Coach a group of refugee athletes who just started a new sport, and help them qualify for Tokyo. In just one year. This is the ambitious project taken up by the three-time sport shooting Niccolò Campriani. Training began at the end of March 2019, with only to go. The journey of the three selected refugees is being original series Taking Refuge: Target Tokyo 2020.This weekend they will take part in their first test at the Italian shooting championships in Bologna. Campriani ended his ca...

With exactly one year to go before the start of the olympic games tokyo 2020, the organising committee (tocog) has at last unveiled the design of the medals that will be awarded at the games next summer. The winning designs were selected after a nationwide competition open to both professional designers and design students. A specially assigned selection panel had the difficult task of whittling down more than 400 entries before settling on the ideas presented by Junichi Kawanishi, Director...

The Kihinkan – Takanawa Manor House”: this is the Casa Italia headquarters at the next 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. The CONI Council made the decision today at the end of a long selection process of over 60 locations carried out during the last two years. The structure is characterized by a Liberty-style architecture from the start of the last century and is located in the Minato district about 10 kilometres form the Olympic Village and the Main Press Center. Financed totally by the CONI pa...