The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board (EB) today met for the second time in 2020 on the first of two days of discussions at Olympic House in Lausanne, Switzerland.

After the thrills, noise, and all-in excitement of the mixed nations 3-on-3 event, ice hockey returns to the Lausanne 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games on Friday with six-team tournaments for men and women.

Shorter, faster formats of traditional sports are on the rise worldwide: consider the success of 3x3 basketball, Twenty20 cricket and beach volleyball. Might 3-on-3 ice hockey be the next big thing?

Communication is not always easy in a team featuring athletes from 13 different National Olympic Committees (NOCs).

To mark the unveiling of the Paris 2024 Games emblem, olympic.org takes a look back at some of the most well-known emblems from Olympic Games editions in the modern era, stretching back over a century.

Worldwide TV broadcasting by satellite; a big leap for the pole vault with fibre glass poles; and swimming with timing touch pads fixed to the pool walls… But also the last athletics races at the Games on a cinder track – the Games in Tokyo served as a springboard to the future… to the next edition, in 2020!

For the Games of the XVIII Olympiad, Kon Ichikawa directed a film that has gone down in Olympic history. The Japanese filmmaker opted for an artistic approach to showcase the beauty and intensity of sport, its joys and exertions, and the faces of athletes from all over the world, in a lyrical work of stylistic beauty that has left a truly lasting impression.