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Olympic 2020 Tickets: IOC to name Refugee Olympic 2020 Team for Tokyo Olympic in June

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) plans to announce the Refugee Olympic Team for Tokyo Olympic in June, with 55 athletes seeking to compete at the Games. The Refugee Olympic Team debuted at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, where 10 athletes were selected to compete across athletics, judo and swimming events.

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A total of 37 refugee athlete scholarship holders were confirmed to be in contention for Olympic 2020 back in 2019. The IOC has said Olympic Solidarity is currently supporting 55 scholarship holders, who are training in the hope of competing at the rescheduled Games in the Japanese capital. The athletes come from 13 countries and are hosted by 21 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) across all five continents.

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Egypt, France, Germany, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Luxembourg, Portugal, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom are hosting athletes. The athletes represent the sports of athletics, aquatics, badminton, boxing, canoeing, cycling, judo, karate, taekwondo, shooting, weightlifting and wrestling.

"Since the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, Olympic Solidarity has invested more than $2 million (£1.4 million/€1.6 million) in support for refugee Olympic scholarship holders preparing for the Olympic Games," said IOC President Thomas Bach.

The final composition of the IOC Refugee Olympic Team will be announced at the Executive Board in June. It will be based on several criteria. This includes their sporting performance, their confirmed refugee status, as well as balanced representation across sports, regions and genders. World Refugee Day falls on June 20, with the team likely to be announced to coincide with the date.

The IOC added that an agreement has been established with the International Testing Agency to make sure athletes will be tested before the selection. Athletes and their coaches will also be able to access online training around anti-doping, safeguarding and general athlete welfare in the lead-up to the Games.

The IOC has promised to continue to help the refugee athletes who will not go to Tokyo and to support the members of the team after the Olympic Games through various Olympic Solidarity programmers, including helping with their athlete career transition. An update was also provided to the IOC Executive Board on the Olympic Refuge Foundation, formed after the Refugee Olympic Team's appearance at Rio 2016.

The IOC said 200,000 young people in six countries are benefiting from sports programmers designed to improve their well-being and social inclusion. The organization cited a recently launched Uganda-based project called "Game Connect", which is supported by a consortium of partners, including the Ugandan Olympic Committee, the Association of Volunteers in International Service (AVSI), UNHCR, Youth Sport Uganda and Right to Play.

Earlier this month, the IOC confirmed the Olympic Refuge Foundation had received a donation from the French Government to support refugees and migrants through sport in France, to launch an initial activity programmed in the Paris region during 2021.

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Olympic Tickets: Iran's Hadipour opts against ACL surgery to keep Olympic 2020 dream alive

Two-time World Taekwondo Championships medalist Armin Hadipour has suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) - but still plans to compete at the Olympic 2020 Olympics. The Tehran Times quotes Iran's coach Fariborz Askari as saying Hadipour will not undergo surgery in the hope of being able to take part at this year's Olympic 2020 Games.

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"Hadipour will miss the Olympics if he undergoes the surgery," said Askari.

After consulting with the doctors, we’ve decided to keep him fit for the Olympics without the surgery. Mohammad Bagheri Motamed won a silver medal at London 2012 under the same circumstances.

Hadipour won a bronze medal in the men's under-54-kilogram division at the 2019 World Championships in Manchester. Two years previous, at the World Championships in Muju, Hadipour won silver. The Tokyo 2020 Olympics appeared to be out of the question when Alizadeh first left Iran, but the Games' postponement has allowed enough time to make the move official.

Iran's team travelling to Sofia includes world silver medalists Armin Hadipour, Sajjad Mardani, Soroush Ahmadi and Mirhashem Hosseini, Asian Games silver medalist Amir Mohammad Bakhshi, and Mehran Barkhordari. Hadiour, who won bronze, and runner-up Ahmadi were among Iran's three medalists at the 2019 World championships.

Now 26, Hadipour also won three consecutive Universiade gold medals - at Gwangju 2015, Taipei 2017 and Naples 2019 - and was one of Iran's brightest medal hopes for Tokyo 2020 before news of this injury. Iran's taekwondo players have recently been training with their Bulgarian counterparts, ahead of travelling to Bulgaria for next month's Sofia Open.

