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March 31, 2021

IOC President Tomas Bach inaugurated a new lighting system at the Panathenaic Stadium of Athens

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 […]
March 28, 2021

Albanian NOC celebrates International Women’s Day

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 […]
March 25, 2021

Olympic Torch Relay began in Japan

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 […]
March 21, 2021

Foreign spectators banned from Tokyo Olympics

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 […]
March 18, 2021

French Olympic Committee unveiled the sculpture of Alice Milliat

On 8 March, International Women’s Day, a sculpture to honour Alice Milliat, founder of the International Women’s Sport Federation and the Women’s World Games, was unveiled at the headquarters of the French NOC. […]
March 17, 2021

Algerian Olympic Committee holds training course for Masters students

As part of the implementation of the cooperation agreement signed between the Algerian Olympic and Sports Committee (COA) and the National School of Journalism and Information Sciences, a training course was organized […]
March 16, 2021

Spain is world champion in the women’s 470, Portugal and Turkiye qualified to Olympic Games

The sailing 470 World Championship  in Vilamoura, Portugal, ended with great success. In the women’s fleet of the class 470 the Spanish Silvia Mas Depares and Patricia Cantero Reina became world champions […]
March 16, 2021

The official medal of the Mediterranean Games “Οran 2022”

The Organizing Committee of the Mediterranean Games “Oran 2022” launched an artistic competition to choose the design of the Games medal. Five candidates had been selected by the vote of the public […]
March 15, 2021

The King of Spain awarded the National Sports Prize to Theresa Zabell

Theresa Zabell, former member of the Executive Committee of the International Committee of the Mediterranean Games who was honored in 2017 with the Order of Merit of the ICMG, received from the […]