The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has paid tribute to the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki, whose work "Ekecheiria" was used as part of the Opening Ceremony for the Munich 1972 Olympic Games. 

The cricket world has been remembering the mathematician Tony Lewis who has died aged 78.

The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Flame has been put on public display in Fukushima, where it will remain until the end of April before it is moved to the Japanese capital.

The 2021 Mediterranean Games in Oran have been postponed until 2022 after a joint decision made by the Algerian Government and the International Committee for the Mediterranean Games (CIJM).

The Olympic Flame is to be put on display in the host city of Tokyo next month following the postponement of the Games because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

A leading Olympic collector has told insidethegames the unprecedented postponement of Tokyo 2020 will give an unexpected boost for the Organising Committee.

Tokyo 2020 have insisted that the Olympic Flame will begin its journey around Japan on Thursday (March 26) but expect it to be transported in a safety lantern by car.

Tokyo 2020 President Yoshirō Mori has said that a decision on whether to continue the Olympic Torch Relay will be made in the coming days.

Huge crowds have turned out to see the Olympic Flame when it was put on display at Sendai railway station in the Japanese prefecture of Miyagi in spite of advice not to congregate.

Strong gusty winds greeted the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Flame as it arrived on Japanese soil in a very low-key ceremony at Matsushima Air Base in the prefecture of Miyagi.

Swimming Olympian Naoko Imoto received the Olympic Flame on behalf of Tokyo 2020 at a shortened ceremony at the historic Panathinaiko Stadium in Athens.

The Hellenic Olympic Committee have announced that Japanese swimmer Naoko Imoto will receive the Olympic Flame on behalf of Tokyo 2020 during the handover Ceremony in the Panathinaiko Stadium in Athens tomorrow.

A special charter aircraft has left Tokyo's Haneda Airport to collect the Olympic Flame in Athens, but has done so without a delegation from Tokyo 2020 on board.

A Tokyo 2020 delegation will not fly to Athens to collect the Olympic Flame tomorrow as was originally planned.