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Olympic Tickets: Croatia dramatically claims final Tokyo Olympic men’s water polo berth

Croatia dramatically secured the final place in the men’s water polo tournament at the Olympic 2020 Games after beating Russia in a penalty shoot-out that required 15 rounds to find a winner.

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Russia had a penalty shot to win it during the fifth round of shots but Croatian goalkeeper Toni Popadic came up with a crucial save to continue proceedings. Nine rounds of shots later Roman Shepelev missed for the Russians, with Josip Vrlic scoring the next penalty for Croatia to give them victory in the bronze medal match at the qualification tournament, as well as the bigger prize of a place at Olympic 2020.

Russia earlier led in the contest at half-time by 7-6 before Croatia took the lead in the third period. Croatia was unable to close the match out in regulation play and Russia came up with an equalizing goal with 16 seconds to go to force the dramatic shoot-out, which meant the final score in the match was 25-24 after penalties.

Olympic Tickets: Croatia’s victory

Croatia’s victory means they have qualified for seven straight Olympic men’s water polo tournaments, with their best result coming when they claimed gold at London 2012 after beating Italy 8-6. The final of the qualification tournament was contested between Montenegro and Greece, with the two countries having confirmed their qualification for Olympic 2020 yesterday by reaching the showpiece match.

Despite there being less at stake it was a competitive and tight affair, with Greece holding a narrow 8-6 lead after three quarters. In the final period, Dusan Matkovic scored a hat-trick for Montenegro as they netted four straight goals to give them a 10-9 victory. Two more placement matches took place on the final day of the competition to decide positions in the rankings. In the battle for fifth hosts, the Netherlands turned a three-goal deficit heading into the final quarter into a one-goal win as they triumphed 10-9 against France.

Georgia wins against Canada and Tokyo Olympic

In the battle for seventh Georgia ran out comfortable 18-10 winners against Canada, thanks to a second period where Georgia scored a tournament-high eight goals in a single period. Following the conclusion of the action at the Zwencentrum in Rotterdam, the draws for the men’s and women’s Tokyo 2020 water polo tournaments took place.

In the men’s tournament Group, A comprises hosts Japan, South Africa, the United States, Hungary, Greece and Italy while Group B features Australia, Croatia, Serbia, Spain, Kazakhstan and Montenegro. In the women’s tournament.

Group, A comprises Australia, South Africa, the Netherlands, Spain and Canada while Group B features hosts Japan, Russia, China, Hungary and the United States. The water polo competition in Tokyo 2020 is scheduled to take place at the Tatsumi Water Polo Centre from July 24 to August 8.

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Olympic 2020 Tickets: Olympic medalist Hashimoto appointed Tokyo Olympic President

Seiko Hashimoto has been appointed Tokyo Olympic President after accepting the vacant role following the resignation of Yoshiro Mori last week.

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Hashimoto said she had met with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and had stepped down as Olympics Minister before taking up the position as head of the Organizing Committee for the postponed Games. The 56-year-old Olympic speed skating bronze medalist had been proposed for the job by the Candidate Selection Committee tasked with choosing Mori's successor but was reportedly initially reluctant to accept.

"I will spare no effort for the success of the Tokyo Games," Hashimoto said.

Appointing a woman to the role is a highly significant move following the departure of Mori, who resigned after causing an uproar with sexist comments about women. International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach said appointing a female to lead the Organizing Committee "sends a very important signal about gender equality".

Hashimoto, who had previously faced allegations of sexual harassment at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, was reportedly one of three candidates shortlisted by the Selection Committee. Japanese media reported Yasuhiro Yamashita, the head of the Japanese Olympic Committee and gold medalist in judo at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.

The Selection Committee, headed by 85-year-old Canon chief executive Fujio Mitarai, fast-tracked its process to find a replacement for Mori, with the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Olympics set to open in just over five months. It was established after the 83-year-old former Japanese Prime Minister bowed to widespread pressure and resigned as Olympic 2020 President following his sexist remarks when he suggested women talk too much.

