Tokyo Games News

Lakra is two-time Asian Games medallist Lakra was also a part of the silver-medal winning team in 2014 Commonwealth Games

Indian Wrestler Bajrang Punia has been granted Rs 1.76 lakh additional financial assistance for training, earlier he was given Rs 7.53 lakhs for training in Moscow.

Indian archers will begin the country's medal hunt on Saturday India`s best medal hopes will be in shooting and weightlifting

PM Modi will meet the Indian athletes individually after they return home from Tokyo This was announced by Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Anurag Thakur

Teams of Pakistan, two other nations flouted COVID rules Their members were seen without a mask at the opening ceremony

Hend Zaza is the youngest competitor at the Tokyo Games She is also the youngest Olympian since the 1968 Winter Olympics

After 49 years, Israelis killed at 1972 Munich Games were remembered in opening ceremony Relatives of those killed had sought for them to be remembered at opening ceremonies but the IOC had previously ignored those requests

Tokyo Olympics 2020 began in empty stadiums without fans Organizers were forced to take the unprecedented step as the novel coronavirus is on the rise again

Tokyo Olympic Games 2020 officially began with empty stadiums The opening ceremony began without the usual mass choreography, huge props and cornucopia of dancers, actors and lights associated with past celebrations

Wrestling as a sporting discipline has been part of the Olympic Games since 1896. Independent India won their first Olympic medal through wrestling with the legendary KD Jadhav winning the men's 57kg freestyle bronze medal in the 1952 Helsinki Games. Since then India have won five Olympic medals through the sport of wrestling. In these collection of pictures, we take a look at history of Indian wrestling at the Olympic Games with the Tokyo Games set to get underway on July 23. 

Okabe, who heads the Kawasaki City Institute for Public Health, also said Japan’s commercialisation and licensing hurdles involving drugs and medical products remain a ‘big problem’, as they could slow its response to health crisis such as pandemics. Japan has approved only one COVID-19 vaccine so far and about 0.9% of its population of 126 million has gotten at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, compared with 2.2% in South Korea or 36% in the United States, according to a Reuters tracker.

Tensions on the Korean Peninsula rose last month when the North resumed missile tests, although both sides said after the launches that they wanted to continue dialogue. The North made its decision to pull out of Tokyo at a meeting of its Olympic committee and Sports Minister Kim Il Guk on March 25, the ministry said on its website. North Korea says it has not had any coronavirus cases.

The torch will travel through some of the worst-hit areas first. Japan has spent nearly $300 billion to revive the region, but many locals are apprehensive about the Games. The organisers insist the Olympics will go ahead, but doctors and nurses have complained about the strain on hospitals and experts warn about the spread of virus variants.

Japan has been hit less severely by the pandemic than many other advanced economies but a recent surge in cases has forced it to close its borders to non-resident foreigners and declare a state of emergency in the Tokyo and other cities.

Atanu Das has already become the only recurve athlete to have secured qualification for Olympics 2021. The Tokyo Games was originally scheduled to take place from July 24 to August 9, 2020 but was postponed due to coronavirus. The Olympics in Tokyo is now slated to be held from July 23 to August 8 next year.

The virus has maintained its global spread in recent months, casting a shadow over the viability of the postponed Games but Bach was optimistic about efforts to fight it. The Tokyo Olympics, originally scheduled for this summer, were postponed for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Olympic Games are now scheduled to take place from July 23 to August 8 next year.

The Olympic flame will go on display at the Japanese Olympic Museum from September 1. The flame of Tokyo Games 2021 will remain on display from September 1-November 1. They have chosen to display the flame at the JOC museum, which is near the National Stadium purpose-built for the Games.

Ayaka Takahashi will not defend her doubles crown with Misaki Matsutomo at next year`s Tokyo Games Takahashi cited the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics as one of the reasons for her decision to step away Takahashi and Matsutomo were doubles partners for over a decade and last played together at the All England Open in March

The decision allows 143 sportsmen and women who have qualified for the Tokyo Games to end their home confinement and use the facilities of their respective clubs.

Earlier, the international body had suspended all tournaments till July due to the coronavirus pandemic.