Tokyo Games

— 19 August 2022

At Tokyo 2020, a discount on costumes

The affair turns into a soap opera. With an episode per day, a lot of revelations, but an epilogue still uncertain. Thursday, August 18, the day after the arrest... Read more »

— 2 August 2022

In Tokyo, an Olympic legacy with the smell of corruption

Curious anniversary. At the time when Japan should analyze and measure the legacy of the Tokyo 2020 Games (July 23 to August 8, 2021), one year after the event,... Read more »

— 4 October 2021

After the Games, Tokyo wants the World Athletics Championships

The Japanese are incredible. The Tokyo Games will leave the peninsula with a historic bill to be wiped out by taxpayers, but the country continues to dream of the... Read more »

— 29 September 2021

The cost of the Tokyo Games will be unveiled next year

The Tokyo Games belong to the past, but their final cost is still unknown. And so it will be for at least a few more months. Just over three... Read more »

— 23 September 2021

Vaccination no longer an option for US athletes

The US Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) has decided that its delegation to the 2022 Beijing Winter Games will be vaccinated against COVID-19. All of it. Those who do... Read more »

— 10 September 2021

“At the Stade de France, we will bring our ideas and a build a new track”

No time to lose for Alain Blondel. The former athlete, European decathlon champion in 1994, joined the Paris 2024 OCOG last spring as sport manager for athletics. At the... Read more »

— 9 September 2021

North Korea is kicked out of class for shunning the Tokyo Games

Times are changing in the Olympic movement. But the pendulum is swinging back. In February 2018, a unified team of the two Koreas marched in good order behind a... Read more »

— 2 September 2021

Tennis opens the debate on vaccination, the NBA closes it

Will top athletes have to be vaccinated to continue their professional careers? For the Tokyo Games, the IOC and the Japanese organisers said no. The coronavirus vaccine was “recommended”,... Read more »

— 11 August 2021

A double dose of quarantine for Australian Olympians

The return from the Tokyo Games is taking very different forms from one country to another. In France, some of the Olympic medallists, including judoka Teddy Riner and Clarisse... Read more »

— 11 August 2021

Tokyo 2020, the tipping point for the Games

The Tokyo Games are over for the athletes, but they are just beginning for the analysts. Two days only after the closing ceremony, the Olympic event’s audience figures have... Read more »