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Tokyo | Just four days after Naomi Osaka mounted the stairs to light the Olympic cauldron, presented as a symbol of a new, more inclusive Japan, that image was undermined on Tuesday by a backlash that followed her surprise defeat in Tokyo.
Many Japanese were stunned by Osaka’s third-round loss to Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic after she had been favoured to take the women’s tennis gold medal on home soil.
Naomi Osaka’s third-round loss to Marketa Vondrousova came as a shock to many and prompted disparaging comments online.
The New York Times
But as the face of a Summer Games riddled with scandal and anxiety over an unstinting pandemic – Tokyo posted a record number of new coronavirus cases on Tuesday – Osaka took a drubbing on Japanese social media, with some questioning her identity or right to represent the country at all.
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