Tokyo 2020

Olympic expert and former Olympian available to comment on postponement of 2020 Tokyo Games

Mar 24, 2020

According to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach has agreed to postpone the 2020 Tokyo Games until 2021 because of the global COVID-19 pandemic. The director of Western University’s International Centre for Olympic...

Expert available to comment on formal investigation of head of Japan’s Olympic Committee

Jan 11, 2019

With news breaking that the head of Japan's Olympic Committee is being formally investigated in France for alleged corruption in the awarding of the 2020 Games to Tokyo, Michael Heine, the director of Western University’s International Centre for Olympic Studies...