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Fewer than 1,000 to watch Olympics opening ceremony in stadium: Official

Only about 950 people, including officials and reporters, will be allowed to watch Friday's opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics in the main stadium

Tokyo Olympics sacks opening ceremony director over Holocaust joke

Dismissal comes a day before ceremony, leaving plans in limbo

China threatens Japan with nuclear war over intervention in Taiwan

Deputy PM Aso urged dialogue to resolve any issue

Covid at Olympics: 2 more players out, total infected athletes rises to 10

Czech beach volleyball player Marketa Nausch and Dutch taekwondo hope Reshmie Oogink were on Thursday forced out of the Olympic Games after testing positive for COVID-19

20 Indian athletes, 6 officials to take part in Olympics opening ceremony

A total of 20 Indian athletes from seven sports and six officials will participate in the Olympics opening ceremony on Friday

All for nothing: Athletes qualify but end out of Olympics

As one of the top-ranked taekwondo fighters in the world, Jess Tortosa was ready to start packing for the Tokyo Olympics.

Japan opens Olympic men's soccer with 1-0 win over South Africa

An empty stadium is not how Japanese athletes imagined competing for the first time in Tokyo at their home Olympics. At least the men's soccer team won on Thursday a day before the opening ceremony of the pandemic-impacted games. Takefusa Kubo scored the only goal with a curling strike off the post in the 71st minute that clinched a 1-0 victory over South Africa at the Tokyo Stadium. Kubo is a 20-year-old forward signed up to Real Madrid who has yet to play for the Spanish giants while gaining first-team experience elsewhere in La Liga. In the other Group A game, Mexico beat France 4-1.

Guinea pulls out of Tokyo Olympics due to Covid-19 pandemic

Guinea, a small African country, has pulled out of the Olympic Games that begin on Friday, citing resurgence of Covid-19 variants

Tokyo: Indian boxers training at Games Village as boxing venue 'quite far'

The boxing competition of the Games is scheduled to be held in Sumida ward's Ryogoku Kokugikan arena here, primarily a sumo wrestling venue.

Indian paddlers get tough draws, Sharath-Manika to face 3rd seed in opener

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Covid watch: Czech TT player Sirucek to miss Games after positive test

The ITTF said on Wednesday that Pavel Sirucek from the Czech Republic had tested positive for COVID-19 and become the first table tennis player to withdraw from the Tokyo Olympics

Tokyo Olympics: 3 players ruled out after testing positive for Covid-19

Three athletes belonging to three different countries were ruled out of the Olympics after testing positive for COVID-19 here on Wednesday, less than two days before the showpiece opens

Opening of Tokyo Games will be 'a moment of joy and relief': IOC president

The opening of Tokyo 2020 will be a moment of joy and relief, said the head of the International Olympic Committee on Wednesday.

Six officials to be allowed at Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony

Only six officials from the Indian contingent will be allowed to take part in the Olympics opening ceremony on Friday, the country's deputy chef-de-mission Prem Kumar Verma told PTI on Wednesday

Two days to go for Olympic flame to show up at Opening ceremony

The Olympic torch relay continued in Tokyo on Wednesday with two days countdown for the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Games. A "Torch Kiss" ceremony was staged at Shinagawa Central Park, Tokyo with participation of crowd of spectators at the site under the heat of the sun. The torchbearers are from all walks of life, including Ai Shibata, two times Olympian in Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008. Shibata won the gold medal in women's 800m freestyle in Athens. The Tokyo Olympic torch relay is scheduled to visit all 47 prefectures of Japan over 121 days. It will end on July 23rd at the Opening Ceremonies in Tokyo.

Japanese envoy to Australia says Tokyo 'struggles every day' with China

Japan's relationship with China was no better than notoriously strained Sino-Australian relations, the Japanese ambassador to Australia said on Wednesday

Japan tops Australia in softball as delayed Tokyo Olympic Games open

Host Japan got off to a winning start when the Tokyo Olympics got underway after a one-year delay, beating Australia 8-1 on Wednesday in softball behind 39-year-old pitcher Yukiko Ueno

850,000 people watch virtual Olympic festival leading up to the games

Just four days before the official opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympic Games about 850000 people logged in to watch an online festival taking place in a virtual Olympic stadium

More Japanese companies pull out of Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony

Three days to go for the opening ceremony

Covid watch: Organisers do not rule out cancellation of Tokyo 2020 Games

Tokyo 2020 Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Toshiro Muto on Tuesday did not rule out a last-minute cancellation of the Games if the Covid-19 cases continue to rise.