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It has been a great honor to have attended every Olympic Games since the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympics as either a volunteer or researcher. Tokyo 2020 was to be my 20th consecutive Games until COVID-19. I was obviously devastated to be cut from the accredited list in June, but what I’ve learned is golden. As […]
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When Tokyo was awarded the Olympic Games, local organizers had the chance to weigh in on which popular sports popular in Japan should be added to the program. It’s one reason karate is making its debut in Tokyo and that baseball and softball are back on the agenda as well after more than 12 years. […]
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In typical years, the Olympic Games features an elaborate internal transportation system that shuttles athletes, officials, federation members and journalists to the different venues they need to be at any given moment. Each subgroup has its own network of buses or vehicles, each with access to a dedicated Olympic lane of traffic required to be […]
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Venues at the Tokyo Olympic Games are clustered in two main zones, one along the water and another referred to as the “Heritage” zone. That latter zone contains many of the venues that Tokyo used during the 1964 Games, the last time the city hosted. One of the jewels of these venues in Yoyogi National […]
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What if you held an Olympic Games and no one came? That’s not exactly the scenario in Tokyo, but it certainly feels that way. It’s not that people wouldn’t have come, of course. It’s that they weren’t allowed. Foreign spectators were banned months ago while Japanese residents learned weeks before the Games they wouldn’t be […]
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Tuesday, July 27, was a big day on the Olympic program, with much of the attention in the United States focused on the women’s gymnastics team and the withdrawal of Simone Biles from the competition. But in Yokohama, about an hour from Tokyo, an entirely different drama in women’s sports was taking place at Yokohoma […]
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For the second straight day, Tokyo recorded its largest number of COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began, with the city government reporting 3,177 positive cases. It’s the first time the city has recorded more than 3,000 cases in one day and mirrors a trend across several Asian nations in recent weeks that had otherwise had […]
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Tokyo 2020, the local organizing committee of the Olympic Games, had all the right intentions when it set out to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Like all host committees, it sought ways to engage the community by getting involved however they could. One of the projects organizers created was called Flower Lane, an effort […]
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One of the biggest cases for hosting the Olympics Games is to put your city front and center for two weeks to the world. And from those with the interest, need or resources to travel to the Games, there is undoubtedly a tourism boost as well. This year, however, with all spectators banned and athletes […]
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The changing logistics of the rescheduled Olympic Summer Games forced national governing bodies around the world to adjust their plans for training in advance of the Games and during the event itself. In the case of USA Weightlifting, which back before the 2020 event had planned its own training center in Tokyo, the new landscape […]
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