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Wed, April 21, 2021 | 05:30

Olympic President Bach to visit Japan in May, meet PM Suga: media

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach will visit Japan in May, Kyodo News Agency said Saturday, as the nation struggles to contain a surge in COVID-19 cases before the start of the Games.

2021-04-17 15:28

100-meter champ Coleman to miss Olympics despite reduced ban

The fastest man in the world, American sprinter Christian Coleman, will miss the Tokyo Olympics after failing Friday in an appeal to overturn his ban for missed doping tests. The Court of Arbitration for Sport did cut the 100-meter world champion's ban from two years to 18 months, but the ban won't expire until November, three months after the Olympics.

2021-04-16 18:24

Tokyo Olympics might yet be canceled due to COVID-19: Japanese official

A senior Japanese ruling party official said cancelling this year's Olympics in Tokyo remains an option if the coronavirus crisis becomes too dire, as a fourth wave of infections surges less than 100 days from the planned start of the Games.

2021-04-15 14:59

Korea projected to win 9 gold medals, rank 10th at Tokyo Olympics

South Korea is projected to capture nine gold medals to finish 10th overall at the upcoming Tokyo Olympics, a U.S. sports data analysis firm said Thursday. The latest version of the Virtual Medal Table by Gracenote, updated Wednesday with the countdown to the Tokyo Games reaching 100 days, also projected South Korea to add 10 silver and six bronze medals.

2021-04-15 09:36

Virus surges fuel fears 100 days before Tokyo Olympics

The Olympic flame is on its way across Japan and athletes around the world are ramping up training, but 100 days before Tokyo 2020 opens, organisers still face monumental challenges.

2021-04-14 15:30

How the 1964 Tokyo Olympics changed the face of Japan

The 1964 summer Olympic Games were Japan's great return to the world stage after its defeat and destruction two decades earlier in World War II. The first Games ever held in Asia were also a chance to trumpet the rebuilding of post-war Tokyo and the country's emergence as a high-tech giant with the infrastructure to match.

2021-04-13 18:02

70% of Japanese want Tokyo Games cancelled or delayed: poll

More than 70% of people in Japan want the Tokyo Olympics to be cancelled or delayed as the coronavirus pandemic rolls on, a Kyodo News poll showed on Monday, just over 100 days ahead of the planned start of the Games.

2021-04-12 19:44

Cloud of uncertainty remains as countdown to Tokyo Olympics nears 100 days

The countdown to the Tokyo Olympic Summer Games will reach 100 days Wednesday, if the competition opens as scheduled, that is. The 32nd edition of the Summer Olympics already got postponed by one year due to the global coronavirus pandemic, and the normally quadrennial event, now scheduled for July 23-Aug. 8 in the Japanese capital, will open in an odd-numbered year for the f...

2021-04-11 09:32

Beijing warns Washington not to boycott Winter Olympics

China's government warned Washington on Wednesday not to boycott next year's Winter Olympics in Beijing after the Biden administration said it was talking with allies about a joint approach to complaints of human rights abuses. A Foreign Ministry spokesperson rejected accusations of abuses against ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang region. He warned of an unspecified ``robust ...

2021-04-08 13:53

Jeremy Lin praises Dwyane Wade, Kyle Korver for anti-Asian hate stance

Jeremy Lin has praised NBA legend Dwyane Wade for speaking out against the growing attacks on the Asian-American Pacific Islander community in the US in his role as an NBA pundit. "(Kyle Korver and Dwyane Wade) making good points about Asians feeling invisible and that we all are seeking to live in peace and without fear," Lin wrote on Twitter, also praising 17-year NBA veter...

2021-04-04 11:07

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