As the former Minister of State for Gender Equality and Minister in Charge of Women’s Empowerment, I look forward to her using the Games as a platform to advance the diversity and inclusion agenda, not just in terms of gender, but sexuality, race and, importantly, persons with disabilities.

The sexism row marked the latest crisis for organizers of the first postponed Olympic and Paralympic Games and came amid renewed concerns over whether the event would go ahead following a surge in COVID-19 cases across the world.

Hashimoto's seven Olympic Games are a record for a Japanese woman, after her career as a speed skater and a cyclist. She was best known for speed skating, competing on the ice at four Winter Olympics and winning bronze over 1500 meters in Albertville in 1992.

On the bike, Hashimoto competed at three Summer Olympics without winning a medal. Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, who publicly criticized Mori's comments before he resigned, Hashimoto became embroiled in her controversy at Sochi 2014 when she was seen kissing and embracing figure skater Daisuke Takahashi at a party.

Hashimoto denied the allegations and Takahashi said he had not been harassed, although she later issued an apology. Back then as well as today, I am still reflecting on myself and what I have done and what it has evolved into.

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Olympic 2020 Tickets: Dutch and Russians stage gutsy comebacks at Olympic water polo qualifier

Montenegro and Russia are the last two undefeated sides at the men's Olympic water polo qualifier in Rotterdam, after the latter produced a brilliant retaliation to defeat Croatia.

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Russia still branded as such by the International Swimming Federation (FINA) contempt World Anti-Doping Agency authorizations - trailed 11-13 in the final retro, but scored three unrequited goals to defeat the 2016 Olympic runners-up and change top of Group B.

The Russians have three wins and one draw, leaving them in pole position to win the group. The Dutch hosts also shaped a remarkable retaliation, recovering from 5-9 down to draw 11-11 with France. Fewer than three seconds remained when The Netherlands scored their final equalizer, winning the fourth quarter 6-2.

Romania beat Germany 12-7 in the group's other match, eliminating the Germans. A winner-take-all game between Romania and France - level on three points - will decide who will be the final team to advance from Group B, with Croatia, Russia and the host nation all through already.

France's goal difference is better than Romania's. In Group A, already-eliminated Brazil fell 12-8 to Georgia and Montenegro beat Greece 8-4. With Turkey ineligible because of a coronavirus eruption, there were only two games played, and Montenegro, Georgia, Greece and Canada are all finished to the quarter-finals.

Montenegro Rio 2016 fourth-place finishers - will top the group if they avoid defeat versus Georgia tomorrow. The tournament's top three teams will qualify for this year's Olympic 2020 Games in Tokyo.

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Olympic 2020 Tickets: Tokyo Olympic to be broadcast on free-to-air television in Kenya

The Tokyo Olympic Games are set to be broadcast on free-to-air television in Kenya after an agreement was struck between sports marketing company Infront and Kenyan media organization The Standard Group PLC. As part of the agreement, coverage of the Tokyo Olympics, scheduled to take place from July 23 to August 8, will be broadcast on KTN, a free to view the commercial channel in the country.

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Speaking about the new deal, Standard Group’s chief executive Orlando Lyomu said: "The Olympic Games are the pinnacle of the sport for many athletes and it is only right that millions of fans watching from home can be a part of that celebration.

Ensuring That the Future of the Olympic Movement Remains Strong

This is about ensuring that the future of the Olympic Movement remains strong in Kenya and our free-to-air coverage on KTN will contribute greatly to this objective. We are committed to nurturing and supporting the development of sports talent among Kenya's youth and are working with various partners to accomplish this.

This agreement with Infront to broadcast the Olympic Games is therefore of major significance in inspiring our young sportsmen and women to aspire for the Olympic dream. The Standard Group owns four television channels in Kenya - KTN Home, KTN News, KTN Farmers and BTV.

