Weightlifter in Tokyo Olympics Protests Potential Inclusion of Transgender Competitor As “Unfair” And “Like A Bad Joke”

World Skate announced the official list of skateboarders that will participate in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Skateboarding will make its historic Olympic debut in a skatepark especially built for the occasion in the heart of the Japanese cap(ITA)l. After a long qualification process, 40 male and 40 female skaters...

Olympic Committee officials are moving forward with plans for the Tokyo games despite concerns from Japan’s government and citizens, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) told the Wall Street Journal that “it has become clearer than ever that these Games will be safe for everyone...

Despite a recent Covid spike Japan is going ahead with its plans, involving a veritable Olympic cauldron for competitors. LONDON, 9 June, 2021 − Athletes, spectators and the many thousands of officials and members of the media attending the events due to start in late July might be concerned about Covid. But they will also have to deal with the impacts of climate change, and the Olympic cauldron that is heating up to receive them.

TOKYO (Reuters) - As the clock ticks down to the opening of the Tokyo Olympics on July 23, Japan is preparing to host a Games like no other in history, as it grapples with the coronavirus pandemic. Although the global situation has improved from a year ago, when the Games...

Back in 2013, Tokyo's big win to secure the Olympic Games in only the second round of voting — it took out Istanbul 60-36 — rested largely in its insistence to the IOC that as a host, it was a "safe pair of hands," something that past IOC president Jacques Rogge, a surgeon, said he found appealing.

The International Olympic Committee is charging ahead toward this summer’s games in Tokyo. This week, IOC President Thomas Bach announced the Refugee Olympic Team, which consists of 29 athletes competing across 12 sports from 11 countries. In Tokyo, they’ll march together under the Olympic flag. But each athlete has a distinct story. The World's Bianca Hillier reports.

WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealand’s Sports Minister Grant Robertson said on Thursday that inclusion should be the starting point for any discussion about the participation of transgender people in the sex class of their choice. Robertson was responding to an open letter from 43 former Olympic champions and athletes calling...

Six weeks before the Opening Ceremony, organizers of the Tokyo Olympic Games are under fire for forging ahead amid a COVID surge. Hiroshi Mikitani, the founder and CEO of Rakuten and a prominent Japanese business leader, denounced the event as “a suicide mission” in May. The chairman of Japan Doctors Union labeled the Games as the most “dangerous gathering of people” since the COVID pandemic emerged. More than 400,000 people have signed a petition calling on Japan’s Prime Minister to cancel the games.

Weightlifter Elreen Ando has qualified for the Tokyo Olympics after making the cut via the Absolute Continental Ranking of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) released on Saturday morning. Ando, the 12th-ranked weightlifter in the women's -64 kg division, was able to accumulate 2634.9334 points to be the highest ranked Asian...

Mirabai Chanu will be the only Indian weightlifter to participate in the Tokyo Olympics, according to the ranking list released by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) on Saturday. The 26-year-old is ranked second, with 4133,6172 points in the 49kg, behind China’s Hou Zhihui, who has 4926,4422 points. The Tokyo Olympic...

Have you spent the past year and a half climbing the walls at home? Well, then the Tokyo games will have something great for you this summer -- sport climbing.

The Games were meant to be a moment of national celebration but, with coronavirus cases rising in Japan, this summer’s postponed Olympics are the subject of recrimination and protest. Justin McCurry, the Guardian’s Tokyo correspondent, tells Anushka Asthana why the movement to cancel the Games is facing an uphill battle...

After a yearlong delay, the Tokyo Summer Olympics are just six weeks away — despite concerns about whether it is safe to bring thousands of international athletes and crowds together in the middle of a pandemic. Medical professionals have warned that they may not be able to handle another surge...

It was a blow to most Olympic athletes when they found out the pandemic postponed the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. But Sierra Castleberry of Crowley was in the minority. “I called my mom and was telling her that I don’t know if this is true, but I need to find out! The Olympics is postponed. That means I’m in. I can do this,” Castleberry said.

With five weeks to go for the opening ceremony, a growing chorus in Japan is calling for the Games to be postponed or cancelled. After being canceled due to COVID-19 last year, the Olympic Games are set to begin in Tokyo in five weeks’ time. But as the clock turns for the opening ceremony, many in Japan continue to question the decision to hold the Games and risk another wave of infections that could derail the country’s fragile economic recovery. is.

(Reuters) – Romania cannot participate in the weightlifting event at the Tokyo Olympics after the country’s governing body (FRH) was given a one-year ban by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) for past doping cases on Thursday. The ban was issued for five anti-doping violations made by Romanian athletes in 2012.

The countdown has begun! The world’s biggest sporting extravaganza is around the corner. The Olympic Games are just a hundred days away, and athletes are bracing themselves to give their best. We look forward with a lot of excitement to those days of non-stop action as athletes from around the...

Simone Manuel, the first Black woman to win an individual swimming gold medal at the Olympics, won't get a chance to defend that historic medal in Tokyo. Manuel, one of stars of Team USA in 2016, failed to make the 100-meter freestyle finals at U.S. Olympic trials in Omaha on Thursday night, five years after winning the event in Rio de Janeiro.