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Naomi Osaka Lit The Olympic Cauldron At The Opening Ceremony In Tokyo And It Was Truly Iconic
Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka lit the Olympic cauldron at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Games on Friday July 23.
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Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka lit the Olympic cauldron at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Games on Friday July 23.
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Kentaro Kobayashi, the director of the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony, has been fired over a joke he made about the Holocaust during a comedy set he did in 1998.
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After Great Britain’s women’s soccer team took a knee before its Olympics match, women’s soccer teams from around the world have been participating in the protest movement.
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The Norwegian women’s handball team have been fined 150 euros each for wearing shorts instead of the required bikini bottoms at a match.
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Olivia Breen, a two-time Paralympic champion from Wales, has spoken out after an official said the sprint brief she wore to a long jump competition were “too short and inappropriate.”
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Germany’s Olympic soccer team walked off the pitch during a friendly match against Honduras after a Black German player was allegedly racially abused.
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Ugandan weightlifter Julius Ssekitoleko has disappeared in Japan ahead of the Olympics, leaving only a note saying he didn’t want to go back to Uganda as life was too difficult there.
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A mural of England soccer player Marcus Rashford in Manchester that was defaced with racist graffiti in the aftermath of the team’s loss to Italy at the Euro 2020 finals has been covered in hundreds of messages of support, solidarity and love.
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In the lead up and aftermath of England’s loss to Italy in the Euro 2020 final match, England football fans trashed parts of London and Black England players Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho, and Bukayo Saka, who failed to score the penalty kick, became targets of racist abuse on social media.
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Fans have been banned from the most events at the Tokyo Olympic Games after Japan declared a state of emergency that will run throughout the duration of the games following a surge in COVID-19 cases and the threat of the highly contagious Delta variant.
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After the UEFA rejected a request by Munich to illuminate its stadium in rainbow colors, soccer fans filled the stadium with rainbow flags during the match between Germany and Hungary to protest Hungary’s new anti-LGBT law.
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New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard will become the first transgender athlete to compete in the Olympics after officials on Monday selected her to be part of the country’s national team for the Tokyo Games.