Ismet Krasniqi was elected as the new President of the Kosovo Olympic Committee during its 8th Electoral General Assembly held at Pristina. Krasniqi received 53 votes, pipping his two opponents, Besim Hasani, […]

The year 2021 marks the 70th anniversary of the first Mediterranean Games, held way back in 1951 in Alexandria, Egypt. The International Committee of the Mediterranean Games has decided to celebrate the […]

The Olympic Committee of Bosnia and Herzegovina launched a project named “Athletes Becoming Social Entrepreneurs! Developing a Gamification-Based Social Entrepreneurship Training Program for Athletes – SENTA.” Co-financed by the European Union, the […]

Federica Pellegrini has validated her ticket for the Olympic Games in Tokyo (July 23 – August 8), at 200 m. and it will be her fifth Olympics since Athens in 2004. The […]

Distria Krasniqi and Dardan Berisha were awarded the main prizes in the fifth edition of the 2020 Laureates ceremony, organized by the Kosovo Olympic Committee. Judoka Krasniqi won the award “Female Athlete […]

Following his re-election, IOC President Bach’s first official visit was to the country where the 137th IOC Session had been scheduled to take place before the COVID-19 pandemic. At the headquarters of […]

To celebrate International Women’s Day on 8 March, the Albanian NOC organised a webinar entitled “Women in Sports, yesterday and today”, which was broadcast live on the NOC’s media channels. The webinar brought together […]

The Olympic Torch Relay began in the J-Village national football training facility in Naraha, Fukushima. The first torchbearers were the Nadeshiko Japan women’s football team, who won the 2011 FIFA Women’s World […]

There will be no overseas spectators at the Tokyo Olympics this summer, due to significant health risks, Olympic officials and Japanese authorities said after an online meeting on Saturday. The Olympic Games […]