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  2. Olympics-'Belittling human lives'- how pandemic pushed ...

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    Jun Hatakeyama applied to be an Olympic volunteer, filled with excitement that he could witness something greater than the Tokyo Games previously held in 1964. But what he saw instead were ...

  3. 10,000 Tokyo Olympic Volunteers Quit Citing COVID-19 Concern

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    The organizing committee president saying she can hear the steps of athletes crossing the ocean and heading to Tokyo. 10-thousand of the games’ 80-thousand unpaid volunteers … have called it ...

  4. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic ...

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    The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (公益財団法人東京オリンピック・パラリンピック競技大会組織委員会, Koueki Zaidanhōjin Tōkyō Orinpikku Pararinpikku Kyōgitaikai Soshiki Iinkai) (TOCOG) was the organisation responsible for overseeing the planning and development of the 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games.

  5. 2020 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia

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    The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (TOCOG) released a statement on 2 March 2020, confirming that preparations for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics were "continuing as planned". [40] On 23 March, both Canada and Australia indicated that they would withdraw from the Games if they were not postponed by a year. [41]

  6. Japanese Olympic Committee - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese Olympic Committee (日本オリンピック委員会, Nippon Orinpikku Iinkai, JOC) is the National Olympic Committee in Japan for the Olympic Games movement, based in Tokyo, Japan. It is a non-profit organisation that selects teams and raises funds to send Japanese competitors to Olympic events organised by the International ...

  7. Covering my first Olympics: These are the people who made it ...

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    Finally in 2021 in Tokyo, it was added to the lineup. ... There were some 45,000 Paris Olympics volunteers, after all, more than four times the number of athletes. Surely the best of the best ...

  8. Concerns and controversies at the 2020 Summer Olympics

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    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.

  9. Gabby Thomas' Life Is About Much More Than Olympic Medals

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    After the Paris Olympics, where Thomas won the 200 m and pair of relay golds in the 4x100 and 4x400, she headlined Athlos NYC, a female-only track event backed by Reddit co-founder and venture ...