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IOC Session: Pandemic will end when world chooses to end it, says WHO DG
Updated : 4 years, 11 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, 11 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
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
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
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
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, 11 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, 11 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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Tokyo Olympics: Games-related Covid-19 infections rise to 67
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], July 20 (ANI): Three days out from the opening ceremony of the upcoming Tokyo Olympics, the total Games-related Covid-19 infections have risen to 67. Organisers of the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday confirmed that a foreign athlete has tested positive for Covid-19 at the Games Vill
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Tokyo Olympics: With the games we're committing an act of faith in the fut
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], July 20 (ANI): With three days to go for the Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach examined the distant and not so distant past to draw lessons and hope for brighter times.
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Tokyo Olympics: Foreign athlete, 8 others test positive for Covid-19
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Tokyo [Japan], July 20 (ANI): Organisers of the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday confirmed that a foreign athlete has tested positive for Covid-19 at the Games Athletes' Village.
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Tokyo Olympics: Mary Kom, Pooja Rani along with boxing contingent begin tr
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Tokyo [Japan], July 20 (ANI): Mary Kom and Pooja Rani along with the entire boxing contingent began their training in Tokyo ahead of the upcoming Olympics.
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Tokyo: Protestors demonstrate against human rights abuses by China, calls
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], July 19 (ANI): A group of protestors on Monday including Tibetans, Uyghurs, Mongolians, and human rights defenders from Hong Kong, Japan and China demonstrated against the human rights abuses by Beijing and called upon the world community to boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Oly
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Tokyo Games: International Olympic Committee accepts Japanese musician Oya
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], July 19 (ANI): International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Monday said Japanese musician Keigo Oyamada's actions were "absolutely unacceptable".
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