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ArticleIOC applauds UN declaration affirming role of sport in gender equality
A UN declaration highlights sport’s transformative role in promoting gender equality and empowering women and girls globally, which the IOC officially welcomes.
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IOC reveals details of Olympic forest project in Africa
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, covering a combined area ...
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Tokyo 2020 postponed to 2021
(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 “to a date beyond 2020 but not ...
