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Bad Call: Japan's Suga Was Too Optimistic About The Olympics

In the leadup to the Games, Tokyo had already entered its fifth wave.

Let Olympics win over Covid-19

HISTORICALLY, the Japanese love the Olympics, but they haven’t had the best luck with them. In the 1930s, Japan successfully made a bid to host the Summer Olympics in 1940, four years after Nazi Germany’s Berlin Olympics, but they had to give up the great enterprise because of World War II. In 1964, two decades after the war ended, they finally realised the ambition.

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Another Tokyo Olympic official sacked

Three new cases of Covid-19 among Olympic athletes

Seiko Hashimoto, President of Tokyo Olympic Organising Committee in Tokyo 9 July. Photo: Yomiuri Two athletes from the same country and competing in the same sport staying in the village in the Harumi waterfront district tested positive for the virus, organisers said without providing further details. Organisers today reported 10 new cases connected to the Olympics, including a third athlete who was not staying in the village, down from 15 new cases a day earlier. An International Olympic Committee member from South Korea tested positive for the coronavirus on landing in Tokyo. Ryu Seung-min, a former Olympic athlete, is vaccinated, reflecting the infection risk even from vaccinated attendees.

The Tokyo Olympics are supposed to be a 'landmark in gender equality' — are the Games really a win for women?

The Tokyo Olympics are supposed to be a 'landmark in gender equality'

16 July 2021 11:19am If you believe the hype from the International Olympic Committee, the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will be a “landmark in gender equality” and the “first gender-balanced games in history”. The Olympics do not have a good track record when it comes to gender equality. At the end of the 19th century, when it was founded, the modern Olympic movement deliberately excluded women. Games patriarch Baron Pierre de Coubertin argued an Olympiad with women would be: “impractical, uninteresting, unaesthetic and improper”. With the postponed 2020 Tokyo Games due to start next Friday, what advances can we celebrate? And what still needs to change?

The Tokyo Olympics are supposed to be a 'landmark in gender equality' — are the Games really a win for women?

Covid concerns raised in Tokyo

Tokyo Olympics: Covid-19 cluster at hotel housing athletes