Tag: Tokyo 2020
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Deadly heat a major concern for Tokyo Games
With Tokyo’s summer heat and unpredictable weather likely to prove a severe headache during the 2020 Olympics, sports bodies are using every resource at their disposal to prepare athletes and spectators for extreme conditions. Several organizations have turned to a weather forecasting company to feed them firsthand meteorological data in a bid to understand what…
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2020 Olympics 1 Year Out: How Tokyo Is Prepping For Summer Games | TODAY
The one-year countdown to the 2020 Summer Olympics begins! As Tokyo gears up to host the games, NBC’s Keir Simmons takes us around the amazing venues in Japan’s capital city.
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Tickets to 2020 Tokyo Olympics in short supply
Want tickets for next year’s Tokyo Olympics? Prepare to be let down. Millions were disappointed starting Thursday when applicants in a ticket lottery — for Japan residents only — began learning if they landed tickets. The answer is going to be overwhelmingly no. The same will be true for residents outside Japan, who could experience…
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Meet the USA artistic swim team targeting Tokyo 2020 | Water Figures
What does it take to break 12 years of disappointment? Olympic Channel got an exclusive invite to go behind the scenes with the U.S. artistic swimming team to find out.
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Team USA Artistic Swimming gets automated in effort to make it to Tokyo | Reaching for Tokyo 2020
The USA team haven’t competed at the Olympics since 2008. Now they’ve asked for help from of famous robot dancer Chadd Smith (aka Madd Chadd), with the aim of developing a synchronised routine to surprise at the World Champs and book a place at Tokyo 2020.
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Japan Olympics Minister Yoshitaka Sakurada resigns over comments
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe accepted the resignation of Olympics Minister Yoshitaka Sakurada on Wednesday. “Minister Sakurada offered to resign as he made comments that hurt the feelings of those in the disaster-affected areas,” Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters. In relation to Japan’s recovery from the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear power plant meltdown which left thousands…
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Probe of IOC’s Takeda hangs over Tokyo Olympics
A month ago, Tsunekazu Takeda was warmly applauded by 1,400 Olympic dignitaries as he spoke alongside International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach in Tokyo. A month later, the powerful IOC member and head of the Japanese Olympic Committee is fighting a corruption investigation, suspected by French investigators of authorizing the payment of bribes to help…
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Penny Oleksiak, Kylie Masse, And Swimming Canada At Tokyo 2020 | Mark Tewksbury
Canada’s swim team will go into Tokyo 2020 in a very different position then they went into Rio 2016 with. They now have world champions like Kylie Masse, Olympic champions like Penny Oleksiak, and names that carry real weight in the swimming world like Taylor Ruck. Mark Tewksbury explains the significance of the past four…
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Tokyo 2020 Announces Aquatics Schedule
Following an agreement with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Swimming Federation (FINA), the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) announced today the competition schedule by session and the order of events for all of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic aquatics events. Swimming events will be held for nine days commencing…