The International Olympic Committee re-elected Belgian Jacques Rogge, who ran unopposed, as president until 2013. Rogge, 67, was first elected for eight years in 2001 in Moscow.
In this edition: Brazil is at fever pitch. Following the 2014 Football World Cup, the country will now also host the 2016 Olympic Games. Thousands of Cariocas are celebrating Brazil’s nomination. And the net echoes this jubilation.
Rio de Janeiro has been selected by the International Olympic Committee Friday to host the 2016 Olympic Games. Focus takes a look at the reaction in Brazil and in the other cities that were competing.
Chicago vs Rio... The North vs the South... Who will host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games? The Olympic campaign is coming to an end and the winner will be revealed this Friday in Copenhagen.
President Barack Obama will go to Copenhagen this week to support Chicago's Olympic bid for the 2016 Summer Games. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) votes on the issue on October 2.
The International Olympic Committee's executive board selected rugby sevens and golf as potential new sports for the 2016 Olympic Games. Seven sports have been shortlisted, but only two of them will be added to the 26 sports already scheduled.
Children are selected at a young age based on their physical attributes rather than their passion for a particular sport. Several of them trained here in the Shi Shahai Sports School in Beijing.
Olympic champion Michael Phelps broke the 100m butterfly world record with a time of 50.22 seconds at
the US Swimming World Championship trials on Thursday.
If Usain Bolt can get back his medal-winning Olympic form, the 22-year-old Jamaican predicts that he will run the 100 meters in 9.5 seconds. Nicknamed "Lightning" Bolt, he won the Beijing Olympic 100-metre medal with a time of 9.69 seconds.
US President Barack Obama announced the creation of new White House office of Olympic, Paralympic and Youth Sport in an apparent bid to boost his home city of Chicago's candidacy for the 2016 Olympic Games.
