Toyota ends sponsorship with ‘political’ Olympics
Japanese auto giant Toyota is to end their top-tier Olympics sponsorship, its chairman has said, citing the sporting showpiece's "increasingly political" influence that puts athletes on the back burner.
Israel’s Olympic delegation departs for Paris
French organisers have stepped up security in Paris where the Israeli delegation will be subject to strict security protocols
Athletes raising rights abuses must be protected, UN says ahead of Olympics
He was speaking at the UN Human Rights Council alongside International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach.
IOC invite 39 Russian, Belarus athletes to compete as neutrals at Olympics
To be invited to the Games as a “neutral individual athlete”, competitors first have to satisfy their individual federation’s qualifying criteria.
Macron ‘counting on Real Madrid’ to let Mbappe play at Olympics
French President Emmanuel Macron said Saturday he hoped star footballer Kylian Mbappe would be freed up by his likely future club Real Madrid to take part in the Paris Olympics for France.
French MPs ‘ban’ English at Paris Olympics
Having long battled the creeping use of English in advertising, music and film, French MPs have declared a new struggle: keeping their home Olympics this year free from anglicisms.
