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Bolt Loses Olympic Gold Over Teammate’s Failed Dope Test

Usain Bolt's golden Olympic record was diminished Wednesday after Jamaican compatriot Nesta Carter tested positive for...

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Usain Bolt Loses One Olympic Gold Medal As Nesta Carter Tests Positive

Usain Bolt will have to hand back one of his nine Olympic gold medals after Jamaican team-mate Nesta Carter tested...

International

Fifa Set To Vote On Gianni Infantino’s 48-Team Plan

Fifa will vote on Tuesday on plans to expand the World Cup to 48 teams from 2026, in line with the vision of president...

International

Tokyo Olympics Unveils $16.8 Billion Budget, To Seek More Savings

Tokyo 2020 organizers unveiled on Wednesday a budget of $16.8 billion for hosting the next Summer Games and vowed to...

Sports

Coach Asare Arrives In Sierra Leone To Conduct A Boxing Course

Popular Ghanaian boxing instructor, Ofori Asare is in Sierra Leone to oversee the AIBA (world amateur boxing governing...

International

Final Stage the Toughest For Paris

Paris is the hot favorite to win the right to host the 2024 Olympics Games but, having fallen at the final hurdle...

International

Russia Corrupted Olympics On Unprecedented Scale

The Russian state conspired with athletes and sporting officials to undertake a doping program that was unprecedented...

International

Sanctions Extended By the International Olympic Committee

Doping sanctions against Russia have been extended until further notice by the International Olympic Committee....

International

Infantino Ignores My Calls

Ex-Fifa president Sepp Blatter has accused successor Gianni Infantino of disrespecting him and says the new head of...

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Reedie Draws Flak At Doha Meet

The World Anti-Doping Agency and its head Craig Reedie faced stinging criticism from national Olympic committees...

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Women In Sports Urged To Aspire For Leadership Role

With the persistence of imbalances within leadership positions in sports; giving greater visibility to women in sports,...

International

IOC Called To Help Compensate Child Victims of Violence

The International Olympic Committee should be helping to compensate child victims of police violence at Rio 2016, say...

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Fifa President Wants 48-Team World Cup

Fifa president Gianni Infantino has proposed expanding the World Cup finals to 48 teams – after initially suggesting...

International

Rome Olympic Chief’s Fury At Mayor’s Bid Veto

The Italian Olympic chief has reacted angrily to the Rome mayor's decision to reject the city's bid to host the 2024...

Opinion

Ao, Kwadwo Adu Asare

Society is an extension of the individual. The most we can hope to do with a problematic psyche is to re-form it. No...

Sports

Nunoo Mensah Dares GOC

The president of the Ghana Weightlifting Federation (GWF), Ben Nunoo Mensah, has thrown a challenge to the leadership...

International

Brazil Police Seek To Question IOC Head

Brazilian police say they want to speak to International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach about an alleged...

Sports

GOC Must Kick-Start Electoral Process — Sports Federations

Heads of sports federations in the country have called on the leadership of the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC), led by...

Sports

GOC Top Men Hot

Pressure is gradually mounting on the current executives of the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC), led by Prof. Francis...