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Japan doubles down on Tokyo Olympics, denies report of cancellation
Japan doubled down on its commitment to host the Tokyo Olympics this year and flatly denied reports on Friday of a cancellation, in a move that is unlikely to temper public fears of holding the event during a global pandemic.
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Can Tokyo Safely Host the Olympic Games This Summer?
It is Tokyo’s fate to stage the world’s largest sporting event a year later than planned, at a time of global economic uncertainty and amid a pandemic that will be far from over on July 23. Is it really ready?
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Breakdancing Gets Added To The Olympics For 2024 Paris Games
You never thought that Hip Hop would take it this far.
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How Japan is scrambling to save the Tokyo Olympics
Facial recognition, particle analysis and hundreds of millions of vaccine doses are all part of the plan to make sure the Olympics goes ahead next summer
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Tokyo Olympics: Many rules, no partying, no hanging around
TOKYO (AP) — Athletes at the Tokyo Olympics won't have the luxury of hanging around once they've wrapped up their event. No late-night parties in the Athletes Village. No nights — or early...
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Tokyo Olympics To Be Held “With Or Without Covid” In 2021, International Olympic Committee Says
The trajectory of the COVID-19 pandemic still remains unclear as 2021 approaches, but the International Olympic Committee confirmed that one thing is for certain.
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U.S. threat to pull WADA funding could leave Americans out of Olympics
America's top athletes could be banned from the Olympics and other major international sporting events if the United States follows through on its threat to withdraw funding from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), anti-doping leaders told Reuters.
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Japan's Abe says impossible to hold Olympics unless pandemic contained
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Wednesday that the Tokyo Olympics could not take place next year unless the coronavirus pandemic is contained, as the city's governor requested an extension of Japan's state of emergency.
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Tokyo Olympics: Fifa could move age limit for men's football tournament to 24
Fifa could raise the age limit for the men's football tournament at next summer's rearranged Olympics to 24.
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Tokyo Olympics postponed to 2021 due to coronavirus pandemic
The Tokyo Olympics are to be postponed until 2021 after talks between Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, and the International Olympic Committee president, Thomas Bach. Abe said they had established that cancelling the Games was out of the question, and that Bach had agreed “100%” that a postponement was the most appropriate response to the global disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
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IOC member says that 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be postponed due to coronavirus pandemic
Veteran IOC member Dick Pound told USA TODAY Sports that "postponement has been decided" for the 2020 Olympics, and that it won't start July 24.
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'I Was Raising Hell': Fired Ex-U.S. Olympic VP Says He Exposed Athlete Mistreatment
Bill Moreau, a former vice president with the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee, says the issue has been in the public spotlight for years and officials still aren't doing enough to prevent abuse.
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Olympians to Sleep on Cardboard Beds in Tokyo
The bed frames will be recycled into paper products after the Olympics.
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Agnes Keleti, oldest living Olympic champion and Holocaust survivor, turns 99
Agnes Keleti, the oldest living Olympic champion and a Holocaust survivor, earned 10 gymnastics medals between the 1952 and 1956 Olympics. Keleti is the oldest living Olympic champion and a Holocaust survivor. She won 10 medals in gymnastics — including five golds — between the 1952 Helsinki Games and at the 1956 Melbourne Games.
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Iran's sole female Olympic medalist says she's defected
Iran's sole female Olympic medalist Kimia Alizadeh announced that she has permanently left her country for Europe. "Let me start with a greeting, a farewell or condolences," the 21-year--old wrote in an Instagram post explaining why she was defecting. "I am one of the millions of oppressed women in Iran who they have been playing with for years."
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Russia banned from Tokyo Olympics and football World Cup
The World Anti-Doping Agency has banned Russia from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and the 2022 World Cup
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The most exciting thing about the 2020 Games might be the robots
Toyota shared its electric vehicle and robot lineup for the 2020 Olympic Games. Things are about to get weird.
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The 2020 Olympics Are Likely to Be a Disaster
After spending a day with Tokyo’s anti-Olympics organizers, it was clear why they are angry about the 2020 Olympics—and that they are ready to fight.
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Michael Phelps: 'I am extremely thankful that I did not take my life'
The most decorated Olympian of all time, swimmer Michael Phelps, opened up about his battle with depression and said he contemplated suicide at the height of his career.
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Tokyo unveils 2020 Olympic medals, made from more than 6 million recycled cellphones
The Olympic medals are made from precious metals extracted from recycled electronics and melted down
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