It’s game on for Finland and Switzerland in the women’s hockey tournament at the Milan Cortina Olympics on Saturday after both nations had to deal with a stomach virus affecting players.

The International Olympic Committee says it's impressed with the new hockey arena for the Milan Cortina Games.

The backlash against Israel over the humanitarian toll of the war in Gaza has spread into the arenas of sports and culture.

Olympic organizers say they’re addressing complaints about isolation conditions for athletes who test positive for the coronavirus.

Christophe Dubi, Olympic Games Executive Director for the International Olympic Committee (IOC), joins other representatives from the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) at a Joint press briefing in Tokyo on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. “There are indeed a lot of questions in the public domain about how the games will take place this summer. And today is a preliminary review of how things will be done," Olympic Games executive director Christophe Dubi said in a video news conference with Tokyo officials. The rollout of the Playbooks is aimed at assuring athletes, and an attempt to convince the Japanese public that the Olympics should go ahead. The IOC held a similar session earlier in the week with Olympic athletes and their representatives to explain the stringent guidelines in their rule books.