Olympic officials meeting Wednesday (Thursday) in Switzerland took a calm, longer view of the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles, California, after days of images of deployed military and burning cars ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, June 11 (Xinhua) -- Four Council members were elected Wednesday by the 49th General Assembly of the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF), during a ...

Olympic officials, at the annual meeting of the Summer Games sports bodies group Wednesday, said they had "full support" for ...

Danny Boyle has revealed his one big regret about the London 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony he directed - admitting he ...

Since 2015 he has been president of World Athletics. Image: New IOC president Kirsty Coventry beat Sebastian Coe in the race for one of the most powerful roles in global sport More recently ...

The IOC held a men-only membership until 1981 ... she embraced her beaten rivals. Among them was Sebastian Coe, who finished in a distant third place. Coe felt this role was his destiny, the ...

There is no way of sugaring the pill: eight first-round votes for Sebastian Coe, out of a possible 97, is a humiliating result for a serial winner. And a sure sign that the cosy IOC coterie have ...

Sebastian Coe received just eight votes from IOC members in the presidential election. Alex Pantling/Getty Images The biggest name in the field and one of the favourites, Sebastian Coe headed into ...

British Olympic hero Sebastian Coe was trounced in his bid to become president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Just one round of voting was required for Kirsty Coventry to become the ...

Coventry will asumme the presidency in June (AP) This was Seb Coe’s only chance to claim the IOC presidency. He was already too old to run in this race, technically, although rules would have ...