2020 OLYMPIC GAMES The Olympic torch relay in Greece was cancelled on Friday March 13 – just a day after the flame was lit in Olympia. Large crowds mobbed Hollywood actor Gerard Butler as he lit the cauldron in the Greek city of Sparta despite repeated warnings for spectators not to attend because of coronavirus. That forced … Read more
2020 OLYMPIC GAMES The Olympic torch relay in Greece was cancelled on Friday March 13 – just a day after the flame was lit in Olympia. Large crowds mobbed Hollywood actor Gerard Butler as he lit the cauldron in the Greek city of Sparta despite repeated warnings for spectators not to attend because of coronavirus. That forced … Read more
2020 OLYMPIC GAMES The Olympic torch relay in Greece was cancelled on Friday March 13 – just a day after the flame was lit in Olympia. Large crowds mobbed Hollywood actor Gerard Butler as he lit the cauldron in the Greek city of Sparta despite repeated warnings for spectators not to attend because of coronavirus. That forced … Read more
The Tokyo Olympics should be postponed, according to a senior member of the Japan Olympic Committee, adding her voice to a growing chorus calling for Tokyo 2020 to be delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. ‘It should be postponed under the current situation where athletes can’t be well prepared,’ Kaori Yamaguchi, a JOC executive board … Read more
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledges the Olympics will go ahead as planned despite other high-profile sporting events falling victim to coronavirus pandemic Abe said the Tokyo Olympics would go ahead as scheduled in July this year Donald Trump suggested yesterday that they should be postponed by a year Japan has so far reported more … Read more
2020 OLYMPIC GAMES In doubt The scale of the outbreak in Japan saw senior International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound describe the disease as ‘the new war’ threatening Tokyo 2020 and he warned the Games may have to be cancelled if the virus was still around by May. Olympic organisers told athletes to train as normal … Read more
Cancelling Tokyo 2020 is ‘inconceivable’, Japan’s Olympic minister says… but warns the IOC will have to make ‘an appropriate decision’ Seiko Hashimoto said International Olympic Committee to make ‘final decision’ She added that from the ‘viewpoint of athletes’ a cancellation is ‘inconceivable’ Coronavirus epidemic has infected 581 and been linked to 12 deaths in Japan … Read more
Olympic committee president insists cancelling or postponing Tokyo 2020 was not even discussed during key meeting today An Olympic meeting was held on Wednesday but cancellation wasn’t discussed Japan could lose more than £10billion if the Games were to be cancelled Organisers insist the Games will happen but doubts have grown in recent weeks By … Read more
2020 OLYMPIC GAMES In doubt The scale of the outbreak in Japan saw senior International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound describe the disease as ‘the new war’ threatening Tokyo 2020 and he warned the Games may have to be cancelled if the virus was still around by May. Olympic organisers told athletes to train as normal … Read more
It’s hard not to feel a sense of impending doom when reading about the coronavirus infection that is rapidly sweeping the globe. Figures show it has killed more than 3,000 and infected almost 90,000 people in at least 65 countries. The majority of infections and deaths are in the Hubei province of China, where the never-before-seen … Read more
Hundreds of flights have been cancelled. Tourists are stranded, quarantined in their hotels. World stock markets are in freefall, and there are reports of desperate shoppers stockpiling crates of supplies – from nappies to medicines to toilet roll. Sales of surgical spirit have surged and Boots announced it has sold out of anti-bacterial hand gel. There’s … Read more
‘Topless Tongan’ who wowed crowds at two summer and winter Olympics qualifies for his third Games in Tokyo Pita Taufatofua turned heads after oiling chiselled torso during past Olympics He will represent Tonga in taekwondo and potentially kayaking this year Also hinted that he wants to try and compete in canoeing in Tokyo this year … Read more
Hundreds of flights have been cancelled. Tourists are stranded, quarantined in their hotels. World stock markets are in freefall, and there are reports of desperate shoppers stockpiling crates of supplies – from nappies to medicines to toilet roll. Sales of surgical spirit have surged and Boots announced it has sold out of anti-bacterial hand gel. There’s … Read more