha'Carri Richardson, Noah Lyles and Shericka Jackson, while "Olympic Men’s Basketball" will show the battle to...
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New body World Boxing hopes the sport will be represented at the 2028 Olympic Games after all following a meeting with the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Last year, the IOC withdrew its recognition of the IBA amateur boxing federation due to governance, finance and ethical issues and an IBA appeal was recently rejected by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). Qualification for July and August's Paris Games is in the hands of a task force appointed by the IOC, as was the case at the last Olympics in Tokyo. Boxing is not currently on the programme for Los Angeles 2028 but World Boxin...
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Boxing will only be included in the programme for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles if the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has found an international federation partner by early next year. The IOC said in a statement on Wednesday that "for governance reasons" it was not able to organize a third Olympic boxing tournament, following 2021 in Tokyo and this summer's Paris Games. The IOC stepped in to keep boxing in the Games after it first suspended and last year de-recognized the International Boxing Association (IBA) in connection with long standing IBA governance and financing concerns. We...
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The International Boxing Federation (IBA) has hit out at the world's highest sports court CAS and Olympic leaders after its appeal against a ban from the Olympic family was turned down. In a statement on Wednesday, the IBA said it would decide on another appeal at the Swiss Federal Tribunal after its legal team has studied the full verdict from the Court of Arbitration for Sport. It accused the CAS of bias and said it was "far from independent" of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and that it had used "oversimplified language" in its statement from the previous day to uphold the ban. ...
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The International Boxing Federation (IBA) remains banned from the Olympic family as the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said on Tuesday it has turned down an IBA appeal against last year's decision. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) withdrew its recognition of IBA as its international federation for the sport in June 2023 in connection with long standing governance and financing concerns. The IBA appealed, and a CAS hearing took place in November. The CAS said it upheld the IOC decision because IBA “had not complied with the conditions set down by the IOC for recognition.” It said...
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The International Olympic Committee has fallen victim to a suspected fake call from Russia. According to the IOC, it was taken in by a group of trolls that had previously deceived a number of top international politicians and other celebrities. During the call, one person claimed to be the president of the African Union. "There appears to have been a new incident in the Russian disinformation and defamation campaign against the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and its President," an IOC statement said, adding that a Russian disinformation campaign had alreay been revealed at the Switzerla...
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has voiced sharp criticism on some Russian reactions to its decision that Russian and Belarusian athletes will not be allowed to take part in the parade of nations at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics. IOC spokesman Mark Adams told reporters on Wednesday that one comment from Russia had linked IOC president Thomas Bach with his German nationality and the Holocaust, giving no further details but naming it "completely unacceptable and a new low." Adams was speaking on behalf of Bach who only said: "Unfortunately this is only one quote and more q...
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International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach has said he has no problems to wait until after the Paris Olympics with an announcement whether he wants to run again in 2025 for the top job or not. The decision follows a recommendation by the IOC ethics commission which raised concern that an announcement before Paris could overshadow the July 26-August 11 Games and the election process. The decision was unanimously approved by the IOC executive board, with Bach saying on Wednesday "there wasn't even a discussion. "It goes without saying that I always respect recommendations from t...
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The Kremlin on Wednesday criticised the exclusion of Russian and Belarusian athletes from the parade of nations at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics and from its medal table. Commenting on an according decision from the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Russian state media quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying that "we definitely treat it negatively. It is detrimental to the ideas of Olympism and infringes upon the interests of athletes, Olympians. It undoubtedly contradictsthe basic ideology of the Olympic Movement and is absolutely detrimental to the IOC reputation."...
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German Olympic athletes can share short smartphone videos from Olympic venues and the opening and closing ceremonies on social media from the upcoming Paris Games onwards in a further relaxation of rules, Germany's cartel office said on Wednesday. The cartel office had deemed strict advertising rights and other restrictions imposed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) unlawful in a 2019 ruling. It now said that the IOC and DOSB have updated these guidelines which include allowing athletes to stay in touch with their fans via social media i...
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