FILE PHOTO: A woman takes a photograph in front of the giant Olympic rings at the waterfront area at Odaiba Marine Park in Tokyo, Japan, March 22, 2020. REUTERS/Issei Kato(Reuters) – New Zealand Olympic and Paralympic athletes support a postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the New Zealand Olympic Committee said on…
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Why is Olympic decision taking so long and what will the fallout be?
Could the sun be setting on the 2020 Olympic Games?Even the Olympics is not immune. It now seems almost certain that Tokyo 2020 will be postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the world.But as the IOC gives itself another four weeks to mull over a delay, what forces are at play behind the biggest…
The Olympic sport that influences my lab leadership style
A coxswain steers, coordinates and encourages: Leanne Hodson (right) is shown here at the 2017 World Masters Games, Lake Karapiro, New Zealand. Credit: Jac Rush I was a teenager in New Zealand when I started rowing after I watched it on television during the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984. I was in awe of how…
Mo Farah: Olympic champion says new questions over Alberto Salazar are ‘not fair’
Salazar (centre) alongside Farah (right) and American training partner Galen Rupp at the London 2012 OlympicsMo Farah says fresh questions raised in a BBC Panorama investigation over his relationship with his banned former coach Alberto Salazar are “depressing”.The four-time Olympic champion, who left the Nike Oregon Project headed by Salazar in 2017, has never failed…