The deal also covers radio coverage of Tokyo Olympic with The Standard Group owning three radio stations in the country - Radio Maisha, Spice FM and Vibes Radio. Julien Tunisian, senior vice-president of summer sports for Infront said: "Infront is delighted to partner with The Standard Group to ensure extensive coverage of the Olympic Games in Kenya, a country which has delivered so many memorable moments at past editions.

"We are looking forward to securing other ground-breaking partnerships with African broadcasters to maximize the impact of the upcoming Olympic Games Tokyo Olympic in sub-Saharan Africa."

Anne-Sophie Voumard, IOC vice-president for broadcast and media rights added: "We are pleased to be working with Infront to secure Olympic Games broadcast coverage across 46 African territories, including this new agreement in Kenya.

The IOC redistributes 90 per cent of the revenue we generate through our commercial agreements to support sport around the world, including in Africa. At the Rio 2016 Olympics, Kenya won a total of 13 medals, all of which came in athletics. The haul consisted of six golds, six silvers and one bronze medal.

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Olympic 2020 Tickets: Kenyan boxing coach thanks NOC for support on road to Tokyo Olympic

Kenyan boxing head coach Musa Benjamin has thanked the country's National Olympic Committee for their financial support on the road to Tokyo Olympic.

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Two Kenyan boxers have already booked their places at this year's rearranged Games through last year's African qualifier in Senegal - Nick Okoth in the men's featherweight and Christine Ongare in the women's flyweight.

The team was known as the "hit squad" is hoping more will qualify through the World Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Paris, which was cancelled last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and is now tentatively planned for June. Benjamin said the National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOCK) had been with the team every step of the way.

"NOCK has walked with us all through," he said to Citizen Digital.

They gave us the strength and conditioning coach that is in camp, for now, the nutritionist was also availed by them together with a psychologist. They gave us ring boots and other practicing materials which will help us a lot. 

"The players are very happy because these materials are not cheap. 

We thank NOCK so much for boosting our efforts in trying to send more boxers to the Olympics in Tokyo. Kenya's team is currently training in capital city Nairobi. Boxing is the only sport the country has won an Olympic medal in outside the traditional Kenyan specialty of athletics and in particular long-distance running.

The country's boxers have made the podium seven times, including gold for welterweight Robert Wangila at Seoul 1988. Benjamin's comments will be a boost for the NOCK which endured a turbulent build-up to the Rio 2016 Summer Games.

Several top officials ended up in court after claims money meant for Kenyan athletes in Brazil was misused, with missing kit among the allegations. Earlier this month, the International Boxing Association (AIBA) held a continental forum online and in Nairobi. New AIBA President Umar Kremlev attended the event in the capital in person.

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Olympic 2020 Tickets: Indian Government to vaccinate all athletes bound for Tokyo Olympic

Indian Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju has claimed the country's athletes heading to the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo will all be vaccinated against COVID-19. According to The Indian Express, Rijiju said the vaccination would be given first to medical and security people, but all athletes would be inoculated in time for Tokyo Olympic. 

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"The Government’s policy is very clear," he said. 

First of all, the vaccine will be provided to the warriors. the medical and security people. Our Olympic-bound athletes and their trainers will be provided priority in our Ministry but overall priority is set by the Ministry of Health.

They will all be vaccinated before they go for the Olympics, whoever goes. We will also take into account the time between two doses and everything else. India currently has 74 athletes qualified for the Olympics and 24 for the Paralympics, although the qualification is still ongoing in numerous sports.  

Tokyo Olympic was postponed to 2021 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the Olympics now scheduled from July 23 to August and the Paralympics set to follow from August 24 to September 5. Uncertainty continues to linger over the staging of the Games later this year as many countries are battling to curb rising infection rates.

While the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Tokyo Olympic have stressed vaccines will not be a "silver bullet" for the Games, their development has nonetheless boosted hopes of competition going ahead.   The IOC has repeatedly said it will not jump the queue ahead of those who need a vaccination most and has insisted it will not be mandatory for athletes to compete at the Games.

