On 18 February, the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee set sail into a new era – that of the presidency of seven-time Olympian Hashimoto Seiko, unanimously appointed by the Tokyo 2020 Executive Board (EB). With less than four months to go to the Olympic Games, the new Tokyo 2020 President is wasting little time, having already added 12 women to the Organising Committee’s EB as the first step in her commitment to gender equality and female empowerment.   

As we celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Winter Youth Olympic Games Lillehammer 2016 – and the 27th anniversary of the Olympic Winter Games Lillehammer 1994 – we look at how the Lillehammer Olympic Legacy Sports Centre has carried their legacy on, helping drive the growth in winter sports at home and abroad.

The remarkable Hungarian former gymnast, who survived the Nazis and went on to win 10 Olympic medals, 5 of them gold, turns 100 today.

Olympic.org picks out some of the most impressive performances from former Youth Olympic Games (YOG) athletes in recent weeks, as more and more elite sporting events return in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Denmark’s women’s handball team reigned supreme for the decade straddling the turn of the millennium, winning Olympic gold in 1996, 2000 and 2004. Katrine Fruelund was at the heart of the latter two teams – and battled confidence issues to become one of her country’s greatest ever Olympians.