Olympics News

Olympics/bobsleigh: 'Lasting' legacy for tragic track, officials say

The track that has hosted the Olympic sliding events will have a lasting legacy of high-level competition, officials said Saturday, while insisting the memory of the Georgian luger who died would endure.

Olympics/Figure skating: Golden Kim to consider future

South Korea's newly-crowned Olympic figure skating champion Kim Yu-Na said Friday that she will make a decision on her future in the sport at the end of the season.

Olympics/Luge: Tragic Georgia considering Games future

Georgia was considering on Friday whether to pull out of the 2010 Winter Olympics after the tragic death of luger Nodar Kumaritashvili, International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge said.

Rogge welcomes decision on Olympic teams

International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge on Thursday welcomed a decision by FIFA to maintain the rules for Olympic teams and allow over age players, despite qualms at European clubs.

Olympics: Villa Park out of Olympics football

Aston Villa's stadium in Birmingham has been withdrawn as a venue for the 2012 Olympic football tournament, the London games organising committee (LOCOG) announced on Monday.

Olympics: Great Britain set for All-English football team in 2012

Great Britain is set to be represented by the England football team at the 2012 Olympics after the other British nations agreed not to block the proposal.

Sport: Romanians exclude Hagi from Olympic Committee

Retired Romanian football great Gheorghe Hagi has been excluded from his country's Olympic Committee (COSR) for failing to turn up at meetings, according to COSR president Octavian Morariu Wednesday.

RugbyU: No Olympic doping fears for Sevens - official

A top rugby official said Sevens complies "whole-heartedly" with new doping regulations and admitted an anti-drugs row involving football could boost its prospects of becoming an Olympic sport.

FIFA vice-chief 'shocked' at Blatter's Olympic age limit plan

FIFA vice-president Chung Mong-Joon said Thursday he was "shocked and disappointed" at Sepp Blatter's proposal to enforce an age limit on Olympic football players.

Swimming: Adlington tells football to fall into line over doping

Rebecca Adlington, Britain's Olympic swimming champion, has called on footballers to follow the same drugs test procedures as other leading athletes.

Scots politicians told to stay out of Olympic football

Members of the Scottish Parliament have been told to stay out of the row over whether there should be a British football team at the 2012 London Olympics.

Japan ready to bid for both World Cup, Olympics

Japan's football chief has vowed to bid for the World Cup finals in 2018 or 2022, despite Tokyo's candidacy to host the 2016 Summer Olympics, press reports said Monday.

Olympics: FIFA green lights British team for London 2012

FIFA gave the green light Saturday for a British football team at the 2012 London Olympics, saying it would not have any effect on the individual status of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Olympics: Capello wants to coach British Olympic team

England coach Fabio Capello has said it is his "dream" to coach a Great Britain football team at the 2012 Olympics in London.

Scots still wary of British Olympic team

The Scottish Football Association on Wednesday reiterated its opposition to the creation of a British team to compete in the 2012 Olympics in London, despite fresh assurances from FIFA that such a move would not jeopordise Scotland's footballing independence.

Olympics: IAAF chief's blast over London athletics venue

The top official in world athletics has slammed the International Olympic Committee for agreeing that London's Olympic Stadium can be converted into a football ground after the 2012 Games.