Latest Olympics news

Galaxy S20+ 5G Olympic Games Edition is officially canceled

In a disappointing turn of events for Galaxy fans and supporters of the Olympic Games, Japanese carrier NTT Docomo has decided to cancel the release of the Galaxy S20+ 5G Olympic Games Edition. Originally planned to go on sale in July, the device has been canceled in light of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic games being […]

By Mihai Matei
3 years ago

Galaxy S20 marketing plans in Japan quashed by Olympics delay

Samsung is supporting the International Olympic Committee’s decision to postpone the Tokyo 2020 games until next year, but that’s not to say it won’t suffer any losses in regards to its market influence in Japan. Samsung is a long-time Olympics partner, and according to a recent Reuters report citing an anonymous Samsung official, the company […]

By Mihai Matei
3 years ago

Samsung supports IOC’s decision to postpone the Tokyo 2020 Olympics

You may have seen this coming if you’ve kept up to date with recent worldwide events, but the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games have been officially postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. Samsung, a long-time global partner of the Olympic Games, has addressed the issue and it has confirmed that it will ‘remain fully […]

By Mihai Matei
3 years ago

Olympics may be canceled but the Galaxy S20+ 5G Olympic Edition is real

Samsung and Japanese carrier NTT Docomo have announced the Galaxy S20+ 5G Olympic Games Edition; a limited run of the flagship bearing the Tokyo 2020 Olympics logo on a Matte Gold finish. It lacks the Samsung branding because ‘Galaxy’ is synonym to the company’s name in Japan, and because the device follows Samsung’s reworked 2020 […]

By Mihai Matei
3 years ago

Samsung is now a Gold Partner of Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games

Samsung has been a Worldwide Paralympic Partner for the past couple of years, and the company has now reportedly become a Gold Partner of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games in the ‘Wireless Communications Equipment’ category. As a Worldwide Paralympic Partner, Samsung has the right to use Paralympic Games emblem and designation in its marketing campaigns, […]

By Mihai Matei
3 years ago

Samsung rethinks 2020 Tokyo Olympics marketing strategy amid trade dispute

Samsung Electronics has decided to rework its marketing strategy for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, whereby the company’s name will be removed from advertisements in favor of the Galaxy brand name. The decision was made amid ongoing trade disputes between Japan and South Korea. Samsung has been an Olympics sponsor for a couple of decades but […]

By Mihai Matei
3 years ago

Trade tensions put Samsung’s Olympics sponsorship in a fix

Rising trade tensions between South Korea and Japan have put Samsung Electronics in an uncomfortable position as it is a worldwide sponsor for the Summer Olympics in Tokyo next year. It is one of the 13 The Olympic Partners (TOPs) and currently the only company from Korea to be part of this group. The Korean […]

By Naresh
4 years ago

Samsung to hand out limited edition Galaxy Note 8 at PyeongChang Paralympics

A couple of weeks before the 2018 Olympic Winter Games kicked off, Samsung revealed that it had made a PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Games Limited Edition Galaxy Note 8 to commemorate its partnership with the biggest sporting event in the world. Samsung has long been a Worldwide Olympic partner and it has made such limited edition […]

By Adnan Farooqui
5 years ago

Samsung created a SmartSuit to help improve training for Dutch short trackers

Samsung will continue its long association with the Olympics as the worldwide Olympic partner of the 2018 Winter Games that take place in PyeongChang, South Korea next month. Samsung Netherlands is sponsoring Sjinkie Knegt and Suzanne Schulting, two Dutch short track racers, and it has created a SmartSuit for them to help improve their training. […]

By Adnan Farooqui
5 years ago

‘The Anthem’ is Samsung’s global advertisement for Rio 2016 Olympic Games

Samsung is pulling out all the stops to make its presence felt at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. The company has released a couple of short films to bring us the stories of some athletes who are breaking barriers to compete at the Games this year and it has even released a limited edition Olympic […]

By Adnan Farooqui
7 years ago

NBC Olympics will provide VR coverage of Rio 2016 exclusively to the Samsung Gear VR

NBC Olympics has announced today that it’s going to provide virtual reality coverage of the Rio 2016 Olympics exclusively to the Samsung Gear VR. This is the first time that Olympics programming will be available in virtual reality, authenticated users of compatible Samsung smartphones in the United States will be able to access it with […]

By Adnan Farooqui
7 years ago

This is the Samsung Galaxy S7 edge Olympic Edition

We exclusively reported about the existence of the Galaxy S7 edge Olympic Edition three months ago. Now, a press render of the device has surfaced on the Internet. Samsung is the worldwide partner for Rio 2016 Olympics. Serial leaker Evan Blass has tweeted the first image of the Galaxy S7 edge Olympic Edition earlier today. As you […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
7 years ago

‘The Chant’ film by Samsung celebrates stories of defying barriers prior to the Olympics

Samsung today released a new film called “The Chant,” featuring South Sudanese athlete Margret Rumat Rumat Hassan (400-Meter Runner, South Sudan), who is hoping to compete under her country’s flag at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. This is going to be the first time ever that South Sudan sends a team to the Olympic Games […]

By Adnan Farooqui
7 years ago

Exclusive: Samsung Galaxy S7 Olympic Edition in the works?

Samsung is no stranger to releasing special editions of its flagship devices every now and then, and the company could be working on an Olympic edition of the Galaxy S7 or Galaxy S7 edge. We have received information that a device with codename Hero2_Olympic_edition is under development – the Galaxy S6 was codenamed Hero and the […]

By Abhijeet Mishra
7 years ago