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 First Vice President Viktor Avdiyenko disclosed to TASS.
Russia’s 18-year-old swimmer Borodin is the gold medal winner of the 2021 European Championships in the men’s 400-meter medley.
The 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Japan’s capital of Tokyo are being held this year between July 23 and August 8. In March 2020, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided to postpone the 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in Japan for one year due to the spread of COVID-19.
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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.
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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 Thomas Bach did not vote, as per tradition which sees presidents vote only to break a tie. IOC Members in Australia John Coates and James Tomkins were not allowed to vote.
Previously, IOC Future Host Commission submitted a report to the EB on its Targeted Dialogue with Brisbane 2032, which was opened on 24 February.
Brisbane 2032 was the first “Preferred Host” under the IOC’s new approach to host city elections.
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Katie Ledecky | Tokyo 2020 Olympic Profile | Yahoo! Sports
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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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