The Games started with Japan’s 8-1 win over Australia in the opening round of the women’s softball tournament.
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“We will like to have international spectators there,” Juan Antonio Samaranch, the head of the IOC coordination commission for the Games, said Wednesday at the IOC session in Tokyo.
Officials announced a further nine positive cases among those linked to the Games on Tuesday, taking the overall number of people infected since the start of July to 71.
Three softball and six women’s football matches are scheduled for Wednesday.
Asked at a news conference if the Games might still be cancelled amid rising COVID-19 cases, Toshiro Muto said he would keep an eye on infection numbers and hold discussions with organisers if necessary.
In the game arranged to prepare both sides for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics, the Americans were totally dominant of the D’Tigress
Davronbek Rakhmatullaev, 30, who had entered the stadium as staff to provide meals to the press, is suspected of sexually assaulting the woman in her 20s at seats and in an aisle at the venue around 9 p.m. Friday, the police said.
This was revealed in a video clip from Tokyo by Chika Chukwumerije, a member of the Nigeria Taekwondo Federation.
In this exhibition game, the Nigerian senior male basketball side which on Saturday beat world leaders U.S. 90-87 failed to make it three wins in a row.
The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja.
The Minister made this disclosure on Monday while addressing the plenary meeting with National Sports Federations for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja
World No 3 Halep has not played since suffering a calf injury at the Italian Open last month
Those adopted by the Governor include Favour Ofili, Blessing Okagbare, Divine Oduduru and Raymond Ekevwo.
The petition was signed by 350,000 people over nine days.
Nadal, the 20-time Grand Slam champion from Spain, is a two-time Olympic gold medallist, having won the singles event in Beijing and the doubles eight years later at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
To this end, a number of athletics meetings have been secured in the United States of America while a five-nation relay meeting is also on the card to hold in Nigeria before the window for qualification closes on June 29, 2021.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the tournament is scheduled to run from July 21 to August 7.
There are now just 99 days until the competition is scheduled to begin, but there are fears it may have to be scrapped with COVID cases once again rising in Japan.
Listed among the 73 men competing at the WSQT and seeded number two behind England’s Liam Pitchford, Aruna on Sunday fell to Russian sensation Vladimir Sidorenko 4-2 (11-3, 11-13, 11-6, 9-11, 4-11, 7-11) to miss out from picking his ticket from WSQT.
Though much of Japan is under a state of emergency due to a third wave of COVID-19 infections, Tokyo organisers have consistently vowed to press ahead with the Games scheduled to open on July 23 after having been postponed in March last year.