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The Paris 2024 Olympic Games were set to be the hottest on record, an increase on the previous Games in Tokyo, during which athletes had already expressed health concerns. In June 2024, a report titled "Rings of Fire: Heat Risks at the 2024 Paris Olympics" documented concerns, and the IOC proposed mitigation measures.
Several Japanese business executives and employees were arrested between August and October 2022 on suspicion of bribery.Former Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics executive board member Haruyuki Takahashi was arrested on four separate occasions within that period of time after allegedly receiving money from several businesses in exchange for facilitating Olympic sponsorship contracts.
Yet Tokyo's Olympics opened on a far more somber, muted note. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Sign in ...
WASHINGTON/TOKYO (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden is poised to officially block Nippon Steel's proposed $14.9-billion purchase of U.S. Steel, a person familiar with the matter said on Friday ...
"The lack of fans will be weird for some of the athletes," says former U.S. Olympic swimmer Tara Kirk Sell.
14 June – Yayoi Kimura, the former mayor of Kōtō, Tokyo is given a suspended 1.5 year prison sentence for vote-buying by the Tokyo District Court. [67] 20 June – A no-confidence motion against the Kishida Cabinet filed by the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan is defeated in the House of Representatives. [68]
The people putting 7,000 hours of Olympics coverage on screen for NBC are facing some Olympic challenges all their own. The coronavirus pandemic crimped the ability of producers at NBC Sports to ...
The eighth match represented Nosawa Rongai's retirement match in which he teamed up with his old Tokyo Gurentai stablemate and tag team partner Mazada to fall short to New Japan Pro Wrestling's Taiji Ishimori and Gedo of the Bullet Club. The ninth and tenth matches portraited confrontations between singles champions of both Noah and NJPW.