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Updated: 10:41 PM EDT May 24, 2021
BUFFALO, N.Y. The postponed Olympic games in Toyko are fast approaching, with less than 2 months to go before the opening ceremonies.
However, there are some new concerns about the games looming.
Monday, the U.S. State Department issued a no travel advisory to Japan citing a very high level of COVID-19 there.
The Olympics were postponed to 2021 due to the pandemic and no foreign fans are allowed to attend. This means the families of WNY athletes and Olympic hopefuls will have to watch from home.
Tonawanda s Anita Alvarez is looking to make her return to the synchronized swimming pool in Tokyo.
Yulimar Rojas and Mondo Duplantis (© Dan Vernon)
As this extraordinary year draws to a close, we look back at the key moments of 2020 in each area of the sport. The series continues today with a review of the jumping disciplines.
Men’s high jump
While Covid-19 seems to have impacted this event in a big way, performance levels were already down before the pandemic struck.
Five athletes shared an indoor world lead of 2.33m earlier in the year, the lowest world indoor lead in 37 years. Outdoors, only one jumper, 22-year-old Maksim Nedasekau from Belarus, jumped 2.33m – the lowest world lead for 39 years.
it is 5:00 a.m. here in the east. we begin this morning with breaking news. a deadly past 48 hours in afghanistan. new details of two attacks. an effort to derail the transition of power there. the taliban is claiming responsibility for an attack wednesday that left four americans dead, including senior members of an army brigade after an in-ssurgent detonated a suice vest. thomas kennedy and kevin griffin and walter gray were killed along with an american aid worker and afghan interpreter. and nato confirms that three u.s. service members were killed when a sgun man wearing an afghan forces uniform opened fire in the southern helmand province this morning. no claim of responsibility there yet. new details are expected and well be live at the pentagon at the bottom of the hour with more information for you. and now let s take you inside the wisconsin temple where six peoe were killed, three others wounded by a gunman on sunday. this video shot exclusively by cnn showing
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