Tag: Tokyo 2020
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South Africa’s Schoenmaker: Top Medal Contender in the 100m and 200m Breaststroke Events at Tokyo 2021
South Africa’s Tatjana Schoenmaker is a leading medal contender in the 100m and 200m breaststroke events at Tokyo 2021 and hopes she can end the rainbow nation’s 21 years wait for a medal in the women’s swimming events at the Summer Games. The 23-year-old African champion chatted to CGTN’s Sias du Plessis.
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Mona McSharry | Qualifying For the Tokyo Olympics | “I Can Get Faster”
Swimmer Mona McSharry joined Off The Ball on Wednesday evening, fresh from booking her place at the Tokyo Games when swimming inside the 100m breaststroke qualifying time at the Irish Olympic trials.​
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From #Tokyo2018​ to #Tokyo2020​! | Rikako Ikee 🇯🇵 Epic Performance at FINA Swimming World Cup 2018
Rikako Ikee is an inspiration to all of us! She has come back in the pool and swam a time of 57.77 in the 100m fly recently, allowing her to secure a place in the Olympic women’s medley relay team. Although she will not be participating in the individual event, she has proved that the…
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Ryan Lochte Hopes To Show His Kids ‘Dad Is A Fighter’ During Tokyo Olympics | TODAY
NBC Sports analyst Mary Carillo and six-time Olympic gold medalist and swimmer Ryan Lochte join TODAY to share their excitement and hopes 100 days out from the Olympics in Tokyo.
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Swimmer Nathan Adrian: ‘I Feel Good’ Heading Into Tokyo Olympics | TODAY
Nathan Adrian, a five-time gold medalist in swimming, talks to TODAY about competing in the long-awaited Tokyo Olympics. “I feel good,†he says, adding that “the extra year helped smooth out some kinks†from surgeries he underwent while battling cancer. He also talks about fatherhood, saying “Dad life is the best.â€
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Protests Against Tokyo Olympics as Japan Suffers COVID Surge
With just one hundred days to go before the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics in July, the city is seeing protests calling for the Games to be delayed.
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With 100 Days To Go, Tokyo Scrambles to Stage Pandemic Olympics
When Japan won the bid to host the Olympic Games eight years ago, it billed Tokyo as a reliable and secure location, contrasting it with rivals struggling with finances and political instability. But 100 days before the start of the Olympics, the organizers face a deluge of challenges and growing uncertainty as the pandemic rages around the world, affecting…
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Tokyo Olympics: 72 Percent of Japanese Polled Want the Games Canceled or Postponed Over Slow Vaccine Rollout
The Tokyo Olympics are only three months away now, but there is still a lot of uncertainty and concern surrounding the event, specifically among those living in Japan. Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and not everyone in the country being vaccinated, many are worried the games — which have already been postponed once —…