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The ‘Olympic Truce’ began seven days before the start of the Olympic Games and ends seven days after the conclusion of the Paralympics, which will conclude March 13. Photo: The Olympic Truce Flag 27 February 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News The truce is intended to secure safe passage for athletes during the…
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Unlike the recent ‘stories’ about the tennis player and the figure skater, Ms Gu is thankfully in a position to speak out against the West’s quasi-political media obsession with these young, female athletes. Photo: Silver medal winner China’s Eileen Gu celebrates during the venue award ceremony for the women’s slopestyle finals at the 2022 Winter…
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Photo: Getty The Olympics showed us how out of fashion resilience has become. 09 August 2021 | REBEKAH WANIC AND NINA POWELL | Spiked As in Olympics past, Tokyo 2020 has had its fair share of controversies, inviting commentary on wider political issues and on the 21st-century culture wars – from sexism in Japanese culture to athletes seeking…
Children from 12 camps in northwest Syria mark the end of the Tokyo Olympics with their own competition 09 August 2021 | Ali Haj Suleiman | Middle East Eye Displaced children from camps across northwest Syria gathered on Saturday to compete in the ‘Tent Olympics’ as the Tokyo Olympics drew to a close. The 120…
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Photo: IOC – The 2020 summer Olympic Games in Japan (23 Jul-8 Aug, 2021) 08 August 2021 | James Porteous | Clipper Media The 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Japan (23 Jul-8 Aug, 2021). For the rest of time those words will be written and read with a hint of stinky karma. The failed Olympics? The Games held behind…
Photo: Double gold medallist Elaine Thompson-Herah was banned from Instagram for posting videos of her victories (Note: Photo has been cropped so as to avoid offending IOC copyright) 04 August 2021 | Martyn Landi | Belfast Telegraph Instagram has explained its moderation policies after being criticised over its response to posts from Olympic champion Elaine…
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Photo: Commemorative stamps of the “1st Games of the New Emerging Forces.” The 1964 Olympics in Tokyo banned all athletes who took part in a counter-competition a year earlier called the Games of the New Emerging Forces, which were dubbed the left-wing Olympics (AP Photo) 29 July 2021 | David Webster | The Conversation The Olympic…
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Photo: Kurt Korte at Tsurigasaki Beach. “If we get to the end and we go, ‘Oh, no, the surf’s not very good,’ then I haven’t done my job.”Credit…James Hill for The New York Times Kurt Korte does not control the waves for the Games’ debut surfing competition. His job is to predict when the best ones…
Traditionally NBC, like every other network covering the Games, would spend months filming athlete interviews and background material. 22 July 2021 | Brian Steinberg | Variety The people putting 7,000 hours of Olympics coverage on screen for NBC are facing some Olympic challenges all their own. The coronavirus pandemic crimped the ability of producers at NBC…
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Photo: The grand opening of the Shinkansen bullet train at Tokyo in October 1964. Newscom/Alamy It could be said that the Olympic Games were never intended to ‘make money.’ While the IOC and broadcasters will profit from ‘ the games,’ the ‘host nation’ taxpayers are left to pay for interesting and maybe even viable ‘infrastructure’ schemes’…
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Photo: Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images Spectators to face Olympic ban as Tokyo declares coronavirus emergency-report 08 July 2021 | Eimi YamamitsuTetsushi Kajimoto | Reuters TOKYO, July 8 (Reuters) – Olympic organisers are set to ban all spectators from the Games, the Asahi daily said on Thursday, as Japan declared a coronavirus state of emergency for Tokyo…
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