A playbook released by the IOC and the International Paralympic Committee for International Federation and technical officials has reiterated vaccines will not be mandatory for participants to attend Tokyo Olympic, with measures such as frequent testing, masks and social distancing set to be in place instead. 

Hungary and Serbia began inoculating their Olympic athletes last week, while Israel’s Olympic Committee says it has already vaccinated half its Olympic delegation and will complete the process by the end of May. Other National Olympic Committees from countries such as Canada, Britain and Italy have decided not to ask for their athletes to be given priority for vaccinations.      

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Olympic 2020 Tickets: Canadian archers receive an exemption to train in lockdown ahead of Tokyo Olympic qualifiers

Canadian archers aiming to qualify for the Tokyo Olympic Games took part in a five-day training camp during a lockdown. Tough restrictions are in place across Canada as the country battles to curb surging coronavirus cases, hampering athletes’ preparations for the rescheduled Games.

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But Archery Canada said it received an exemption from the Government of Ontario to enable the team to hold a camp in the Cambridge and Kitchener area at the end of January. Thirteen athletes and four support staff attended the camp which was held under strict health and safety protocols.

According to Archery Canada, the process included a "lengthy pre-camp routine" involving two separate COVID-19 tests in the space of four days ahead of the event.

"We are grateful for the privilege of being able to prepare for the Olympics while in lockdown," said Alan Brahms, high-performance advisor for Archery Canada.

This was made possible by establishing sophisticated hygiene and safety protocols and a close-knit testing and monitoring system. The support of many different parties and partners, including the financial support of the Government of Canada, and the support of the public health authority, the City of Cambridge, the Region of Waterloo, the Cambridge Hotel and Conference Centre, the YMCA, the ComDev training facility, and the Canadian Sport Institute Ontario was tremendous."

Crispin Duenas remains the only Canadian archer to have booked his place at the Olympics in the men’s individual recurve after winning gold at the 2019 Pan American Games. Canada’s women's recurve team are currently preparing for the Olympic qualification tournament, scheduled to be held in Mexico from March 21 to 29.

"Under the conditions, this was anything but a normal training camp for our group," said Shawn Riggs, Canada’s recurve coach.

I am glad to see how everyone executed our protocols and demonstrated collective accountability to keep our environment protected. We must prepare ourselves as best as possible for the year ahead and this was a key component of that preparation and we learned a lot.

"From a competitive point of view, we saw some strong results and had four men over 670 and six men over 660, which is something we have not seen.

It is an indicator that we are building a broader group in the men’s team, which can be competitive at the world level. Although our arrow average in match and team round play was not quite where it needed to be, it was a good assessment of where our men’s team is positioned coming out of a month’s long environment that saw restricted training opportunities.

Virginie Chenier, who was one of four women to take part in the camp, said she benefitted from the event after coming through quarantine. While Mariessa (Pinto) and myself had to manage through intra-provincial travel and an additional four-day quarantine in the hotel before the start, this was a great opportunity for the four women to come together to compete and also just to train with a larger group," said Chenier.

Everybody has been missing this, and once everybody received their second test result, we were able to somewhat get back to normal over five days of quality training and competing. Canada Archery is set to stage a men’s selection camp this month and in March before the Archery World Cup is scheduled to start in Guatemala in April.

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Olympic 2020 Tickets: Pre-Tokyo Tokyo bubble proposed for US, Australian and Spanish basketball squads

A pre-Olympic bubble in Las Vegas for the US, Australia and Spain to train and play exhibition games against one another before leaving for the Tokyo Olympics is being proposed by USA Basketball.

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With National Basketball Association (NBA) players expected to make up the core of all three teams and the league's playoffs scheduled to take place from May 22 to July 22, such an environment would allow players to limit travel and possible exposure to COVID-19 before going to Japan.

"On the surface it makes a lot of sense," USA Basketball’s managing director Jerry Colangelo told ESPN.

We have to be flexible. Spain, the reigning World Cup champions, have five current NBA players who have played on the national team in the past - Marc Gasol, Ricky Rubio, Serge Ibaka, Juancho Hernan Gómez and Willy Hernan Gómez.

