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Japan spends billions on technology for absent Tokyo Olympic fans

Japan's top telecommunications company is getting 7.3 billion yen about $67 million in taxpayer money to design mobile tracking software to curb the spread of coronavirus during the Tokyo Olympics

Kamalpreet Kaur: India's latest discus throw sensation

Kamalpreet Kaur booked her ticket for the Tokyo Olympic Games after she sent the discus to 65.06 metres in her first and only legal throw at the 24th Federation Cup Senior Athletics Championships

Japan to accept no more than 90,000 foreign citizens at Tokyo Olympics

The Japanese government expects that the number of foreign citizens who will attend the upcoming Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo will not exceed 90,000, Japanese media reported on Saturday

Kamal-Manika enter final of Olympics qualifier event

The Indian pair of Achanta Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra made its way to the mixed-doubles final at the Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament

ISSF World Cup: Divyansh, Babuta, Anjum qualify for 10m air rifle finals

Tokyo Olympics quota holders Anjum Moudgil, Divyansh Singh Panwar and Arjun Babuta qualified for the women's and men's 10m air rifle finals respectively on the opening day of the ISSF World Cup

Planning to send Indian contingent in advance for Tokyo Olympics: Rijiju

Planning to send Indian contingent in advance for Tokyo Olympics: Rijiju

Sharath Kamal becomes first Indian paddler to qualify for Tokyo Olympics

Achanta Sharath Kamal on Thursday became the first Indian paddler to qualify for the Tokyo Olympic Games after win over Pak's Muhammad Rameez at the Asian Olympic Qualification tournament in Doha.

Ace Indian paddler Sharath Kamal qualifies for Tokyo Olympics

Ace Indian paddler Sharath Kamal on Thursday qualified for the Tokyo Olympics after registering an easy win over Pakistan's Rameez Muhammad at the Asian Olympic qualifiers in Doha.

Delhi World Cup a test event before Tokyo Olympics: Sanjeev Rajput

Seasoned Indian rifleman Sanjeev Rajput on Thursday said the Delhi World Cup could act as a perfect testing ground for shooters before the Tokyo Olympics

Long jumper Murli Sreeshankar qualifies for 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Long jumper Sreeshankar on Tuesday qualified for the Olympics by bettering his own national record with a leap of 8.26m on the second day of the Federation Cup Senior National Athletics Championships

Wrestling: Sandeep books 74kg slot for next month's Olympic Qualifiers

National champion Sandeep Singh Mann booked the 74kg slot in the Indian wrestling team for the upcoming Asian Olympic Qualifiers, edging out comeback-man Narsingh Pancham Yadav

Bhavani Devi first-ever Indian fencer to qualify for Olympics

India's international sabre fencer Bhavani Devi has qualified for the Tokyo Olympics starting July 23 by virtue of improving her world ranking to 42, confirmed the Fencing Association of India.

Olympic host Japan will not take part in China vaccine offer

Japan will not take part in China's offer accepted by the International Olympic Committee to provide vaccines for participants" in the postponed Tokyo Games and next year's Beijing Winter Games

Indian hockey teams to get allowance under TOPS till Olympics: SAI

The core group players of both the Indian men's and women's hockey teams will be entitled to a monthly allowance of Rs 50,000 under the government's Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS)

Riise to coach British women's soccer team at Tokyo Olympics

Britain's Olympic women's soccer team will be coached by Hege Riise in Japan, the English Football Association announced Wednesday. The Norwegian is currently in temporary charge of England after Phil Neville left in January to coach Inter Miami in Major League Soccer. During her playing career, Riise helped Norway win Olympic gold at the 2000 Games in Sydney, and she was an assistant coach as the United States won the title in 2012 in London. Riise will be assisted by former Canada international Rhian Wilkinson, who has been working alongside her at England. "I know firsthand as a former player just how huge the Olympics are as a tournament and I am enormously proud to have this opportunity to lead the GB squad into the Games," Riise said. "We will go there to give everything we have to be successful and I hope we can also use the power of the games to help women's football continue to grow in popularity." While the four British nations usually compete as England, Scotland, Wale

Japan to keep foreign spectators away from Tokyo Olympics amid Covid-19

The Tokyo 2020 games organising committee said in response that a decision would be made by the end of March

Tokyo Olympics: Atanu, Tarundeep, Deepika in Indian recurve archery squad

Seasoned Atanu Das and Tarundeeep Rai among men and Deepika Kumari in the women's section will headline the Indian recurve archery contingent during this year's Tokyo Olympics. After the final selection trials (Trial 3) at the Army Insitute of Sports in Pune, a six-strong squad which has three male and equal number of female archers was selected for the quadrennial extravaganza. Besides Atanu and Tarundeep, the other archer in the Indian men's team is Pravin Jadhav, while Ankita Bhakat and Komolika Bari complete the women's squad. "The selection for the Olympic team on a points system took into consideration the scores of Trial 2 that took place in November 2020, the scores of this trial and whether the archer had won an Olympic quota," a release issued by the Sports Authority of India stated. The men's recurve team had already won a quota by winning a silver medal at the 2019 Archery World Championships held in the Netherlands. "By winning this quota, they were eligible for singl

Olympic-bound Chopra shatters own javelin throw national record at IGP

Olympic-bound star Chopra smashed his own national record with a throw of 88.07m, which is also the bet of the year so far, in a sensational return to action during the 3rd Indian Grand Prix meet

New Tokyo Olympic president tries to assure Japan on safety

The new president of the Olympic organizing committee has begun holding weekly news conferences hoping to win over a doubting Japanese public with the postponed games opening in just under 5 months

No fans from abroad for postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics: Report

The postponed Tokyo Olympics look like they will take place without any fans from abroad when they open in just under five months. The Japanese newspaper Mainichi said on Wednesday the decision had been made to exclude foreign fans. It cited only unnamed sources involved in the discussions. It said a final decision would be made within the month. In the current situation it is impossible to bring in foreign spectators, the newspaper said, citing an unnamed government official. The report came just an hour before Tokyo organizers held five-party talks online with the International Olympic Committee, the International Paralympic Committee, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the central government of Japan. Fans were reported to be a key part of the discussion and IOC President Thomas Bach hinted at hard choices to be made in comments before the meeting. We will focus on the essentials, Bach said before the meeting began without reporters present. That means mainly the competitio