Reedie tells Around the Rings that the flame lighting is one of three occasions when the IOC is closely entwined with the Olympic host city. The first is when the IOC elects the city, he says.

CLEPSON dos Santos is determined to keep his Olympic dream alive after stealing the show at De L'Amistat-Boxa tournament last weekend. The 19-year-old, part of a five-strong County Antrim side ...

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Tokyo doused its Olympic flame in a ceremony on Sunday that echoed the restraint of a Games that played out without spectators and were defined and transformed by the global pandemic, dazzling ...

If that sounds like a trick question, it is. Olympic gold medals are not made out of solid gold - with hundreds of gold medals awarded at each Summer Olympic Games, and just shy of 100 at each ...

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Olympic rowing champion James Cracknell has been chosen as the Tory candidate for Colchester in the next general election. The Conservatives have a majority of 9,000 over Labour and local party ...

HANGZHOU, China - Russia's Olympic chief has criticised Asian Games organisers for rowing back on a decision to allow athletes from Russia and Belarus to compete at the multi-sport event in ...

The gold-medal winner will run in Colchester after current Conservative incumbent is to stand down The Olympic gold-winning rower James Cracknell will stand as a Conservative candidate at the next ...