The IOC also made clear that athletes who finish serving their anti-doping suspensions before the Tokyo 2020 unveils in 2021 could be eligible to participate in the Games.
In a Q&A post on its website, the IOC said, "Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed that Japan will continue to cover the costs it would have done under the terms of the existing agreement for 2020."
India's pistol shooter Abhishek Verma has said that meditation and Yoga are important to stay mentally strong during such times.
The 50-year-old reflected on sports in time of worldwide lockdowns and said chess seems to have coped well so far.
Since the nation-wide lockdown was announced, the team has suspended formal hockey training and is making the best use of this time to introspect on their own game and areas that require improvement.
Families for four passengers who were killed alongside Kobe Bryant and his daughter have sued the helicopter company.
India's sole individual Olympic gold medalist Abhinav Bindra has said that the lack of foreign exposure in the post-coronavirus world may allow India to build proper sporting infrastructure.
The online programme will be held five-days a week for three weeks and the entire course has been divided into 39 topics, giving an enriching opportunity for coaches at various levels to interact and learn from elite level coaches.
Mona Milkha Singh is a doctor at the Metropolitan Hospital Center in New York, attending to emergency patients of coronavirus.
The Chinese Professional Baseball League opened this week in Taiwan, becoming one of the first sporting events to resume in the country.
World Championships silver medallist Moudgil would have been fine-tuning her skills with the Tokyo Olympics knocking on the door at this time of the year had the coronavirus pandemic not reared its ugly head.
In India, the coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 500 people and infected over 17,000, forcing the government to lockdown the country till May 3 to contain the deadly disease.
A Japan professor of infectious diseases has said that he is 'very pessimistic' about the Olympics taking place in 2021.
Hockey India is carrying out interactive sessions for its registered technical officials and umpires, across six WhatsApp groups, three for technical officials and three for umpires.
Almost all sporting events in the world have come to a standstill due to the coronavirus pandemic with the Olympics also being postponed by a year.
Boxing Federation of India (BFI) became the first national federation to conduct a highly enriching session on Mental Fitness & Emotional Well-Being on Sunday
Bryant, 41, along with the couple's daughter Gianna, 13, and seven others were killed in the crash on a steep, hilly area in Calabasas, California in the morning of January 6.
Sridhar, however, said that the vaccine could be found earlier than what was expected.
All tournaments, big and small, have been either postponed or cancelled in recent times due to the fast-spreading novel coronavirus.
Nieva is currently in Patiala's National Institute of Sports, busy delivering lectures in online classes for coaches by the Sports Authority of India.
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