Olympic flame to be shown for one month at Fukushima's J-Village
The flame for the postponed Tokyo Games was put on public display Thursday at a soccer training center in Fukushima Prefecture that served as a frontline base in the battle against the 2011 nuclear disaster. The J-Village site was to have been the grand starting ...
Beijing 2022 organizers to assess impact of postponing Tokyo Games
Organizers of the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing say they will conduct a "detailed assessment” of the impact the decision to postpone the Tokyo Olympics to next year will have on their own plans. In a statement carried by the official Xinhua News Agency, Beijing ...
The fifth World Baseball Classic, scheduled to be held in March of 2021, is now under threat from the coronavirus pandemic, Nippon Professional Baseball's secretary general Atsushi Ihara said Thursday. The tournament, organized jointly by Major League Baseball and its players union, has been held ...
Simone Biles admits Olympic postponement was 'a lot to take mentally'
There's a large whiteboard calendar on a wall inside the massive gym owned by Simone Biles' family that outlines every major gymnastics event of the year, the 2020 Olympics included. When the Tokyo Games were officially postponed to the summer of 2021 due to the ...
Tokyo 2020 organizers left the Olympic flame in the hands of Fukushima Prefecture on Wednesday, where it will be on display in a lantern for the next month after the games were postponed for a year due to the coronavirus outbreak. The handover took place ...
Fukuoka-hosted aquatics world championships look for new dates after Tokyo 2020 postponement
After new dates were announced for the Tokyo Olympics, swimming’s governing body is going back to the drawing board to figure out when to hold its next world championships. The biannual aquatics event was scheduled for Fukuoka from July 16-Aug. 1, 2021. But on Monday, ...
Coronavirus question mark still hangs over Tokyo Olympics in 2021
The lingering problem is whether the global health crisis will be under control by then.
Tsunami-hit Miyagi city waits patiently for Olympics to showcase revival
Every Sunday morning, a decades-old market in Miyagi Prefecture is crowded with local residents and tourists making their way down narrow aisles and checking out a variety of fresh seafood. The bustling market in the Yuriage district of Natori has become part of the small ...
Olympic sporting bodies voted unanimously for new start dates
Despite some early differences of opinion, the 33 sports that make up the Summer Olympic program voted unanimously Monday to delay the Tokyo Games by a full year. Moments later, local organizers and the International Olympic Committee made it official. "We were the last to express ...
Speculation rife in Japan of a post-pandemic, pre-Olympic poll
Now that the Tokyo Olympics have been postponed to next year, speculation is growing that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will call a snap election before his tenure runs out in fall 2021. Sources familiar with Abe's thinking said he intends to closely watch how the ...
WHO to work toward success of Tokyo Olympics, Tedros tells Abe
The head of the World Health Organization told Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday that he wants to make preparations with Japan for the "success" of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. Speaking by phone, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed his support for Japan's agreement ...
The 2021 Olympic Games will be the greatest ever
The 2021 Olympic Games should be a celebration of a world that overcomes petty nationalisms, rather than one that reinforces them.
