TOKYO (AP) — The Tokyo Olympic marathons and race walks, moved last month to the northern city of Sapporo to avoid the capital’s summer heat, are likely to start and finish in the city’s Odori Park. Tokyo organizers met with city prefectural officials on Monday. In a statement, organizers said they are also considering a […]
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Olympic champ Sun Yang faces public hearing in doping case
GENEVA (AP) — One of China’s biggest Olympic stars will undergo a rare public hearing in a doping case on Friday with his 2020 Tokyo Games place at stake. Three-time gold medalist swimmer Sun Yang is facing a World Anti-Doping Agency appeal in Switzerland that seeks to ban him for up to eight years for […]
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One hundred children from Pacific island nations invited to Tokyo Olympics
Japan has yet to decide how many from Palau will be joining the 100 children from Pacific island nations who will be invited to watch the most-anticipated Tokyo Olympics next year. Olympic and Paralympic Minister Shunichi Suzuki, in an interview with the press during his visit in Palau on August 20, said that the organizing […]