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Yogi govt presents Rs 42 crore monetary award to Tokyo Olympians

The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday gave away a sum of Rs 42 crore by way of felicitating the Olympians who did the nation proud at the recently-concluded Tokyo Games

You are all winners and role models, Modi tells Tokyo-bound para athletes

India is sending a 54-member team -- the largest ever -- in the upcoming Tokyo Paralympics with hopes that the country will produce its best ever performance.

Japan's PM Yoshihide Suga thanks people for safe Olympics during pandemic

Japan's prime minister thanked people for helping the country safely hold the Olympics despite the difficulties of the coronavirus pandemic

Tokyo Olympics: From 3DAT to robots, the Games that went high-tech

The Olympics this year were not just tech-heavy in these more visible ways, but also deployed technology to bring the Games to the world in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic

Tokyo registers over 4,000 Covid-19 cases for fifth straight day

Tokyo registered a total of 4,066 new infections on Sunday, the administration said, adding that one more Covid-19 patient has died over the given period. Another 151 people are in serious condition.

Tokyo reports over 4,000 new coronavirus cases amid Summer Olympics 2020

Tokyo on Saturday reported 4,566 Covid-19 cases amid the ongoing Summer Olympics 2020 in the city

Tokyo Olympics cost $15.4 billion. What else could that money buy?

The average elementary school in Japan costs about $13 million. For that price, you get 1,200 schools.

Tokyo logs record 5,042 cases as infections surge amid Olympic Games

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has denied the Olympics have caused a rise in infections.

Covid-19: Tokyo reports over 3,700 cases amid Olympic Games 2020

Tokyo on Tuesday reported 3,709 new cases of coronavirus amid Olympic 2020 in the city while eighteen more people associated with the Tokyo Olympics have been tested positive.New cases had topped 3,000 for five consecutive days in Tokyo and doctors have also criticised the government's response to the increasing cases, Kyodo News reported.Overall 12,017 new cases of COVID-19 have been reported in the country which is the second-highest single-day record.A day earlier, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga decided that only patients with severe cases of COVID-19 can be admitted to hospitals, making a policy U-turn.Meanwhile, Japan on July 31 declared a state of emergency to Tokyo, Saitama, Chiba, Kanagawa, Osaka, and Okinawa Prefectures and applied priority measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 to Hokkaido, Ishikawa, Kyoto, Hyogo, and Fukuoka Prefectures till August 31."We ask people to refrain from going out or travelling for non-essential, non-urgent reasons, and to be as careful and ...

Team GB win double gold at Olympic sailing; Italy, Brazil also top podium

Great Britain won two sailing gold medals at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on Tuesday on a day when four events were decided at the Enoshima Yacht Harbor. Their first came after a dramatic finish in the 49er men's skiff race with the British pair Dylan Fletcher and Stuart Bithell taking gold by inches. Less than one hour later Giles Scott made it two golds for Britain to continue the country's dominance in the Finn class, the team's sixth successive title in the event. Scott retained his Olympic title after going into the race with a nine-point lead. There was a silver for Team GB in the mixed foiling nacra 17 in an event where Italy reigned supreme. Brazil's Martine Grael and Kahena Kunze made sure of gold in the women's 49er class after clinching victory in the last moments of the race.

Novak Djokovic's temper flares up as he leaves Tokyo empty-handed

Novak Djokovic came to the Tokyo Olympics aiming for a Golden Slam.

Delta variant rampant in Asia; Tokyo, Thailand post record Covid infections

China is also battling an outbreak of the Delta variant in the eastern city of Nanjing, traced to airport cleaners who worked on a flight from Russia

Great Britain clinch historic gold in first-ever Triathlon Mixed Relay

The United States took silver

Tokyo Olympics: 21 more Games-related coronavirus infections reported

As per Kyodo News, none of them are athletes.

Impressive Kamalpreet finishes 2nd in discus qualification to make finals

The final will held on August 2.

Judo star Teddy Riner misses gold mark, satisfied by bronze medal

The 10-time world champion heavyweight from France spent the past half-decade working for a chance to match Olympic history with three consecutive gold medals

Japan to widen coronavirus emergency after record spike amid Games

Japan is set to expand the state of emergency in Tokyo to neighbouring areas and the western city of Osaka in the wake of record-breaking surge in infections while the capital hosts the Olympics

India's challenge ends as Sajan unable to advance to 100m butterfly semis

Swimmer Sajan Prakash finished second in his Heat but that was not enough to advance the semifinals of the men's 100m butterfly event

Indian rowers Arjun Lal, Arvind Singh finish 11th overall in Tokyo Olympics

Indian rowers, Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind Singh, ended 11th over in the men's lightweight double sculls competition at the Tokyo Olympics on Thursday

24 new Games-related Covid-19 cases reported, highest ever so far

The Tokyo Olympics organisers on Thursday announced 24 new COVID-19 cases, including three athletes, the highest one-day figures so far. The fresh additions took the total number of Games-related cases to 193. Out of the 24, six are Games-concerned personnel and 15 are contractors, besides the three athletes. The highest-ever Olympics-related cases came a day after both Japan and Tokyo's COVID-19 infection numbers hit all-time highs of 9,583 and 3,177 respectively. On Wednesday, 16 Olympics-related cases were reported but none were athletes and none were staying in the Games Village. The total number of cases in the Games village currently stands at 23. The organisers had said 38,484 people from abroad had entered Japan for the Games till Monday.