The Australians named their Olympic roster pool this week, and it has 10 current NBA players, including Ben Simmons, Patty Mills, Joe Ingles, Dante Exum and Matisse Thybulle. Team USA is tentatively planning to open the training camp from July 4, while the NBA playoffs are taking place.

Colangelo added that USA Basketball has petitioned the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Basketball Federation, which runs the Olympic basketball tournament, to change the rules for when rosters for the Games must be submitted.

Usually, the rosters must be set several weeks in advance, but with the NBA playoffs running until three days before the US is scheduled to play a first Olympic game, Colangelo is calling for changes. Team USA has asked to allow roster changes even during the Olympics as players may fly over late and join teams, Colangelo said. Colangelo is waiting to hear back from the governing bodies on the matter.

"These are not normal times," he said.

Rosters by a certain date doesn't make any sense. What we're seeking is flexibility to substitute players very late and to get the best players on the court. It doesn't just apply to us but for all the countries. On Wednesday the IOC released its first set of Games guidelines which said athletes were not required to be vaccinated or to quarantine on arrival, but that they would have to undergo testing before and after their journey.

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Olympic Tickets: IWF finally confirms Romania faces an outright ban from Tokyo Olympic weightlifting

The prospect of Romania being banned outright from weightlifting at Tokyo 2020 has moved a step nearer after two anti-doping rule violations at the London 2012 Olympic Games were formally closed by the International Testing Agency (ITA).

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The news means that Romania’s fate is now in the hands of an independent panel which has already banned three nations outright from this year's re-arranged Olympic Games - Thailand, Egypt and Malaysia. Colombia and Vietnam, both of which have had three doping positives within the Olympic qualifying period, are also liable to suspension, though Colombia is appealing in the case of three athletes who say they ingested boldenone through tainted meat.

Russia and Iraq could also find themselves in trouble for multiple violations. Romania was already limited to sending only one male and one female athlete to Tokyo Olympic because of its doping record since the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.  Its top male lifter in the rankings, Nicolae Onica, was provisionally suspended last September after testing positive for anabolic steroids. After that suspension, no Romanian male was likely to make it through qualifying to Tokyo Olympic. 

But if the ban is confirmed as expected, Romania will lose a genuine medal chance in the women’s events. Loredana Toma, the European champion, stands fourth in the 64-kilogram rankings and her 249kg total early last year in Rome is the third-highest by any athlete in that class. In her absence, Maude Charron of Canada and Mattie Sasser of the United States could come into the reckoning.

Toma tested positive for stanozolol in her youth and served a two-year ban from 2014 when she was 19. Romania’s entire team of four at London 2012 came up positive for stanozolol in the retesting of stored samples conducted by the IOC. Florin Croitoru, ninth in the men’s 56kg, was first to be disqualified by the IOC, in May 2019.

Ten weeks ago, three more were disqualified, two of them medalists, by the IOC - Roxana Cocos, who forfeited her silver medal in the women’s 69kg, Razvan Martin, who lost a bronze in the men’s 69kg, and Gabriel Sincraian, who failed to post a total in the men’s 85kg. Sinclair was also disqualified at Rio 2016 and forfeited a bronze medal. Many within the sport believe that the IWF could have suspended Romania already under its Tbilisi Decision, taken in 2016, which ruled that any nation with three or more positives in the IOC retests should be banned for a year.

Nine nations served such a suspension in 2017 before any of Romania’s team came up positive. When the IOC closed the remaining three of Romania's London 2012 cases in late November, the IWF made no statement about whether the Tbilisi Decision would apply.

Christian Baumgartner, the former President of the German Weightlifting Federation, is still nominally the chair of the IWF’s Tbilisi Commission, on which the IWF Interim President Mike Irani also sits, or Sat.

Even in the latest statement by the IWF, there was no mention of it, or of the fact that Romania had "three or more" positives in IOC retests. Instead, it referred to Romania having had four athletes guilty of doping within 12 months, another offence that is punishable by suspension.

