SAPPORO--Sapporo Mayor Katsuhiro Akimoto announced on Dec. 19 that the city would suspend its bid to host the Winter Olympics as it will be unlikely to host the Games for the next 18 years.

SAPPORO--The city of Sapporo’s hopes of hosting the Winter Olympics in 2038 were dashed after hugely popular Hokkaido Governor Naomichi Suzuki called on the municipal government to scrap the idea.

TASS/. The representatives of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Japanese officials may have conducted unofficial consultations to hold the 2030 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, the Kyodo ...

Sapporo, which hosted the 1972 Winter Olympics, already has world class ski venues in place, while bobsleigh and sledding are proposed to be held in Nagano, which hosted the 1998 Winter Olympics.

For Team USA’s Ryan Cochran-Siegle, Alpine skiing is the family business. Not only did his mother, Barbara Ann Cochran, win slalom gold at the 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics, she also runs the Richmond, ...

Sapporo is believed to still hold an advantage ... funded entirely with $6.8 billion of private sector cash. A 2030 Winter Olympics in the U.S. would require sharing the marketing platform with ...

The Sapporo Dome hosted the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 2017 Asian Winter Games and is one of the planned venues for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, hosting football. Other venues for the Games ...

Japan missed out on securing an automatic Olympic berth in men's curling as it fell to a 4-7 record in the round-robin st ...

Wallace — who died April 6 from causes incident to age — was part of the 1966 team that pitched Utah as a site for the Winter Olympics. He was 97. Sapporo, Japan, would get the bid that year ...

The Sapporo Dome hosted the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 2017 Asian Winter Games and is one of the planned venues for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, hosting football. Other venues for the Games ...