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TOKYO: Kaede Maegawa of Japan competes in the women's long jump - T63 category during a para-athletics test event for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics at the National Stadium in Tokyo yesterday. - AFPn

Japan's Osaka 'not sure' Olympics should happen as doubts grow
TOKYO: Ryuji Miura of Japan competes and sets a national record in the men's 3000m steeple-chase during an athletics test event for the Tokyo Olympics at the National Stadium in Tokyo on Sunday. - AFPn

Fake cheers, empty seats: Tokyo gives glimpse of COVID-era Olympics
SAPPORO: A volunteer (right) holds a placard asking people to refrain from watching the competition to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus while an athlete (center) competes in the half-marathon race which doubles as a test event for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, in Sapporo on May 5, 2021. - AFPnn

Nothing can stop Olympics from going ahead: IOC's Coates
TOKYO: International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach (on screen) speaks as Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee president Seiko Hashimoto listens during a five-party meeting of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo yesterday. - AFPn

Tokyo 2020 organizers delay decision on local spectators until June
RIO DE JANEIRO: In this file photo taken on Aug 11, 2016, USA's Michael Phelps (left) and Singapore's Joseph Schooling react during a swimming event at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium. - AFP n

After humbling Phelps, Schooling seeks another shock at Tokyo Olympics
KIEV: Anna Ilina, a member of the Ukrainian Olympic shooting team for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, flanked by the country's Health Minister Maksym Stepanov, receives a dose of China's CoronaVac vaccine yesterday. - AFP n

Top Japanese politician says virus could force Olympics cancellation
TOKYO: A man sits on a rock in front of the Olympic rings at the Odaiba waterfront in Tokyo on Monday. – AFPn

How the first Tokyo Olympics changed the face of Japan
TOCHIGI: This handout photograph taken and released on March 28, 2021 by Tokyo 2020 shows a Japanese torchbearer carrying the Olympic torch on a boat during the torch relay in the eastern city of Tochigi. - AFPn

Olympic torch relay barred from public roads across Japan's Osaka
SEOUL: People watch a television screen showing a news report about North Korea's decision not to participate in the Tokyo Olympics due to the Covid-19 pandemic, at a railway station in Seoul yesterday. - AFPn

North Korea says will not go to Olympics over COVID fears
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