Irish sprinters Thomas Barr and Phil Healy have welcomed the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics until 2021, a decision announced today after talks between Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, and International Olympic Committee president, Thomas Bach.

“This decision, while totally appropriate, will impact on sport and our athletes in different ways, there will be mixed emotions.”

The Games will not now take place in 2020, but will happen no later than the summer of 2021.

Rob Heffernan has slammed the International Olympic Committee for delaying its decision about a possible postponement of the Tokyo Games, branding the IOC’s dithering as “ridiculous”.

Canada and Australia have already pulled out of this summer's Olympic Games in Tokyo but their Irish counterparts, while all but accepting that a postponement is inevitable, have refrained from the nuclear option for now.

Irish athletes are starting to add their voices to the calls for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to postpone this summer's Games in Tokyo.

The offices and the pitches and the gyms may be all but shuttered but sport persists.

Ireland captain Brendan Irvine qualified for Tokyo 2020 at the Copperbox Arena in London last night at a tournament that was abandoned because of the coronavirus outbreak.

Rowing Ireland are concerned by the immediate cancellation of all international events through March, April and May.

Irish tourism chiefs are on high alert over the summer season as question marks were raised for the first time about major global sporting events, including the Olympics -- if the coronavirus threat is not contained.

Pound says this summer's Olympics are more likely to be cancelled then postponed or moved should they prove too dangerous due to the coronavirus.

Boxing referees and judges involved in the Rio Olympics, who were all suspended following the Games, will not be allowed to officiate at Tokyo 2020, an International Olympic Committee task force said.

Some of the brains behind Ireland’s Olympic assault on Japan next summer are confident that Rory McIlroy and others competing in green can actually profit from the soaring temperatures and high humidity expected throughout the Games.

We’ve been wandering around Japan for five weeks and, while it’s been a wonderfully immersive experience, you would be fooling yourself if you thought you were doing anything more than dipping your toes in the waters.

The International Olympic Committee has announced plans to move the Tokyo 2020 marathon and race walking events over 800 kilometres south of Japan’s capital city to Sapporo.

August of 1969 was a month of events in Northern Ireland which have echoed down through history.

The Olympic Federation of Ireland (OFI) is hopeful that the International Olympic Council's (IOC) investigation into Pat Hickey and the Rio 2016 ticketing scandal will be completed before the Tokyo Games in 2020.

Olympic Federation of Ireland President Sarah Keane is “surprised” Pat Hickey received an invitation to attend next month’s European Games in Belarus.

The International Olympic Committee announced the safeguarding of boxing at next year's Tokyo Games but its executive board has recommended the suspension of the International Boxing Association.

What a difference a day made this week.

People often ask me why I recommend books in the corner of this page, and I have some stock responses.

If there's one way to deflect from the Olympics being routinely mired in scandals - it's to make make it more hip and urban for the kids.

The influence of law and politics on sport will continue to deepen in 2019. In the first of a two-part series, Jack Anderson looks at some landmark sporting anniversaries that fall this year.

Sport Ireland chief executive John Treacy has vowed that Irish fighters will continue to prepare ‘to the highest standards’ despite a row that threatens boxing’s participation in the 2020 Olympic Games.

The International Olympic Committee has frozen planning for the boxing tournament at Tokyo 2020 and started a process that could see it completely cut ties with the International Boxing Association (AIBA).

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has stopped planning for the boxing tournament at the Tokyo Olympics in 2020, in a potentially huge blow to Ireland's Olympic medal hopes.

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When you turn right off the Howth Road, coming out from Dublin city and you cross the wooden bridge onto the North Bull Wall, the sheer diversity of the world of sport announces itself.

The eventing nations cup hosted by Millstreet at the weekend gave us a glimpse — and a somewhat sobering one — of the future of equestrian sport at the Olympics. The Cork venue was staging the latest round of the FEI Eventing Nations Cup series which on this occasion was trialling the new Olympic format of three riders per team.

Being in Ireland for July, I got to see some hurling and follow Limerick as they marched into the All-Ireland. Reading the programme for the Limerick v Kilkenny All-Ireland, one page stood out. It was a full page on a GAA campaign called “Reduce the Odds”.

Michael Conlan wants to settle an old score after recording a convincing win in his homecoming bout in Belfast on Saturday night.

This is not a rant against cheerleading.

Double Olympic 800 metres champion Caster Semenya will have to take medication to lower her testosterone levels or move up to longer distances as a result of new rules announced today.

Double Olympic 800 metres champion Caster Semenya will have to take medication to lower her testosterone levels or move up to longer distances as a result of new rules which will be announced on Thursday, it's understood.

The head of Russia's Olympic Committee claims their Olympic ban has been lifted.