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'I can die': Olympic athletes struggle with Tokyo's sweltering heat

Earlier on Friday, Russian archer fainted as Tokyo's temperatures climbed to as high as 34 degrees C

Tokyo sets another coronavirus record days after start of Olympics

Tokyo has reported 3,177 new coronavirus cases, setting an all-time high and exceeding 3,000 for the first time days after the start of the Olympics

Tokyo governor urges youth to get vaccinated to slow coronavirus surge

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike on Wednesday urged younger people to cooperate with measures to bring down the high number of infections and get vaccinated

Coronavirus cases in Tokyo leap to new record of 2,848 amid Olympics

A four-day weekend to celebrate the opening of the sports spectacle is also likely to have led to a backlog of testing

USA Gymnastics: Simone Biles out of team finals with medical issue

Reigning Olympic gymnastics champion Simone Biles is out of the team finals with what USA Gymnastics described as a medical issue

World Coronavirus Dispatch: Understanding the UK model of living with virus

Daily virus cases in Tokyo leap to record of over 3,000, Bhutan's rapid Covid vaccine rollout hailed as global success story, and other pandemic-related news across the globe

Tokyo hits record 2,848 virus cases days after Olympic Games begin

Tokyo reported its highest daily number of new coronavirus infections Tuesday, days after the Olympics began. The Japanese capital reported 2,848 new COVID-19 cases, exceeding the earlier record of 2,520 cases from Jan. 7. It brings Tokyo's total to more than 200,000 since the pandemic began last year. Tokyo is under its fourth state of emergency that will last through the Olympics and into the Paralympics next month. Experts have warned the more contagious delta variant could cause a surge during the Olympics, which started Friday.

5-time US fencing Olympian Mariel Zagunis still looking to future

Mariel Zagunis, the first American woman to win an Olympic gold medal in fencing, was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the saber event on Monday at the Tokyo Games

Asian stocks mixed, Tokyo gains after Wall Street highs

Asian shares were mixed on Monday after stocks rallied to records on Wall Street, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing above the 35,000 level for the first time.

After a high, the reality check: No medals for India on Olympics Day 2

The shooters came undone once again and the hockey team took a hammering

Indian rowers move to repechage round in men's lightweight double sculls

The Indian rowing duo of Arvind Singh and Arjun Lal Jat qualified for the repechage round after finishing fifth in the men's lightweight double sculls heat here on Saturday.

Tokyo Olympics: Indian judoka Sushila loses her round of 32 clash

Indian judoka Sushila Devi's challenge in the Tokyo Olympics came to an early end as she lost her contest to Hungarian Eva Csernoviczki

Tokyo Olympics sacks opening ceremony director over Holocaust joke

Dismissal comes a day before ceremony, leaving plans in limbo

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.

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.

88-member Indian contingent, including 54 athletes, arrives in Tokyo

Excited and cautious in equal measure, the first batch of athletes from India's Olympic contingent arrived in Tokyo on Sunday, clearing the exhaustive Covid-19 related protocols at airport

Indian shooting contingent arrives in Tokyo ahead of Olympic Games

Indian shooting team on Saturday arrived in Tokyo for the upcoming Olympic Games which gets underway from July 23.Samples of the shooting contingent for the COVID-19 test have been collected and they all are waiting for the results.On Friday, the Indian shooting contingent for Tokyo 2020 reached Amsterdam from their Zagreb base in Croatia. Saurabh Choudhary, Abhishek Verma, Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, and Anjum Moudgil headline India's shooting squad.The Indian team had an incredible medal-winning performance at ISSF World Cup in New Delhi and Croatia. The medal count was less in Croatia than in New Delhi because of less representation. In New Delhi, 52 shooters competed, while only 14 Indian shooters were in the fray in Croatia.The Indian shooting squad for Tokyo 2020 consists of Deepak Kumar, Divyansh Singh Panwar, Sanjeev Rajput, Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Saurabh Chaudhary, Abhishek Verma, Angad Vir Singh Bajwa, Mairaj Ahmad Khan, Apurvi Chandela, Elavenil Valarivan, Anjum ...

Cases surge to six month high in Tokyo a week before Olympics

New coronavirus cases surged to 1,308 in Tokyo on Thursday, a six-month high, as fears rise of a possible dramatic increase that could flood hospitals during the Olympics that start in eight days. Tokyo is under a fourth state of emergency, which began Monday and requires restaurants and bars to close early and not serve alcohol through the Olympics, which start July 23. Thursday's tally is the highest since 1,485 were recorded on Jan. 21, when Japan was under an earlier state of emergency, and is also a jump from Wednesday's 1,149. Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike noted that the largest increase in serious cases and hospitalizations was among people in their 50s and younger who are largely unvaccinated. She expressed concern about the impact on the medical system as infections are propelled by the more contagious delta strain of the virus. "We need to stay on alert," Koike said, urging people to minimize outings and stick to basic anti-infection measures to overcome this very difficult ..

India to participate in 9 sporting events at upcoming Tokyo Paralympics

India will participate across nine sporting events in the upcoming Tokyo Paralympics which gets underway from August 24

Tokyo Olympics: Spectators also barred from outlying venues amid Covid

All fans from abroad were banned months ago.