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Chef de Mission meeting: Olympics to go ahead, six officials from each nat
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], July 21 (ANI): The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) Secretary General Rajeev Mehta has stated that in the meeting of Chef de Mission of all the participating nations, it has been reiterated that the Tokyo Olympics will go ahead.
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Tokyo 2020: Chilean taekwondo athlete first to withdraw from Olympics afte
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], July 21 (ANI): A Chilean taekwondo athlete will withdraw from the Tokyo Olympics after testing positive for the COVID-19, Chile's Olympic committee confirmed on Wednesday.
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Fujitsu appoints iMocha as its global skills assessment partner
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], July 21 (ANI/PRNewswire): Fujitsu, a leading Japanese multinational information and communications technology equipment and services company, has appointed iMocha, the world's largest AI-powered skills assessment platform, as its global skills assessment partner f
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Tokyo 2020 chief does not rule out cancellation of Games amid COVID-19 sca
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], July 21 (ANI): The head of the Tokyo 2020 organising committee Toshiro Muto has not ruled out the cancellation of the Olympic Games amid the COVID-19 scare.
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Tokyo Olympics: Paddler Manika Batra requests FOP access for personal coac
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], July 21 (ANI): Two days prior to the start of the Tokyo Olympics, paddler Manika Batra has requested India's chef-de-mission BP Baishya to allow the field of play (FOP) access for her personal coach Sanmay Paranjape.
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UN and IOC launch stamps to honour role of sport for peace
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], July 21 (ANI): The United Nations and International Olympic Committee (IOC) launched a series of stamps to honour the role of sport for peace.
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IOC Session: Pandemic will end when world chooses to end it, says WHO DG
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], July 21 (ANI): The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, delivered the keynote address at the 138th International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session here in Tokyo on Wednesday where he stated that the pandemic will end when the world
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Australian Olympic equestrian rider suspended after positive cocaine test
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], July 21 (ANI): Australian equestrian rider Jamie Kermond has been provisionally suspended just days before Tokyo Olympic Games for returning a positive drug test for cocaine.
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Tokyo Olympics: Testing, sanctioning of components of anti-doping system t
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Tokyo [Japan], July 20 (ANI): In the upcoming Tokyo Olympics, both the testing and the sanctioning components of the anti-doping system will be independent from the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
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Tokyo Olympics: We can defeat COVID-19, but only if everyone plays their p
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Tokyo [Japan], July 20 (ANI): The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is in Tokyo and addressed the International Olympic Committee as athletes gear up for the Tokyo Olympics.
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China threatens to nuke Japan over possible Taiwan intervention
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Beijing [China] July 20 (ANI): The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) aired a video in which it threatened Japan with a nuclear response and "full-scale war" if it interfered in China's handling of Taiwan.
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Feel like we are within touching distance of the dream we have harboured,
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], July 20 (ANI): India men's and women's hockey skippers, Manpreet Singh and Rani Rampal have written an open letter to the fans ahead of the Tokyo Olympics and the duo said that they feel like they are "in touching distance of the dream that they have harboured for the last fiv
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