Tag: Tokyo
“Street Fighter V” and “Rocket League” tournaments will take place on the sidelines of the Tokyo Olympics
Part of “Street Fighter V”, in New York, September 17, 2017. NOAH K. MURRAY / USA TODAY SPORTS After more than a year of silence, the International Olympic Committee (IOC)…
First trans athlete in Tokyo: the weightlifter who divides the Olympics
Thursday, May 06, 2021 First trans athlete in Tokyo The weightlifter who divides the Olympics Laurel Hubbard wants to make history: She will be the first transgender athlete to take…
how the athletes prepare for the Tokyo heat
Ten thousand steps and more. The Covid, but also very high temperatures with high humidity. These are the constraints weighing on the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, already postponed for a…
in Japan, new state of emergency three months from the Tokyo Olympics
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on April 23 in Tokyo. EUGENE HOSHIKO / AFP The Japanese government declared on Friday April 23 a new state of emergency in Tokyo and…
Persistent doubts about hosting the Tokyo Olympics
Azusa Iwashimizu (foreground right), a member of the Japanese women’s football team, passes the Olympic torch to a high school student on March 25, 2021 in Naraha, Fukushima prefecture. PHILIP…
“Washington expects more from Tokyo than statements of principle on ‘common values'”
Tribune. Yoshihide Suga meets with President Biden on Friday April 16. Sign of a particular interest, the Japanese Prime Minister is the first head of state or government to travel…
On D-100 of the Tokyo Games, the vaccination of French athletes is urgent
In the streets of Tokyo, in February 2021. EUGENE HOSHIKO / AP With less than a hundred days before the opening of the Tokyo Olympics (July 23 to August 8),…
Pyongyang launches two projectiles in the Sea of Japan, “ballistic missiles” according to Tokyo
Kim Jong-un supervising a missile fire in North Korea, August 17, 2019. – AFP New shots in North Korea. Pyongyang launched two missiles into the Sea of Japan on Thursday.…
Olympic hope from El Salvador: Surfer dies after being struck by lightning
Monday March 22, 2021 Olympic hope from El Salvador Surfer dies after being struck by lightning She had been on the surfboard since she was nine and the next big…
Tokyo Olympics organizing committee chair resigns after sexist comments
Yoshiro Mori, chairman of the Tokyo Olympic Games Organizing Committee, has just resigned after making humiliating comments about his female colleagues. This reveals a lingering sexism within Japanese sport. Tokyo…
The stock exchange day: Tokyo stock exchange in the minus – waiting for the Fed
The Tokyo Stock Exchange has initially shown weaker. Analysts referred to the Dispute in the US Congress about another Aid package in the coronavirus crisiswho had already affected Wall Street.…