All You Need to Know: Key Issues as Tokyo Marks 100 Days Until Olympics
The countdown to the Tokyo Olympics hit the 100-day mark on Wednesday as the Games draw closer to reality after a one-year delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The countdown to the Tokyo Olympics hit the 100-day mark on Wednesday as the Games draw closer to reality after a one-year delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
But several questions remain unanswered amid uncertainties over the pandemic, including how many spectators will be allowed into venues and what revisions will be made to participants COVID-19 health protocols.
Elavenil Valarivan in, Chinki Yadav reserve as India announce team for Tokyo Olympics
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Elavenil Valarivan in, Chinki Yadav reserve as India announce team for Tokyo Olympics
Elavenil Valarivan won her first gold in the women s 10m air rifle event at the ISSF World Cup in Rio.
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World number one Elavenil Valarivan s inclusion in a 15-member Indian shooting contingent for the Tokyo Olympics at the expense of quota winner Chinki Yadav, who had claimed a gold in the Delhi World Cup last month, was the big talking point after the National Rifle Association of India announced the squad on Sunday.
Updated Mar 17, 2021 | 20:58 IST
Murali Shreeshankar a student from KIIT university and Bhavani Devi an Alumnus from Kendriya Vidyalaya qualified for Olympics 2021 Scheduled to be held in Tokyo. KIIT student and KVS alumnus qualified for Tokyo Olympics.
Murali Shreeshankar is an Athlete and a Kendriya Vidyalaya (KV) alumnus, along with Bhavani Devi a fencer, student of the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) in Odisha, have qualified for the upcoming Tokyo Olympic games.
Murali Sreeshankar, graduated from KV Kanjikode in 2017 and will represent India in the long jump event in the upcoming Olympics. His national record of 8.26 meters is recorded at the Federation Cup, as the Sports Authority of India said.
Bhavani Devi first-ever Indian fencer to qualify for Olympics
Bhavani Devi, the 27-year-old from Chennai is the first Indian fencer ever to make the cut for the Olympics.
By IANS
Road to Tokyo Olympics 2020
India s international sabre fencer Bhavani Devi has qualified for the Tokyo Olympics starting July 23 by virtue of improving her world ranking to 42, confirmed the Fencing Association of India.
The 27-year-old from Chennai is the first Indian fencer ever to make the cut for the Olympics. She qualified for the Games at the Budapest World Cup, an Olympic qualifying competition, on Sunday.
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As Covid-19 vaccination programmes began rolling out around the world at the beginning of this year, there was a flicker of hope that, come summer, social distancing restrictions and travel bans would lift, life would get back to somewhat-normal, and 2021 would be saved.
For anyone looking forward to this year s staging of the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, the timing seemed perfect: scheduled for July 23rd through August 8th, the Tokyo games would have been the ultimate
I m-free-from-lockdown bucket list trip abroad. Unfortunately, it seems like an overseas trip to Japan won t be possible, at least for the time being.
According to a report from Kyodo News, a Japanese new agency, the government has decided to exclude overseas spectators from attending this summer s Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics because of ongoing uncertainties around coronavirus mutations in regions around the world. Although the official announcement regarding this travel ban on foreigners has yet to be