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TopicOlympics 2020

Topic: Olympics 2020

For isolated athletes, Tokyo Olympics promises to be the weirdest ever games

For the aspiring athletes, the road to Tokyo has been long, uncertain and arduous. The event is likely to be strangely lifeless — no revelry after victories or families to offer support.

Japanese don’t want the Olympics, but it’s not just up to Japan to cancel the games

Japanese PM Yoshihide Suga earlier told members of a parliamentary committee that although he has 'never put the Olympics first,' it’s was the IOC that has the final say.

Olympics losing public support in Japan, gorillas test positive in US and other Covid news

As the Covid-19 pandemic shows no signs of letting up, ThePrint highlights the most important stories on the crisis from across the globe.

Japan’s wish to host the Olympics could come at a hefty price

A July poll taken after the games were rescheduled found that one-third of the Japanese public wanted them canceled outright, and slightly more thought they should be postponed again.

Tokyo Olympics 2021 will take place ‘with or without’ Covid, says IOC top executive

International Olympic Committee’s V-P John Coates said the games will start as planned on 23 July, adding that the Olympics have never been cancelled outside of world wars.

Tokyo Olympics set to be the first one to be postponed in the history of the games

Japan PM Shinzo Abe said the Olympics will have to be postponed if safety can’t be guaranteed for spectators and athletes due to the pandemic.

Japan is paralysed because it doesn’t know what to do with the Olympics

Other sporting events in Japan, US and and other countries have been canceled, delayed or held without spectators because of the COVID-19 outbreak.

Tokyo Olympics 2020 will either make or break Neeraj Chopra’s javelin-throwing career

For javelin throwers, a serious injury that needs a surgery to the throwing arm would have simply meant the end of a career. But not for Neeraj Chopra.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.