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Spectators will be banned from Olympic venues in Tokyo because of a virus state of emergency, Japan's Olympic minister announced on Thursday, meaning the Games will happen mostly behind closed doors.
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Team GB ‘hugely confident’ Tokyo Games will go ahead - Stabroek News
LONDON, (Reuters) - Team GB Chef de Mission Mark England said yesterday he was confident the Tokyo Olympics would go ahead this year but athletes could expect them to be very different due to the COVID-19
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Kenya's Olympics Preps in Limbo As Kurume City Cancels Pre-Games Camp
[Nation] Team Kenya will now be forced to look for an alternative training base after Kurume City withdrew from hosting the team for the Tokyo Olympics pre-Games camp.
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#LetShaCarriRun: Thousands Sign Petition In Support Of Track Star Sha’carri Richardson
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Richardson bolts into history,Tokyo Olympics - Garland Journal
By Stacy M. BrownNNPA Newswire With lightning-like quickness and a will to dominate, Sha’Carri Richardson is on her way to the Olympics in Tokyo. The 21-year-old native of Dallas, TX, […] The post Richardson bolts into history,Tokyo Olympics appeared first on Garland Journal.
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Kenya: Gathimba Warms Up for Tokyo Olympics With Win At Kasarani
[Nation] Samuel Gathimba warmed up to Tokyo Olympic Games with victory in men's 20km race walk during the Kenyan trials on Friday at the Moi International Sports Centre.
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Asahi daily, an official Tokyo Olympics partner, urges Games cancellation - Stabroek News
TOKYO, (Reuters) - Japanese newspaper publisher Asahi Shimbun, an official partner of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, called for the Summer Games to be cancelled in an editorial today, citing risks to public safety and strains on the medical system from the COVID-19
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'Y'all Really do Anything to Remove People of Color': WNBA Star Liz Cambage Slams Australian Olympic Committee for Lack of Diversity In Promo Ad
Australian basketball and WNBA star Elizabeth 'Liz' Cambage recently reached a boiling point with the alleged 'whitewashing' taking place in the promo photos for the […]
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Sha’Carri Richardson Bolts Into History And Into Tokyo Olympics - The Seattle Medium
Jumping out to a fast start, Richardson appeared to purposely slow down toward the end of the race and point toward the clock, which registered her dramatic timing. “Nobody knows what I go through,” Richardson said in a post-race interview with
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Injury just another hurdle of life, says Hansle’s dad
Jumping over zinc fences and bearing the weight of old tyres as he ran up and down the hill of Cashew Lane in Port Morant, St Thomas, may have all contributed to the crowning of Hansle Parchment as the newest 110m hurdles Olympic champion....
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Cudjoe, Lewis rally behind Keshorn, Jereem - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Minister of Sport and Community Development Shamfa Cudjoe and TT Olympic Committee (TTOC) president Brian Lewis say they will continue to rally around TT’s athlete delegation as they remain in the hunt for medals at the Tokyo Games. With just five events to go – men’s sprint and keirin cycling
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Nigeria: No National Trials, No Olympics for You, Minister Warns Athletes
[Leadership] Abuja -- The minister of youth and sports development, Mr Sunday Dare, has urged athletes seeking to represent Nigeria at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games to come for National Trials, warning that any athletes who failed to come for the Trials would not make Team Nigeria to the Olympics.
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Olympics Banned Black Female Athlete For Five Years After Having An Abortion
It was reported that Brianna McNeal was the subject of tampering with the doping process and as a result was banned for five years from Olympics.
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IOC approves set of reforms for Games, host cities - Stabroek News
(Reuters) - The International Olympic Committee yesterday unanimously approved a set of 15 reforms it hopes will again turn the Olympics into an attractive prospect for fans, cities and sponsors through reduced cost, an increased digital presence and new revenue
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Alice Dearing, 24, becomes the first Black woman to represent Great Britain at the Olympic games.
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[Nation] President Uhuru Kenyatta Thursday bid farewell to Team Kenya athletes who will compete in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and urged them to compete effectively and fairly.
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Twitter Reacts to Sha’Carri Richardson’s Olympic Banning • EBONY
Sha’Carri Richardson’s Olympic ban has been ballyhood as an insult to the athlete’s journey and to those in the sport who have similar storylines. On Thursday, July 1, news broke that Ms. Richardson had tested positive for THC, a chemical routinely found in cannabis, while at the US Olympic trials
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Silver Medalist Raven Saunders Defies Olympic Protest Ban By Making An ‘X’ With Her Hands
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Tokyo Olympics medal tracker: Gold, silver, bronze counts for Team USA, every other country at 2020 Games news -The Black Chronicle
Getty Images The 2020 Tokyo Olympics are here. That means medals are being handed out. Below is a list of all the medals won during the 2020 Summer
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Namibia: Mbomastic! ... Sprinting Teen Sends Nation Into Frenzy
[New Era] Twenty-five years ago, sprint sensation Christine Mboma was not even born when Namibia's legendary sprint ace Frank Fredericks won the country's last Olympic medals in 1996.
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Nigeria: Dare Demands Athletes' Development Programme, Funding
[Daily Trust] For the umpteenth time, the Minister of Sports, Sunday Dare has declared that Nigeria urgently needs a private sector driven Athletes Development Program and a Sports Fund that is independent of government.
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