Olympic Bid

Weber Shandwick, one of the world's leading global communications and engagement firms, has been appointed to support squash's 2024 Olympic bid. [...]

Summer Games to return to the United States for first time in thirty-two years. [...]

The sport of Squash has been confirmed as a showcase sport at the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in October 2018. [...]

In the wake of last week’s WSF AGM, the PSA have reiterated their belief that the existing WSF structure must be overhauled in order for the sport to progress. [...]

For the second time in two years, squash's Tokyo 2020 Olympic dreams have been crushed. [...]

The final decision will be taken at the 129th IOC Session in Rio in August 2016. [...]

The Tokyo 2020 squash delegation are confident following their presentation to the Tokyo organizing committee Friday. [...]

Squash will present its case for Olympic inclusion to the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee Friday. [...]

Squash is one step closer to Olympic inclusion, joining seven other sports on the Tokyo 2020 additional events shortlist. [...]

The Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee has received applications from 26 IOC-recognized International Federations proposing events to be considered for inclusion at Tokyo Olympic Games 2020. [...]

The United States Olympic Committee announced a nine-stop tour for Team USA on the “Road to Rio, “ building to the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The first stop on the “Road” brings Team USA to Philadelphia for the Fourth of July. What better way to celebrate Independence Day than to highlight the athletic accomplishments [...]

The Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee opened the application process for additional events to be included at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad. [...]

Article courtesy of the World Squash Federation. The International Paralympic Committee (IPC), the global governing body of the Paralympic Movement, has confirmed the World Squash Federation as one of its Recognised International Federations. The vision of the IPC is to enable Paralympic athletes to achieve sporting excellence and inspire and excite the world – an [...]

According to Around the Rings (ATR), an online newsletter dedicated to the Olympics, IOC President Thomas Bach revealed some big news regarding the Olympics and, in particular, for those sports like squash that have been working hard to gain inclusion on the Olympic Program. A month after the IOC dropped the twenty-eight sport cap on [...]

US Squash CEO Kevin Klipstein visits Colorado to talk Olympics with IOC President Thomas Bach [...]

WSF President N. Ramachandran has had the opportunity to press the case for Squash to be added to the 2020 Olympic Games. [...]

A 28-sport cap has been dropped for future Olympic Games as part of a 40-point action plan to revamp the sporting showpiece. [...]

Article courtesy of The New York Times. BOSTON — Sports reform is all the rage, and with good reason. Sebastian Coe, who ran to world records and then ran the successful London Olympics, announced his candidacy for the presidency of track and field’s world governing body in the past week by laying out all that [...]

Former IOC Vice President Dick Pound says the world's top women have the 'opportunity and responsibility' to see squash join the Olympic program. [...]

IOC President Thomas Bach today revealed the 40 proposals that make up Olympic Agenda 2020, including re-evaluating the Olympic program. [...]

Last week's announcement of a historic merger agreement between the PSA and the WSA couldn't have been much more timely if it tried. [...]

A peak television audience of one million viewers tuned in to BBC1 to watch the Commonwealth Games squash finals. [...]

Prince Imran Tunku, the Commonwealth Games Federation president handed squash a significant boost in its bid for continued Olympic inclusion. [...]

Significant changes to the way in which sports events are selected for the Olympics look to be on the way, following a wide-ranging Summit meeting. [...]

Article and image courtesy of the World Squash Federation. World Squash Federation President N Ramachandran, who attended the Sochi Winter Olympic Games as the newly-elected President of the Indian Olympic Association, is encouraged by the IOC vision to introduce new sports to the Summer Games program “sooner rather than later”. Ramachandran, who led the Squash [...]