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Set to run the 100m and 200m in the T-13 visually impaired category, Smyth has five Paralympic gold medals (two Beijing 2008, two London 2012, one Rio 2016). File picture.

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Just the dates have changed on Smyth’s Tokyo mission

Jason Smyth will be 34 at Tokyo 2021 if the Games occupy the same calendar slot, but he isn’t worried that time will catch up his legs.

Rio Olympic Games 2016 - Closing Ceremony

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Olympics to be postponed until 2021, IOC confirms

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

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Irish chiefs toe IOC line but Games set for delay

Irish Olympic chiefs have opted against pulling their athletes from the Olympics, should it proceed as planned, but there was a resigned acceptance in their utterances yesterday that a Games due to take place in Japan’s searing summer heat will be placed in cold storage.

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Three-month window to decide the fate of Tokyo Olympics

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IOC to safeguard boxing at Tokyo Olympics - but suspend governing body

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Thaw in the air even in sub-zero temperatures

Thomas Bach defends IOC’s handling of Russia doping case

President Thomas Bach defended the International Olympic Committee’s approach to the Russian doping problem, even though the final Winter Olympics participants will not be confirmed until hours before tomorrow’s opening ceremony.

Thu, 08 Feb, 2018

Richard McLaren: ‘It is impossible to know just how deep this goes’

A new report into systematic Russian doping details a wide-ranging “institutional conspiracy” that involved more than 1,000 athletes across more than 30 sports, including evidence corroborating large-scale sample swapping at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.

Sat, 10 Dec, 2016

IOC’s retesting of 454 Beijing Olympic samples throws up 31 cheats

The International Olympic Committee has retested 454 anti-doping samples taken from athletes at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, catching 31 cheats from six different sports and 12 countries.

Wed, 18 May, 2016

Successive suicide blasts in Russia kill more than 30

IOC President Thomas Bach expressed full confidence yesterday that Russian authorities will deliver a “safe and secure” Winter Olympics in Sochi despite the two deadly suicide bombings in southern Russia that heightened concerns about the terrorist threat to the Games.

Tue, 31 Dec, 2013

Obama to send gay delegates to Sochi Olympics

Barack Obama has sent Russia a clear message about its treatment of gays and lesbians with his choices to represent the United States at the Sochi Winter Olympics.

Wed, 18 Dec, 2013

Bid to bring Olympic Games to South Africa to fulfil wish

Anti-apartheid campaigner and IOC member Sam Ramsamy wants to bring the Olympics to South Africa so that he can fulfil one of Nelson Mandela’s last wishes.

Sat, 07 Dec, 2013