The Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony is set to be held in the Tokyo Olympic Stadium this week on Friday. However, Olympics organizing committee fired the director of the show on the eve of the event over a decades-old skit referencing the Holocaust. Kentaro Kobayashi’s comments in a video of a comedy sketch from 1998 emerged online very abruptly. This sparked ...
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Renowned female Ugandan sprinter Shida Leni has qualified to represent the country at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. Leni made the cut after impressing at last month’s races in Italy and Switzerland where she amassed enough ranking points. The 27-year-old ran 400m in just under 52 seconds at the World Athletics Continental tour in Geneva (51.81). This happened right before she ...
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The Liverpool star Mohamed Salah might possibly miss out on the Tokyo Olympics in Japan. This is according to Egypt’s FA president Ahmed Megahed. There were speculations that Salah might be one of the three overage players on Egypt’s U-23 team for the Tokyo games that start on July 22. However, Ahmed says Liverpool is not willing to let the ...
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With the delayed Tokyo Olympics in Japan slated to happen between July to August this year, Bomber’s Uganda’s national boxing team have a reason to smile. This was after a trio from the Bombers led by national team captain Shadir Musa Bwogi Kimera, Catherine Nanziri and David Ssemujju all received a financial boost in order to strengthen their preparations for ...
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