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Paris 2024: In a first, closing ceremony of Olympic Games features celebra
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], August 8 (ANI): For the first time ever, the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games featured "live and spectacular" celebrations from the next host city of the mega sporting event on Sunday.
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'United By Emotion': Athletes wave goodbye as Tokyo Olympics ends
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], August 8 (ANI): At the Closing Ceremony of Tokyo Olympics, wrestler Bajrang Punia on Sunday entered the stadium holding aloft India's flag and joined flag-bearers of other national Olympic contingents to mark the end of 17-days of the Games, which saw athletes from over 200 co
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EU decries "reckles" attack on Mercer street vessel in Gulf of Oman
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], August 8 (ANI/Sputnik): The European Union denounces "in the strongest terms" the recent attack on the Japanese-owned Mercer Street oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman that left two crew members dead, saying "such reckless and unilateral actions" cannot be justified, the EU's
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Tokyo Olympics: 'Feeling overwhelmed' says coach Klaus Bartonietz after Ne
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Tokyo [Japan], August 8 (ANI): Klaus Bartonietz, the biomechanical expert who trained Olympic gold medal-winning Neeraj Chopra on Sunday said he felt overwhelmed as the javelin thrower became the first from India to bag the top spot in track and field at Tokyo.
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Tokyo registers over 4,000 COVID-19 cases
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Tokyo [Japan], August 8 (ANI/Sputnik): The Japanese capital currently hosting the last Olympic day has lodged over 4,000 COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours -- a new single-day record for Sunday when fewer tests are usually done than on other days, the city administration said.
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Wish you had lived at least till Tokyo Olympics, says Rijiju after Neeraj
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Tokyo [Japan], August 8 (ANI): Union Minister of Law and Justice Kiren Rijiju remembered sprint legend Milkha Singh after India won its first gold in athletics through Neeraj Chopra in Javelin throw at the Tokyo Olympics.
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Tokyo Olympics: Still processing this feeling, says Neeraj Chopra after wi
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Tokyo [Japan], August 8 (ANI): Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra on Sunday said that he is still processing the feeling of winning gold for India at the ongoing Tokyo Olympics.
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Tokyo Olympics: USA wins seventh straight women's basketball gold
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Tokyo [Japan], August 8 (ANI): Team USA's women's basketball team have extended their gold-winning run to seven straight Olympic Games after a 90-75 win over Japan in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics here at Saitama Super Arena on Sunday.
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Successful Tokyo Olympics gave confidence to entire world, says IOC Presid
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Tokyo [Japan], August 8 (ANI): Thomas Bach, the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Sunday said that the Tokyo Games were held successfully and it gave hope to the entire world.
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Nearly 29,000 people ordered to evacuate in Japan as typhoon Mirinae looms
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], August 8 (ANI/Sputnik): Nearly 29,000 people in the Japanese prefecture of Chiba near Tokyo have received evacuation orders due to typhoon Mirinae approaching the country's eastern coast, national media reported on Sunday.
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Tokyo Olympics: Jason Kenny becomes first Great Britain athlete to win 7 g
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Shizuoka [Japan], August 8 (ANI): Jason Kenny became the first Great Britain athlete to win seven Olympic gold medals after storming onto the podium in the men's Keirin final, 1/6th place of the track cycling on day sixteen of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games here at Izu Velodrome on Sunday.
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Doctors advised me to take rest but I preferred to train for Olympics, say
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Tokyo [Japan], August 8 (ANI): Bajrang Punia stated that no one gets more disappointed than an athlete after losing a game. The Indian wrestler bagged bronze through repechage in the men's freestyle 65kg category.
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