Olympics

Eight-time Ballon d’Or winner Lionel Messi has confirmed in an interview with US broadcaster ESPN that he will not attempt to win a second gold medal with Argentina at the Paris Olympics this summer. “I spoke with (Argentinian Olympic…
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Despite threats from climate change, AI-enhanced doping or competition from e-sports, the boss of the International Olympic Committee believes the future has never looked so bright for his sports movement. Thomas Bach, a 70-year-old…
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President Emmanuel Macron vowed on Sunday that 2024 will be the year of French pride and hope, marked by the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer Games and the re-opening of Notre-Dame cathedral after a devastating fire. “Only once in a century…
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At a UN General Assembly meeting packed with global gloom, Japan’s outgoing leader highlighted what he cast as a moment of inspiration: the Tokyo Olympics, controversially held in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. “While humanity…
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Today, Tuesday, Algerian champion Yasser Triki qualified for the final round of the triple jump competitions at the Olympic Games in Tokyo. Triki was able to obtain the final visa after achieving a jump of 17.05 meters, in the third…
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This summer, the Tokyo Olympics will witness a new and historic event, as transgender weightlifter from New Zealand, Laurel Hubbard, will participate in the women's heavyweight weightlifting competition. The New Zealand Olympic Committee…
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Seiko Hashimoto, president of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Organizing Committee, said that workers at the Olympic Games will be vaccinated from the middle of this month. Hashimoto added that journalists will not share housing during the…
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Critics of Japan’s plan to hold the Tokyo Olympics despite a fourth wave of coronavirus infections submitted a petition on Friday signed by 350,000 people over nine days calling for the Games to be canceled. “Stop Tokyo Olympics”…
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Tokyo 2020 President Seiko Hashimoto highlighted the power of sport on Thursday as she expressed condolences on the anniversary of a deadly earthquake and tsunami, saying it provided hope for survivors and in facing the coronavirus. On…
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These last eight months of pandemic have deprived us of our lives as we knew them, but among all our routine, one might have been hit the hardest: our freedom to move. Athletes were particularly badly hit as training and games were…
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