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Tokyo 2020: Chilean taekwondo athlete first to withdraw from Olympics afte
Updated : 4 years, 8 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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Tokyo 2020 chief does not rule out cancellation of Games amid COVID-19 sca
Updated : 4 years, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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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Biden announces presidential delegation to Tokyo Olympics, names US Fir
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 21 (ANI): US President Joe Biden announced that First Lady Jill Biden will lead the presidential delegation to the Tokyo Olympics, informed the White House on Tuesday.
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Tokyo Olympics: Testing, sanctioning of components of anti-doping system t
Updated : 4 years, 8 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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Let us win and let the others lose: Tendulkar's message to Indian athletic
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 20 (ANI): Little Maestro Sachin Tendulkar on Tuesday exhorted the Indian athletics contingent heading to the Olympic Games in Tokyo to chase their dreams of winning medals for the country.
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Tokyo Olympics: It's overwhelming and surreal, want Fouaad to live in the
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 20 (ANI): Former Indian equestrian Imtiaz Anees wants Fouaad Mirza to "live in the moment" when he takes the field in the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. Fouaad is the first Indian equestrian to make the Olympic cut in 20 years, with the last representative from the natio
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Tokyo Olympics: Best chance for Indian hockey team to bag medal, says Vire
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 20 (ANI): Former India hockey skipper Viren Rasquinha feels the current team has the "best chance" to bring home an Olympic medal. The Indian hockey team might have dominated the sport in the 20th century, but the Asian side has not claimed a medal in the Summer Ol
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Tokyo Olympics: Fouaad Mirza picks Seigneur Medicott over Dajara 4 for sho
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], July 20 (ANI): Just three days before the start of the upcoming Tokyo Olympics, India equestrian Fouaad Mirza has decided to change his horse and he will now go with Seigneur Medicott in the Games.
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