Ahead of tomorrow’s World Refugee Day, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) figures state that the number of forcibly displaced people continues to grow. The IOC, with its Olympic Refuge Foundation, is strongly committed to helping refugees and displaced populations through sport.

Jan-Ove Waldner, the legendary table tennis player, is a household name far beyond his native Sweden. His decades-long career now over, the Barcelona 1992 men’s singles champion is still a huge draw in China – and for Swedish multinationals...

Ahead of the 2019 IOC Women and Sport Awards, we look at what two previous winners of the World Trophy have been doing since they received their awards.

The second month of 2019 saw a host of former Youth Olympic Games (YOG) athletes amass an impressive haul of World Championship and continental medals, further enhancing the YOG’s reputation as a springboard to success in the senior ranks.

The taekwondo stars of tomorrow showed the world what they are capable of across five days of exciting competition at the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) Buenos Aires 2018. Sharing the golds out at the Youth Olympic Park’s Oceania Pavilion were fighters from Russia, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Republic of Korea, Thailand and Morocco. 

The next generation of track and field stars showed plenty of consistency and determination over six exciting days of athletics competition at the Youth Olympic Games Buenos Aires 2018.