The two cases closed by the ITA, which is now responsible for all the IWF’s anti-doping procedures, are Martin and Sincraian. Martin’s suspension listed on the IWF website runs from 2025 to 2027, which suggests he may have committed another doping violation in the meanwhile, though none is listed.

Irani said, "It is deeply regrettable to see further anti-doping rule violations within weightlifting, but catching cheats is also clear proof that our efforts to protect clean athletes are having an impact.”

The Independent Member Federations Sanctioning Panel will now be asked to proceed with the case of the RWF, said the IWF statement. The total number of weightlifting positives in the IOC retests from Beijing 2008 and London 2012 is 61.

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Olympic 2020 Tickets: World Taekwondo toasts Para Taekwondo Day ahead of Tokyo Olympic debut

Para-taekwondo will be like nothing that has ever previously been seen at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. That’s the view of Olof Hansson, director of Para-taekwondo, as the sport celebrates Para-Taekwondo Day today.

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Today also marks the sixth anniversary since taekwondo was added to the Paralympic programmed for the first time. The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) announced Para-taekwondo would become the Paralympic Games’ first full-contact sport at a Governing Board meeting on January 31 in 2015. It was a historic moment for the sport which was created just 15 years ago and now stands on the brink of making its Paralympic debut.

It’s extremely exciting, Hansson told. It’s the biggest event that has ever happened to Para-taekwondo. Now we are just hoping to make a good showing and I am certain we will do because I believe this is a sport that is like nothing that has ever previously been seen on the Paralympic Games program.

It will play a major factor in the growth of Para-taekwondo in the coming years and we will see a lot more interest from National Paralympic Committees. The sport was already big before the inclusion in the Paralympic Games, but I believe that thanks to the work of our committees this has been further increased.

Para-taekwondo was poised to make its first appearance at a Paralympics last year only for Tokyo 2020 to be postponed to 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. But Hansson praised the response of World Taekwondo.

This is a project that I have been working on for quite a long time so it did take a few days to let it sink in that the Games weren’t happening in 2020, supposed Hansson. But that very quickly went away once we had contact from the IPC and started to find out more information.

Of course, it was a big hit to any sports organization involved in the Paralympic and Olympic 2020 Games. You are set for an event to happen at a certain date and it gets delayed by a year. But World Taekwondo has a very good leadership that has been able to restart and refocus the organization.

We have two wonderful committees connected to Para-taekwondo in the Para-Taekwondo Committee and the Classification Committee. They have been working very hard during 2020 to develop education programmers, to review rules and put us in the best possible position for the upcoming Games and the next Paralympic cycle.

The 2019 Para-Taekwondo World Championships nearly doubled in size from the event in 2017 and World Taekwondo expect that trend to continue at the ninth edition in Wuxi in China later this year.

World Taekwondo said fighters including Denmark’s Lisa Guessing and Britain’s Amy Truesdale had lined up lucrative endorsements, while world champions Viki Marchuk of Ukraine and Juan Diego Garcia Lopez of Mexico had won their country’s highest sporting awards. Last April also saw World Taekwondo launching its Kicking It at Home social media campaign which saw more than 725,000 people watch over 2,000 hours of Para athletes training at home.

"Throughout the whole COVID-19 period we have noticed that athletes have continued to post their training videos and stay active on social media," added Hansson.

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Olympic Tickets: US Olympic swimming team trials split into two due to COVID-19

USA Swimming, in partnership with the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC), has announced a revised schedule to split the 2020 US Olympic Team Trials into two competitions, with these acting as qualifiers for the Tokyo Olympics.

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These trials will be divided into two waves, respectively from June 4 to 7 and June 13 to 20. The second wave will be the sole qualifier for swimmers to make the US Olympic team. USA Swimming and USOPC decided in cooperation with the Omaha Sports Commission.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the trials have been split to reduce numbers and the risk of spreading the virus. A total of 1,305 athletes have qualified for the trials to date since the qualifying window opened on November 28 2018.

"Given the current environment, and the need to address concerns related to over-crowding in the athlete areas, warm-up pool and athlete seating areas, the decision was made to divide the event into two," said a USA Swimming statement.

