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The Olympics: A guide to summer and winter games and sports, Olympic history and symbols, and iconic athletes
The Olympic Games are the world's most prestigious international athletic competitions. Here's what…
Samantha Grindell
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Japan's Olympic teams have a plan to stop voyeuristic creeps
Japan's Olympic athletes will wear new uniforms that block infrared cameras, preventing voyeurs fro…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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The Olympics is reportedly losing its largest sponsor over concerns the IOC is not doing enough to support the athletes
Toyota will reportedly end its lucrative sponsorship deal with the IOC after the 2024 Paris Olympic…
Cork Gaines
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Disgraced former Olympic Organizing Committee chair wanted a 'pure Japanese man' to light the Olympic flame, not Naomi Osaka, who is half-Japanese, a new report says
A committee staffer said Mori called ex-MLB player Hideki Matsui "a pure Japanese man and a basebal…
Lauren Frias
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Video shows the Olympics committee chief accidentally calling Japanese people Chinese, before quickly correcting himself
Thomas Bach slipped up while promising "safe and secure games" for the Japanese people ahead of the…
Alexandra Ma
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The Summer Olympics face corruption allegations for the 3rd time in a row as police raid the 2024 Paris Olympics offices
Both the 2016 Rio Olympics and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics were marred by similar allegations against o…
Katie Hawkinson
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16 people from All Japan Judo Federation test positive for Coronavirus
Japan's judo governing body said that those infected consist of 12 men and 4 women, including ma…
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Olympics 2021: Three athletes test positive for COVID-19, two of them were staying at Olympic village
The organisers did not specify whether the two infected athletes staying at the village w…
PTI
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21 new COVID-19 cases reported at Tokyo Olympics, no athletes among them
None of them were staying in the Olympic village, the organising committee said. The cumul…
PTI
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Tokyo is so hot that Olympic beach volleyball players had to stop practicing because the sand was burning their feet
The games are forecast to be the hottest in Olympic history, and athletes could be subjected to hea…
Sam Cooper
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International Olympic Committee to provide 24 hours mental-health counselling to athletes during the Games
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has set up a 24-hour helpline, called 'Mentally Fit Helpl…
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A group of thousands of Japanese doctors want to cancel the Olympics as COVID-19 cases surge
The Tokyo Medical Practitioners Association, which is made up of 6,000 physicians, said that Japan'…
Kelly McLaughlin
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Almost 2,500 images have been reported to a new Japanese service designed to help stop sportswomen being sexualized
The service was set up last year after a number of former national team athletes complained of havi…
Barnaby Lane
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A Japanese Olympic opening ceremony musician apologized then resigned as a decades-old scandal resurfaced
During an interview in the 1990s, Keigo Oyamada bragged about an incident of bullying in which he s…
Alan Dawson
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A Japanese mayor who bit an Olympian's gold medal has offered to forfeit $13,000 of pay as a punishment
Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura bit the gold medal of softball player Miu Goto during a victory event…
Barnaby Lane
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A Russian judoka passed out on the mat after being put in a brutal chokehold by her Japanese opponent
Japan's Chizuru Arai put Russia's Madina Taimazova in a chokehold, temporarily leaving her passed o…
Scott Davis
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The Japanese boxer who opened the Tokyo Olympics was denied a chance to actually compete in the games because her qualifier was cancelled
The International Olympic Committee decided to award places for boxers in Tokyo based solely on ran…
Barnaby Lane
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A Belarusian Olympian who complained about her coaches used Google Translate to relay her plea for help to Japanese police
Team officials "made it clear that, upon return home, I would definitely face some form of punishme…
Lauren Frias
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The president of the Tokyo Olympics organizing committee apologized for saying women have an 'annoying' tendency to make meetings run long
Yoshiro Mori, the president of the Japan Olympic Committee, said that women are "competitive" and w…
Scott Davis
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A Japanese softball player will get a replacement for her Olympic gold medal after her city mayor sank his teeth into the first one
Takashi Kawamura, the mayor of Nagoya, bit softball pitcher Miu Goto's gold medal during her hometo…