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Leeroy Betti
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OLYMPICS
Sep 25, 2000
Japan improves record in the pool
SYDNEY -- Japan's women's 400-meter medley relay team wrapped up the Olympic swimming competition Saturday with a bronze medal in a national record time as the U.S. team smashed the world record at the Sydney Olympics on Saturday.
OLYMPICS
Sep 25, 2000
Takahashi wins marathon gold in record time
SYDNEY -- Tiny Naoko Takahashi blitzed a big marathon field Sunday to win Japan's first-ever Olympic gold medal in women's athletics in a new Olympic best time.
OLYMPICS
Sep 24, 2000
Japanese swimmers claim bronze in 400m medley
SYDNEY -- Japan's women's 400-meter medley relay team won bronze in a new national record time as the U.S. team smashed the world record in the event on the last day of the swimming competition at the Sydney Olympics on Saturday.
OLYMPICS
Sep 23, 2000
Shinohara loses in controversy
SYDNEY -- Was he robbed? Reigning world champion Shinichi Shinohara thought so, standing on the mat in protest at the judge's decision to award defending Olympic champion David Douillet a "yuko" that won him the Olympic gold medal in the over-100-kg class at the Sydney Exhibition Center on Friday night.
OLYMPICS
Sep 23, 2000
Nakao claims bronze in 200-meter backstroke
SYDNEY -- Miki Nakao claimed a bronze medal for Japan in the women's 200-meter backstroke final at the Sydney Aquatic Center on Friday night, while the women's 4x100 medley relay team swam their way into contention for a medal in Saturday's final.
OLYMPICS
Sep 22, 2000
Atlanta ghosts topple fourth world champ
The ghost of Atlanta returned to haunt world champion Noriko Anno at the Sydney Olympics on Thursday as she made a surprise exit from the women's under-78 kg competition.
OLYMPICS
Sep 22, 2000
Inoue takes 100-kg gold
SYDNEY -- The closest thing to Kosei Inoue's heart as he took to the winner's podium Thursday night was not that he had won Olympic gold but that he had fulfilled his mother's dying wish.
OLYMPICS
Sep 21, 2000
Yoshida's hopes for judo gold shattered
Staff writer
OLYMPICS
Sep 20, 2000
Takimoto scores more judo gold for Japan
SYDNEY -- Makoto Takimoto won Japan's third gold medal of the Sydney Games on Tuesday night with two of the best bouts of the Olympic tournament so far.
OLYMPICS
Sep 19, 2000
No gold for Mai-chan
SYDNEY -- Mai Nakamura led the field until the last two strokes of the pool but had to settle for silver as she claimed Japan's second medal in swimming at the Sydney Olympics in the women's 100-meter backstroke Monday.
OLYMPICS
Sep 18, 2000
Japan's Narazaki denied gold
SYDNEY -- Japan's dream start on the Olympic judo mat stumbled Sunday night when world champion Noriko Narazaki had to settle for the under-52 kg silver in a tightly fought rematch with the woman she defeated to become world champion last year.
OLYMPICS
Sep 16, 2000
Japan hoping to kickstart Games with first-day gold
SYDNEY -- The first day of competition may be crucial to Japan's prospects at the Sydney Olympics. Japan has three gold medal prospects competing Saturday: judoka Ryoko Tamura and Tadahiro Nomura, and swimmer Yasuko Tajima.
OLYMPICS
Sep 16, 2000
Olympic rings and the color of money
Just about everybody in the world knows it is happening, but exactly what is it?
OLYMPICS
Sep 16, 2000
Fire and glory open 2000 Olympics
SYDNEY-- Carrying the hopes of her nation both in sport and racial reconciliation, 400-meter world champion Cathy Freeman ran a guard of honor the length of the stadium before lowering the Olympic torch into a pool of water Friday to light a submerged cauldron to open the biggest and last Olympic Games of the 20th century.
OLYMPICS
Sep 15, 2000
Get me to the Games on time!
SYDNEY -- Transport bungles of Olympic proportions, Part One: Aussies don't know how to run a train service.
OLYMPICS
Sep 14, 2000
Smile, take a bath and visualize the gold
SYDNEY -- Yasuko Tajima said she was swimming faster than ever in the 400-meter individual medley relay, Masami Tanaka staked her claim on gold and Takashi Yamamoto might just smile his way into the medals. But head coach Koji Ueno seemed to be hanging on, white-knuckled, to the hope that new training methods will erase the prospect of Japan bombing once again in the Olympic pool in Sydney. "We've reflected on the past national team, so we've decided to provide a very happy environment for them (the swimmers) to train in -- a comfortable place so the swimmers can have good composure, because each swimmer has different demands," Ueno told reporters Wednesday at a press conference that, at times, seemed more like a group therapy session than the unveiling of a team aiming to stamp its mark as a force in international swimming. The comments of 200-meter butterfly swimmer Takashi Yamamoto, an Atlanta finalist, are a case in point. "I've been doing mental training at university, by relaxing and by smiling in the training," he said. "So, at the meets I am quite relaxed."
OLYMPICS
Sep 14, 2000
Japan boss hoping for eight gold medals
SYDNEY -- Japan's Olympic officials have set the nation's athletes a goal of bringing home five gold medals and a total of 15 medals from the Sydney Olympics.
OLYMPICS
Sep 13, 2000
'The Greatest Show on Earth' hits Sydney
The "Greatest Show on Earth" is back and badly in need of an image makeover.
OLYMPICS
Aug 31, 2000
Osaka bid's next test in May
Osaka's hosting of the East Asian Games next May will be a key test in its uphill battle to win the right to stage the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, Japan Olympic Committee chairman Yushiro Yagi said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Jul 27, 2000
Rail hazards threaten Sydney Games
Michael Knight, president of the Sydney Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games, on Wednesday said he could not rule out major accidents on Sydney's rail network during the Games, as investigations began into a fire and a collision on Sydney's disaster-prone rail network Tuesday night.
Japan says Biden's description of nation as xenophobic is 'unfortunate'
The National Diet building in Tokyo
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
The 'outsiders' creating some of Japan's greenest spaces
Rows of irises resemble a rice field at the Peter Walker-designed Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.
Japan drops to 70th in press freedom rankings
A businessman reads a newspaper outside a train station in Tokyo.
Traders spooked by intervention risk trim record yen shorts
Traders edged back from record bets on yen weakness this past week, in a period that included a likely bout of intervention by Japan to prop up the currency.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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