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A number of concerns and controversies arose leading up to the 2020 Summer Olympics, which took place in Tokyo, Japan. The games were postponed until July 2021 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic . The IOC stated that their Japanese partners and the former prime minister Shinzo Abe "made it very clear" in 2020, "that Japan could not manage a ...
Adolf Hitler arriving at the opening ceremony of the controversial 1936 Berlin Games Jesse Owens on the podium after winning the long jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics In 1931, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) selected the German capital city Berlin as the host city of the 1936 Summer Olympics .
On 1 August 2021, it was reported that Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya was in the process of being repatriated to Belarus from Tokyo, Japan, against her will, and had been removed from competing at the 2020 Summer Olympics, for posting a video on social media that was critical of her coaches.
Yoshiro Mori’s resignation is the latest in a string of incidents. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Concerns and controversies at the 2008 Summer Olympics; ... COVID-19 cases at the 2020 Summer Olympics and 2020 Summer Paralympics;
On January 31, 2020, World Athletics, the governing body for professional track and field, [3] issued new guidelines concerning shoes to be used in the upcoming Tokyo 2020 Olympics. [4] These updated guidelines followed complaints concerning the apparent performance advantage of Nike Vaporfly running shoes since 2017-2018. [ 5 ]
The International Olympic Committee’s decision to strip U.S. gymnast Jordan Chiles of her floor exercise bronze medal is the sport’s highest-profile controversy since the 2000 Olympic Games in ...
Cases of COVID-19 at the 2020 Summer Olympics and the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, are part of a cluster of SARS-CoV-2 infections within the COVID-19 pandemic in Tokyo that began in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Village in July 2021, prior to the Opening Ceremony of the 2020 Summer Olympics on 23 July 2021.