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Tokyo-Olympics

Sports 5 years ago

When the Games went viral: Historic Olympic health scares

Tokyo 2020, which had been due to start on Friday until it was postponed for a year, will not be the first Olympic Games to face a health crisis, although the scale of the challenge posed by COVID-19 is unprecedented.AFP looks at previous Olympics that went ahead in the face of viral outbreaks.

Sports 5 years ago

Virus vaccine key for Olympics go-ahead in 2021: Tokyo chief

The development of a coronavirus vaccine or treatment will be key to allowing the postponed Tokyo 2020 games to open in a year's time, organizing committee president Yoshiro Mori said Wednesday.

Sports 5 years ago

A year to go, rearranged Tokyo Games still shrouded in uncertainty

Tokyo 2020 organizers will host celebrations marking the one-year countdown to the Olympics on Thursday but with the postponed Games still shrouded in uncertainty they are sure to be more muted than the first attempt 12 months ago.

Sports 5 years ago

Only one quarter of Japanese want Olympics next year: poll

Just one in four people in Japan want to see the coronavirus-delayed Tokyo Games held next year, with most backing either further delay or a cancellation, a new poll shows.

Sports 5 years ago

Judo founder's hometown hoping for Olympic spotlight

Jigoro Kano's picture hangs in dojos worldwide, but the Japanese founder of judo is sometimes overlooked in his own home town of Kobe -- something fans are hoping the Tokyo Olympics will change.

Sports 5 years ago

Japan and judo - an unbreakable bond

Judo, Japan and the Olympics have an inextricable bond. The sport was created in the late 19th century by the revered Jigoro Kano, who would become Japan's -- and Asia's -- first International Olympic Committee member.

Sports 5 years ago

IOC remains 'fully committed' to staging Olympics in 2021

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) remains fully committed to staging the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021 and is considering multiple scenarios for them to take place safely, IOC President Thomas Bach said on Wednesday.

Sports 5 years ago

Tokyo Olympics at risk if coronavirus mutates, gets stronger: Japan adviser

The Tokyo Olympics may have to be postponed again if the novel coronavirus mutates into a stronger pathogen, Kiyoshi Kurokawa, a prominent Japanese government adviser, said on Wednesday.

Sports 5 years ago

Tokyo Games likely to be pared down, says JOC chief

The rearranged Tokyo Olympics are likely to be a pared-down version of recent editions of the four-yearly Games, Japanese Olympic Committee chairman Yasuhiro Yamashita said on Tuesday.

Sports 5 years ago

Olympics must go ahead next year as symbol of overcoming COVID-19, Tokyo governor says

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, often floated as a future Japanese premier, said on Monday the Olympics must go ahead next year as a symbol of world unity in overcoming the novel coronavirus, even as her city grapples with stubborn spikes in cases.

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When the Games went viral: Historic Olympic health scares

Virus vaccine key for Olympics go-ahead in 2021: Tokyo chief

A year to go, rearranged Tokyo Games still shrouded in uncertainty

Only one quarter of Japanese want Olympics next year: poll

Judo founder's hometown hoping for Olympic spotlight

Japan and judo - an unbreakable bond

IOC remains 'fully committed' to staging Olympics in 2021

Tokyo Olympics at risk if coronavirus mutates, gets stronger: Japan adviser

Tokyo Games likely to be pared down, says JOC chief

Olympics must go ahead next year as symbol of overcoming COVID-19, Tokyo governor says

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