IOC presidential candidate Thomas Bach says the Olympics risks losing young fans and viewers unless it sets up its own television channel to broadcast sports events during the years between the games. Full story
SYDNEY/LONDON (Reuters) - Mining group Rio Tinto Plc <RIO.L> has drawn up a shortlist of half a dozen suitors for its majority stake in Canada's largest iron ore producer, sources with knowledge of the situation said on Monday. Full story
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - America's newest warplane, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, will reach operational milestones in 2015 for the Marine Corps, 2016 for the Air Force and 2019 for the Navy, according to details formally provided to the U.S. Congress on Friday. Full story
TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo's outspoken governor, Naoki Inose, who heads the city's bid for the 2020 Olympics, apologized on Tuesday for "inappropriate" comments he made about rival candidate Istanbul and Islamic countries. Full story
Three time Olympic Coach Dan Gable discusses the Olympics’ decision to drop wrestling from its program.
Justice came swiftly to Greek Olympian Voula Papachristou, who was expelled from the competition after she posted a controversial quip on Twitter from her iPhone. "With so many Africans in Greece .. At least the mosquitoes of West Nile .. will eat homemade food!" (Translated from Greek to English Full story
Denis Oswald, head of the International Olympic Committee co-ordination commission for the 2012 Games, attends an IOC press briefing in London April 5, 2011 file photo. REUTERS/Eddie Keogh
FILE - The Aug. 6, 2012 file photo shows Sayed Abdelmonem Hamed of Egypt competing against Zaur Kuramagomedov of Russia during the 60-kg Greco-Roman wrestling competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. IOC leaders have dropped wrestling for the 2020 Games in a surprise decision to scrap on
The bus carrying members of the IOC passes in front of the Las Ventas bullring in Madrid March 18, 2013. REUTERS/Javier Barbancho
International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge shakes hands with IOC executive Denis Oswald during an IOC executive board meeting with the Summer Olympic International Federations at the SportAccord convention at the Congress Center in Quebec City May 23, 2012. REUTERS/Mathieu Belanger
