A resurgence of infections around the world have led organisers to acknowledge nothing is certain. Adding to the headwinds is Japan’s second state of emergency & public opposition.
The committee has said athletes who have qualified for the July 2021 Olympics should be sent abroad for training, and must get Covid vaccine on priority.
Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju said that India is expected to send the largest ever contingent to the postponed Tokyo Olympics which is scheduled to be held from 23 July in 2021.
The Tokyo games, set for 23 July to 8 Aug, 2021, will mark the first time an Olympics has been postponed since the modern games began in the 19th century.
As plans begin to take shape, sports director of the Tokyo Organizing Committee says details that previously went unnoticed, like the sounds athletes make, will take on more focus.
The world watched aghast as police armed with tasers, tear-gas masks—and in one case backed up by snipers—arrested hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters at universities across the United States.
Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
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