March 4, 2022
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Australia’s Four-Time Olympic Swimmer Cate Campbell Elected Chair Of The Australian Olympic Committee Athletes Commission Four-time Australian Olympic swimmer Cate Campbell, the winner of eight Olympic medals, has been elected
May 27, 2021
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Olympic sponsor the Asahi Shimbun published a staff editorial yesterday urging the Japanese Prime Minister to either cancel or delay the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
May 26, 2021
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With professional soccer and baseball games played in front of fans in Japan, voices calling for minimal Olympic attendance have begun to grow.
May 21, 2021
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IOC President Thomas Bach confirmed that as many as 75 percent of the residents of the Olympic Village are already vaccinated or have secured vaccination.
May 18, 2021
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With 100 days to go until the Paralympics begin, the logistics of the Games, including vaccination procedures, are still being worked through.
Sept. 7, 2020
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The postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics will go ahead next year, pandemic or not, IOC vide-president John Coates told the AFP on Monday. In a phone interview, Coates said that the Tokyo Olympics would be the “Games that conquered Covid,” referring to the COVID-19 disease stemming from the novel coronavirus outbreak that has plagued the world over the last 6 months. “The Games were going to be, their theme, the Reconstruction Games after the devastation of the tsunami,” he added, referring to a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan in 2011. “Now very much these will be t ...
July 17, 2020
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The Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee has secured all 43 venues for use during the rescheduled Olympic Games in July 2021, it was announced on Friday. The Olympic Village will also be used for its original intended purpose to house around 11,000 athletes after doubts were raised because of the handover of converted apartments to residents and developers following the Games which were due to start one week from today. So too was it confirmed that the International Broadcast Centre and Main Press Centre will be housed in the Tokyo International Exhibition Center, as was originally planne ...
March 24, 2020
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The Tokyo Olympics are to be postponed for one year after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee released a joint statement today confirming the news. The President of the IOC, Thomas Bach , and Japan’s Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe , reached the decision during a conference call this morning, declaring that a postponement rather than a cancellation was the best course of action. On Sunday, Bach announced that the IOC would take 4 weeks to evaluate options to proceed and make a plan for postponement or holding the Games as planned; however, in the ...
March 24, 2020
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The president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, and the Prime Minister of Japan, Abe Shinzo, held a conference call this morning to discuss the constantly changing environm…
