Year: 2021
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‘Heartbroken’: Paralympian Explains Why She Withdrew From Tokyo 2020 | CNN
Becca Meyers, a deaf and blind American swimmer, has withdrawn from the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games after she said the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) denied her request to bring her mother to serve as her Personal Care Assistant. She speaks with CNN’s Brianna Keilar.
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Olympic COVID-19 Cases Surge 155% In One Week as Opening Ceremony Nears | ABC News
Cases are rising as the action begins. The U.S. women’s soccer team snapped its 44-game win streak with a loss to Sweden.
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Olympic Surfing: Explained | NBC Bay Area
For the first time ever, surfing will be a part of the Olympic games. Here’s everything you need to know about surfing’s debut at the Tokyo Olympics.
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Russian Swimmer Borodin Tests Positive for COVID-19 and Will Miss Tokyo Olympics
Russia’s European swimming champion Ilya Borodin will skip the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, which kick off this week after his COVID-19 test returned a positive result, a senior official with the All-Russian Swimming Federation told TASS on Wednesday. “Borodin’s PCR [polymerase chain reaction] test returned a positive result [for COVID-19],” All-Russian Swimming Federation…
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Olympics: Spanish Swimmer Had to Leave Breastfeeding Son at Home
Spanish synchronised swimmer Ona Carbonell has said she is disappointed and disillusioned that she cannot take her breastfeeding son with her to the Olympics, because her family would be subject to such drastic restrictions in Japan. Read Reuters
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Brisbane elected host of Olympic Games and Paralympic Games 2032
Brisbane, Australia, will host the Games of the XXXV Olympiad in 2032 after being elected at the 138th IOC Session on Wednesday (21 July) in Tokyo, Japan. The Session, operating under strict coronavirus protocols, accepted the proposal of the IOC Executive Board, made on 11 June, that Brisbane should host the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games in 2032. IOC President…
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Katie Ledecky | Tokyo 2020 Olympic Profile | Yahoo! Sports
Team USA swimmer Katie Ledecky shares how she has attacked training throughout her run to the last three Olympic Games and explains which races she plans to compete in Tokyo.
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Lifeguard Honored With Civilian Award for Saving Swimmer at Calf Pasture Beach | News 12
Lifeguard Morgan Saunders, 17, had only been on the job for about a year when she made the save at the beach in late June.
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Olympic Village Tour! | Tom Daley Vlogs
If you ever wanted to see inside the Olympic village…here you go! I wanted to show you a quick overview of how awesome the Olympic village environment is and how much of a great job Team GB does to make us feel at home!