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• What happens if (and when) an athlete tests positive at the Olympics? People wearing face masks chat before parting at a train station in Tokyo, Friday, July 9, 2021. The 2020 Summer Olympic Games will play out over the next two weeks in Tokyo. | Hiro Komae, Associated PressAthletes are beginning to arrive in Tokyo, and virus cases are beginning to increase The delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics are infectious — in all the worst ways. Usually, the Olympics brings people together from around the world in an air of excitement. This year,…
• Australia’s Olympic training camp locked down after Covid scare Australia’s Olympic squad has already begun to arrive in Tokyo, but members of the Athletics team were locked down in Cairns (Picture: Getty)Australia’s entire athletics team for the Tokyo Olympics was quarantined in their rooms on Saturday at their pre-Games training camp in Cairns following a Covid-19 scare. An inconclusive test had been returned by an unnamed official who travelled from Melbourne but subsequent tests have so far been negative, the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) confirmed on Sunday. Athletes have…
• First resident of Olympic Village tests positive for COVID An employee checks the body temperature of a man during press preview of the Village Plaza as part of the Olympic and Paralympic Village media tour on June 20, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. | Takashi Aoyama/Getty ImagesOfficials said it was not an athlete with the the Games opening in just under a week in Tokyo. TOKYO — The first resident of the Olympic Village has tested positive for COVID-19, Tokyo Olympic organizers said on Saturday. Officials said it was not…
• Top Olympic sponsor Toyota pulls Games-related TV ads Toyota won’t be airing any Olympic-themed advertisements on Japanese television during the Tokyo Games despite being one of the IOC’s top corporate sponsors. The extraordinary decision by the country’s top automaker underlines how polarizing the Games have become in Japan as COVID-19 infections rise ahead of Friday’s opening ceremony. “There are many issues with these Games that are proving difficult to be understood,” Toyota Chief Communications Officer Jun Nagata told reporters Monday. Chief Executive Akio Toyoda, the company founder’s grandson,…
• First positive COVID tests for athletes in Olympic Village National banners hang from balconies at an athlete’s village Sunday as Tokyo prepares for the 2020 Summer Olympics. The pandemic-delayed games open July 23 without spectators at most venues. | Charlie Riedel/APTwo athletes living in the Tokyo Olympic Village have tested positive for COVID-19, the first to do so with the Games opening Friday. TOKYO — Two athletes living in the Olympic Village have tested positive for COVID-19, the first to do so with the Tokyo Games opening on Friday.…
• IOC president quickly corrects slip up in Olympic pep talk IOC President Thomas Bach appeared in public on Tuesday for the first time since arriving in Tokyo last week with the pandemic-postponed Olympics opening in just 10 days. Bach spent his first three days in isolation at the International Olympic Committee's five-star hotel in central Tokyo, and his movements in Tokyo are limited — like almost everyone entering for the Olympics — for the first 14 days. His first stop was the headquarters of the organizing committee to deliver a…
• How do horses get to the Olympics? The equestrian travel arrangements for Tokyo 50 nations will compete in equestrian events this summer at the Olympic Games (Picture: Getty Images)Tokyo is going to be a long trip for almost everyone competing, or working in another capacity, at the Olympic Games this summer and it is perhaps the lengthy journey that has got people wondering just how the horses involved get there. Clearly there are not too many options for horses to reach the island nation and of the two modes of transport you can…
• The Terminator threatens Ledecky’s bid for Olympic gold record TOKYO >> Tolstoy once said, “Art is a microscope.” So it is fitting that Australia’s 24/7 obsession with global aquatic success is chronicled by the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra with an exhibition titled “Swimming & Australian Identity.” The exhibit details the sport’s hold on Australia from the 1800s through Dawn Fraser’s Olympic glory days in the 1960s to the 21st Century success of Ian Thorpe, known to his countrymen as the “Thorpedo.” Australia’s latest idol, Ariarne Titmus, also comes…
• Tom Cruise fist bumps Lewis Hamilton at F1 as Mission Impossible star continues vibing around the UK Tom Cruise got to say a quick hi to Lewis Hamilton before the race (Picture: Getty)Tom Cruise has popped up at yet another sporting event in the UK, this time heading to the Formula One Grand Prix at Silverstone in Northampton, England. The actor, who has been filming in the country, got to say a quick hello to driver Lewis Hamilton on the grid on Sunday. Wearing a black facemask and jacket with a white T-shirt, he greeted the F1…
• Utah college athletes — past and present — who are Tokyo-bound The Olympic rings installed by the Nippon Bashi bridge in Tokyo are pictured on Thursday, July 15, 2021. Over 11,000 athletes representing 206 nations will compete in the Games in Tokyo, Japan from July 23-August 8, including 15 athletes with Utah college ties. | Hiro Komae, Associated PressOver 11,000 athletes representing 206 nations will compete in the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, from July 23 to Aug. 8, including 15 athletes with Utah college ties The Summer Olympic Games are…