Tag Archives: Tokyo

📌  🇺🇬 Uganda marathon team *⃣ Fred Musobo *⃣ Stephen Kiprotich *⃣ Felix Chemonges Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT, URN & XINHUA | Uganda Athletics Federation (UAF) has selected Stephen Kiprotich as one of three marathoners to represent the country in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics that start July 23, 2021. With up …

✳ Two COVID-19 tests before flight to Japan ✳ Daily tests ✳ Only follow activities outlined in activity plan ✳ Social-distance with outsiders, 1 meter ✳ Use Games vehicles only ✳ Eat only in locations where COVID-19 countermeasures in place ✳ All other Games participants tested daily for three days …

📌 Tokyo Olympics medal projections (Gold, Silver, Bronze)                                 G      S       B *⃣ Kenya                 6       5       4 *⃣ Ethiopia             1       3       3 *⃣ Ivory Coast        0       2       1 *⃣ Egypt                 0       1       2 *⃣ …

IOC congratulates Tokyo 2020 as Olympic Torch Relay gets underway in Japan Tokyo, Japan | THE INDEPENDENT & IOC MEDIA | If there was a sign the world was waiting for to confirm the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympics will finally take place, it is the start of the Olympic Torch Relay. …

Tokyo, Japan | THE INDEPENDENT | The International Boxing Association (AIBA) has criticised the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for cancelling the final boxing qualifier for Tokyo 2020. Fifty-three quota places had been due to be available at the World Olympic Qualifier in Paris in June, but the IOC Boxing Task …

Tokyo, Japan | XINHUA |  More than 60 percent of the volunteers for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics are “worried or anxious” about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the Games, a survey has found. Japanese state broadcaster NHK said on Friday that Tokyo 2020 organizers conducted the …

Seoul, South Korea | AFP | Seoul threatened to retaliate Friday over what it called Tokyo’s “irrational” plan to quarantine arrivals from South Korea over the coronavirus outbreak, turning the scientific issue into a diplomatic row. The two countries have close economic ties and are both major US allies, democracies and …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s local Olympics organizing committee plans to send close to 30 competitors in five disciplines to Tokyo 2020. Together with officials, Uganda’s delegation is expected to be 50, and would be the largest ever entry for Uganda since it first competed at the Melbourne …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Athletics Federation –UAF plans to send at least 30 athletes to the 2020 Olympics. The Olympics will start on 24th July to 9th August in Tokyo, Japan. Participating teams will compete in 50 disciplines including athletics. Uganda usually fields players in mainly weightlifting, …

Tokyo, Japan | AFP | President Donald Trump will be ringside Sunday for Tokyo’s big sumo tournament, but if he hopes his longtime love of US-style professional wrestling will give him special insight into the action, he better think again. Both sumo and the WWE involve enormous men wearing very little …