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Filipina boxer Irish Magno took a win at the start of the Tokyo Olympics campaign on Sunday at the Kokugikan Stadium in the Japanese capital after beating Kenya’s Christine Ongare. In their women’s flyweight contest, Magno, ranked 25th in the world, engaged the 17th seeded Ongare in the first round and landed the more accurate shots to get the round. Magno’s dominance continued in Round 2 even as she remained the better boxer in […]
SAITAMA, Japan (AFP) — A USA team led by 11-time NBA All-Star Kevin Durant were beaten 83-76 by France on Sunday, snapping an Olympic winning streak stretching back to the 2004 Athens Games. France, with a team containing NBA players including Rudy Gobert and Evan Fournier, limited Durant to just 10 points in the first-round game. Durant sat out most of the third quarter with foul trouble and when it mattered, he was unable to […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte gave an additional P100,000 allowance for each of Philippine athletes joining the Tokyo Olympics and the Paralympics. This was on top of the $1,000 allowance given by the Philippine Sports Commission. President Rodrigo Duterte’s additional support was approved upon the recommendation of Senator Christopher “Bong” Go, the chair of the Senate Committee on Sports, and the PSC. The following are the Philippine athletes participating at the Olympics who would […]
By Ivan Stewart Saldajeno Philippine News Agency Nesthy Petecio’s quest for a Tokyo Olympics gold got off to a good start on Saturday after she beat Marcelat Sakobi Matshu of Congo in the first round of the women’s featherweight boxing event at the Kokugikan Arena in the Japanese capital. After a tight first round, Petecio showed her dominant form in the final six minutes to edge Matshu. In the unanimous decision favoring Petecio, one of […]
Chinese shooter Yang Qian won the first gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday as the coronavirus-hit Games braced for a potentially disruptive tropical storm heading towards the Japanese capital. Yang snatched a dramatic last-shot victory from Russia’s Anastasiia Galashina in the women’s 10-metre air rifle as attention switched from the troubled build-up to the event to the sporting action. Elsewhere on the first full day of competition, Japanese gymnastics star Kohei Uchimura crashed […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka lit the Olympic cauldron as the Tokyo Games opened on Friday after a year’s delay due to the pandemic and with the threat of coronavirus hanging over the competition. Osaka lifted the torch to the gleaming cauldron, which had unfurled at the top of a ramp representing Mount Fuji, in the highlight of a ceremony that was stripped back over virus fears. Japan’s Emperor Naruhito officially […]
Hundreds of drones form the Tokyo 2020 emblem and then a globe during the Olympics opening ceremony. © Agence France-Presse
The Tokyo Olympics were declared open in an eerily empty stadium on Friday after defying a year’s pandemic delay and lingering coronavirus threats that will make them perhaps the most unusual Games in history. Japan’s Emperor Naruhito made the announcement against the backdrop of thousands of vacant seats at Tokyo’s 68,000-capacity Olympic Stadium, after Covid-19 forced organisers to ban spectators at all but a handful of venues. “I declare open the Games of Tokyo,” said […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japanese Olympic super fan Kyoko Ishikawa celebrates an aerobatic performance by the Japanese air force on the day of the opening ceremony. The 51-year-old businesswoman is determined not to let coronavirus spoil the fun as the Games land in her home city, despite organisers banning fans from most events. She’ll put on her signature high-energy performance, cheering and chanting in a traditional Japanese outfit, as she watches on TV in the […]
Hous before the opening ceremony marks the official start of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, the Olympic Torch Relay comes to an end in the Japanese capital source: AFPTV
Tokyo residents gather outside Tokyo’s Olympic stadium to enjoy the atmosphere on the day of opening ceremony. “It really feels like the Olympics is going to start,” says one Tokyo resident. Agence France Presse https://youtu.be/stZbrEjnn6A
Streets outside the Japan National Stadium are crowded as Tokyo enters the final hours before the official opening of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. SOURCE: AFPTV https://youtu.be/dTh2du7PGdg
