Plea For Asylum From Belarusian Sprinter

🔴A Belarusian sprinter who stayed in Tokyo after refusing a forced expulsion by her team's officials has asked the International Olympic Committee for help

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The Robo Ball Drop

Wait for the ball drop... 😂

A #Tokyo2020 delivery! #bbcolympics

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The Tokyo 2020 Opening Ceremony Live

Follow the opening ceremony live via this link.

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Typhoon Warning

Forecasters from the Joint Typhoon Warning Centre have given the Tokyo area a "medium chance" for "potential tropical development" next week.

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Show Director of Olympics Opening Ceremony Dismissed

The show director of the Olympics opening ceremony has been dismissed, one day before the event is due to be held.

Footage of Kentaro Kobayashi from the 1990s recently emerged in which he appears to be making jokes about the Holocaust.

Japan's Olympic chief Seiko Hashimoto said the video ridiculed "painful facts of history".

All in all things are not going well for Tokyo 2020.

 

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The Covid Games - All a Bit Naff!

Olympic protests in Hiroshima & Tokyo. A Nigerian athlete hospitalised for Covid-19. An unprecedented ban on spectators. And now, winning athletes will have to put on their own medals. The bizarre & surreal #Tokyo2020 games are just one week away... @EarlyStart @PoloSandovalCNN pic.twitter.com/NFIf58N7Nc

— Will Ripley (@willripleyCNN) July 16, 2021

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Japan Declares State of Emergency in Tokyo During Olympics

Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced the fourth state of emergency in the host city of Tokyo and surrounding prefectures to curb a rise in COVID-19 infections. 

Under the new restrictions, which will start on July 12 and run until August 22, bars and restaurants will be asked to suspend alcohol sales and workers will be asked to stay at home if possible. 

A decision will soon be made on whether spectators will be allowed at Olympic venues.

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Tokyo Olympics Covid Rules Updated

Japan's government on Thursday approved lifting Tokyo's virus emergency just over a month before the Olympics, but set new restrictions that could sharply limit fans at Games events.

The state of emergency in place in Tokyo began in late April and largely limits bar and restaurant opening hours and bans them from selling alcohol.

What this will mean for the Olympics is: 

1. The measures will slightly relax the rules on alcohol, allowing sales until 7:00 pm, but still asks restaurants and bars to shut at 8:00 pm.
2. With just five weeks until the pandemic-postponed Games open, Tokyo is likely to maintain strict limits on the number of spectators allowed at large events.
3. The current state of emergency allows only 5,000 people or 50 percent of venue capacity, whichever is smaller. And on Wednesday, the government approved an upper limit of 10,000 spectators for areas not under any restrictions. Those rules are likely to guide Olympic organisers when they decide in the coming days how many domestic fans, if any, will be allowed to attend.
   
4. Overseas fans have already been banned from the Games for the first time, and organisers said they would wait to rule on domestic spectators until the emergency was lifted.
5. Olympic organisers have given up on selling any more tickets and are weighing a lottery system to determine which ticketholders will be able to attend events, Kyodo news agency reported.
6. Newly updated virus rulebooks released this week warn athletes they could be expelled from the Games if they violate requirements like mask-wearing and daily testing.Organisers say more than 80 percent of athletes will be vaccinated and they will be barred from interacting with the Japanese public.

 

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