Tag: TOKYO 2020
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Sullied by bid-rigging, bribery trials more than two years after Games closed
The bid-rigging trial around the Tokyo Olympics played out yesterday in a Japanese courtroom — more than two years after the Games closed — with advertising ... -
Tokyo2020 | Japan’s PM thanks people for safe Olympics during pandemic
Japan’s prime minister thanked people for helping the country safely hold the Olympics despite the difficulties of the coronavirus pandemic. He noted the Games were delayed ... -
Tokyo 2020 | Mixed bag: Erratic Pandemic Olympics wind to a nuanced end
It began with a virus and a yearlong pause. It ends with a typhoon and, still, a virus. In between: just about everything. The Tokyo Olympics, ... -
Tokyo 2020 | Perfect 10s: China’s Quan dominates for Olympic diving gold
It could have been confused for a lesson in computer coding on the scoreboard: 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10. And in some ways, it ... -
Triple jump | Cuban-born Pichardo wins first gold for Portugal
Portugal has waited 13 years to see one of its own climb atop the podium at the Olympics. Yesterday, that wait came to an end. Pedro ... -
Women’s Football | Gold medal match moved to Friday night
The Olympic women’s soccer gold-medal match between Canada and Sweden has been moved from Friday morning in Tokyo to the evening in Yokohama. There were concerns ... -
Tokyo 2020 | Another gold, 1-2 finish for China in diving
Before his final bounce off the board, Xie Siyi felt like he was in a movie. The scenes of his life flashed before him. Then, he ... -
Tokyo 2020 | Shi Tingmao of China completes Olympic 3-meter diving sweep
Hearing the start of her introduction, Chinese diver Shi Tingmao put one foot on the top spot of the podium. She sheepishly stepped back down and ... -
Tokyo 2020 | Haughey wins rare medals for Hong Kong; out of 50 free swim
Siobhán Haughey had already made history at the Tokyo Olympics. Then she went out and burnished her legacy in the pool. The 23-year-old swimmer from Hong ... -
Roundup of Olympic gold medals from Wednesday
CYCLING: WOMEN’S TIME TRIAL Annemiek van Vleuten roared to an emphatic victory in the women’s time trial at the Tokyo Olympics. The Dutch rider led by ... -
Olympic outsider teams celebrate rare gold medals in Tokyo
The Tokyo Olympics have brought some unexpected gold medals for countries and teams which rarely, if ever, see their athletes on the podium. Here’s a look ... -
Tokyo reports record virus cases days after Olympics begin
Japan’s capital, Tokyo, reported its highest number of new coronavirus infections yesterday, days after the Olympics began. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga urged people to avoid non-essential ... -
Pandemic Olympics endured heat, and now a typhoon’s en route
First, the sun. Now: the wind and the rain. The Tokyo Olympics, delayed by the pandemic and opened under oppressive heat, are due for another hit ... -
A first-ever gold – and a lesson – in Olympic skateboarding
Had the first-ever Olympic skateboarding champion ridden his board out of the venue where he made history Sunday at the Tokyo Games, he quickly would have ... -
Tokyo, Paris, LA, Brisbane – 2032 Olympics go to Australia
How about this for an Olympic-scale list of world cities: Athens, Beijing, London, Rio, Tokyo, Paris, Los Angeles and, wait for it, Brisbane. Since the Summer ... -
Olympics finally to start, one year later and far from Tokyo
Skippy the yellow kangaroo with green paws was affixed to the first base dugout railing, watching the Australia Spirit become the first team to work out ... -
China sending more than 400 athletes to Tokyo Olympics
China will send 431 athletes to the Tokyo Games as part of a 777-member delegation, its largest at an Olympics outside China, the official Xinhua News ... -
Olympics | Tokyo event shaping up to be TV-only with few fans
The pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics are shaping up as a TV-only event with few spectators — if any — being allowed when they open in just over ...
