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Japan’s cycling samura is ready for the Olympics

The Frenchman Benoît Vêtu is the head coach of the Japanese national cycling team. After winning the gold medal at the 2016 Olympics in Rio with the Chinese women's sprint team, he will try to reproduce the performance with the Japanese team - this time at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, which begins on July 23. at considerable cost of the Japanese to shine in Tokyo. We profile them as well as the sport Keirin, a bike path event that is very popular in Japan and which generates large sums of money thanks to betting. .

In Tokyo, the Olympics are being prepared between a state of emergency

The Tokyo Olympics start in less than two weeks, and it has been decided that most events will be held behind closed doors. For foreign athletes and journalists, it is about quarantine, even if you are 100% vaccinated. For the Japanese, of whom only 16.8% are, the goal is to minimize the risk of contamination and an explosion in the number of cases of Covid-19 in the country. The decision to refrain from spectators is a first in Olympic history. There will therefore be no one in almost all the venues for the Olympic Games…

Tokyo welcomes Olympic flame without fans, in

The Olympic flame arrived in Tokyo on Friday, but with the public staying away at a low-key welcoming ceremony due to fears of coronavirus, the day after a "heartbreaking" announcement that spectators would be banned from most gaming events. On a rainy morning exactly two weeks before the inauguration of the biggest sporting…

a Ugandan quarantine delegation in Japan

A first part of the Ugandan delegation, which arrived in Tokyo for the Olympics on June 19, 2021, was placed in quarantine after a positive fall of Covid-19, the Japanese authorities announced on June 22. This is the first positive case of a participant in the Olympics (July 23 - August 8) when the Australian softball team was the first foreign delegation to arrive in Japan on June 1.…

African athletes relieved that it exists

Local spectators will be able to participate in the Olympic Games (July 23-August 8), announced the organizers of Tokyo 2021. For African athletes who will participate in these Olympics, can count on the support of an audience, even very limited because of Covid- 19, is a relief. The 68,000 seats at Tokyo Olympic Stadium are far…