Players from five women's football teams kneeled in support of racial justice Wednesday, the first day it was allowed at the Olympic Games after a ban lasting decades.
Athletes from 7 sports will skip the Olympics' opening ceremony due to their respective competitions on the first day of the 2020 Tokyo Games.
Japanese media reported a Asian black bear was seen by guards on Wednesday at the Fukushima Azuma Baseball Stadium.
Skateboarder Candy Jacobs of the Netherlands and table tennis player Pavel Sirucek of the Czech Republic tested positive and had to leave the Games village to enter a quarantine hotel.
Jaskaran lost 2-6 in the final of the 60kg event against Uzbekistan's Kamronbek Kadamov.
He was accused of using a joke about the Holocaust in his comedy act, including the phrase “Let’s play Holocaust,” in one of his shows.
The deputy chef de mission Prem Verma though clarified that no one has shown symptoms for the virus and there was no positive case.
After a one-year postponement, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will finally start on July 23.
The likes of 10m air pistol shooters Saurabh Chaudhary, Abhishek Verma, Apurvi Chandela and Elavenil Valarivan, who have events on the first competition day, will skip the ceremony.
Japan has recorded about 84,800 infections and more than 15,000 confirmed deaths since the start of the pandemic.
Sharath is slated to play against either Portugal's Tiago Apolónia or Nigeria's Olajide Omotayo in the second round of men's singles.
Ronaldo recently won the Golden Boot at Euro 2020, following his five goals and one assist.
The 23-year-old Amber, ranked No 1 in the world, was due to compete in the women's skeet event.
The COVID-hit Olympics will open on Friday and will go on till August 8 without any spectators.
The likes of 10m air pistol shooters Saurabh Chaudhary, Abhishek Verma, Apurvi and Elavenil have events on the first competition day.
The last time Vinesh Phogat faced a defeat was at the Asian Championship semifinals in February 2020, where she had to settle for a bronze.
As India sends it biggest ever shooting contingent to the quadrennial games, there is hope of not just a couple, but a handful of medals from the sport.
Pullela Gopichand said that PV Sindhu has a chance to better her performance from the last Olympics.
There have been doping scandals at every Olympics in my lifetime and a few before, reaching back to the middle of the 20th century.
An administrative mistake meant that Poland had infringed Olympic rules by overfilling their roster of permitted athletes.
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