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A number of concerns and controversies arose leading up to the 2020 Summer Olympics, which took place in Tokyo, Japan. The games were postponed until July 2021 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic . The IOC stated that their Japanese partners and the former prime minister Shinzo Abe "made it very clear" in 2020, "that Japan could not manage a ...
Adolf Hitler arriving at the opening ceremony of the controversial 1936 Berlin Games Jesse Owens on the podium after winning the long jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics In 1931, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) selected the German capital city Berlin as the host city of the 1936 Summer Olympics .
On 7 December 2020, following allegations of athlete intimidation and even torture, [4] the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced several provisional measures against the National Olympic Committee for the Republic of Belarus (NOC RB).
Yoshiro Mori’s resignation is the latest in a string of incidents. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
The 2020 Summer Olympics, [c] officially the Games of the XXXII Olympiad [d] and officially branded as Tokyo 2020, [e] were an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July 2021.
The International Olympic Committee’s decision to strip U.S. gymnast Jordan Chiles of her floor exercise bronze medal is the sport’s highest-profile controversy since the 2000 Olympic Games in ...
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On January 31, 2020, World Athletics, the governing body for professional track and field, [3] issued new guidelines concerning shoes to be used in the upcoming Tokyo 2020 Olympics. [4] These updated guidelines followed complaints concerning the apparent performance advantage of Nike Vaporfly running shoes since 2017-2018. [ 5 ]