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    IOC reveals details of Olympic forest project in Africa

    2021-06-24T05:46:00Z

    The International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) has announced the details of its project to plant an Olympic Forest in Mali and Senegal, part of the IOC’s climate-positive strategy. The project will involve planting about 355,000 native trees across around 90 villages in the two neighboring African states, ...

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    Tokyo 2020 postponed to 2021

    2020-03-25T15:36:00Z

    (SGI+) The Olympic Games will not be held in Tokyo this summer. A joint statement made by the president of the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ), Thomas Bach , and the Prime Minister of Japan, Abe Shinzo , said that they will have to be rescheduled ...