USA Swimming chief executive Mike Unger added that the decision was taken based on the continuous spread of the virus.

"We undertook a thorough and methodical evaluation of the trials over the last several months and factored in several critical considerations in our decision," said Unger.

Our number one priority was to find a way to host trials in the safest possible environment while also giving the athletes the best opportunity to succeed. 

"While selecting the Olympic team for Tokyo is a critical goal for the trials, it is important to note that the experience gained at trials by some of the lower-seeded athletes has historically provided a great experience for future Olympic trials (and Games), which fueled our desire to host two events."

To keep numbers down, USA Swimming has adjusted the trials time standard to the current 41st seeded time, with athletes who have met or bettered those times automatically advancing to the second wave, meaning there will be a final field of approximately 750 athletes.

This qualifying window is set to stay open until May 30, with athletes already with the standard not being required to requalify. The Tokyo Olympics is scheduled to take place from July 23 to August 8 2021. To date, there have been more than 26 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States, resulting in the deaths of over 436,000 people.

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Olympic Tickets: Nyika to make a professional debut next month as boxer hones Tokyo Olympic preparations

Two-time Commonwealth Games boxing gold medalist David Nyika will make his professional debut next month as he prepares to compete at the postponed Tokyo Olympic Games. The 25-year-old will face Jesse Maio in an all-New Zealand bout next month.

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The fight will feature on the Joseph Parker and Junior Fa card at Spark Arena on February 27. Nyika has said the fight will form part of his preparation for the Olympic Games, which were postponed last year due to the coronavirus pandemic. Nyika is already assured of his place at the Games, having advanced through from the Asia-Oceania Olympic qualifier last year.

"It’s kind of made sense to take this opportunity and get more competition here in New Zealand," Nyika told Radio New Zealand.

The chances are the travel restrictions are going to cripple us, so getting a bit more variety is key for me and just getting as much experience as I can leading up to the Olympics. I've had 94 fights to date and I'd like to get to 100 before the Olympics, but that's unlikely unless I make it through to a gold medal match, which would be nice.

I've finished my apprenticeship in boxing and now it's time to start cashing-in. I've been a full-time amateur boxer for the last six years now and it hasn't got me anywhere financially, so I need to start making some moves and maybe looking abroad to see what opportunities there are overseas as well.

Nyika will make his professional debut in the cruiserweight division. He is due to contest the men’s heavyweight division at Tokyo Olympic, where he would become the first male New Zealand boxer to compete at the Olympics since Athens 2004.

Nyika has enjoyed success at the Commonwealth Games, winning light-heavyweight gold at Glasgow 2014. He secured gold four years later in the heavyweight division at Gold Coast 2018.

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Olympic Tickets: USA Basketball send out Tokyo Olympic invitations to 60 players amid NBA uncertainty

USA Basketball has reportedly sent out invitations to 60 players interested in competing at this year's postponed Olympic 2020 Games in Tokyo. The governing sent out the invitations to all of those who had expressed an interest at competing at Tokyo Olympic, including many of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) big names, according to ESPN.

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This contains Bam Adebayo of Miami Heat and Christian Wood of Houston Rockets. Who have awestruck during the current NBA season?  Miami Heat's Duncan Robinson, Zion Williamson of New Orleans Pelicans. Trae Young of Atlanta Hawks and Ja Morant of Memphis Grizzlies are also supposed to have been sent an invite. 

Elite NBA players like LeBron James, Stephen Curry and Devin Booker have all before specified their attention in on behalf of the United States team in the Japanese capital. A pool of amid 40 and 50 players will likely be exposed by USA Basketball in the coming weeks. The final American side for Rio 2016 was picked around six weeks beforehand the start of the Games.

The late start of the 2020-2021 NBA season could cause an assortment headache for US basketball coach Gregg Popovich, though. The campaign began on December 22, with the NBA Finals, which crown the season's champions, arranged to take place from July 8 to 22 - the day before the start of the Sports in Tokyo.

Men's basketball is set to twitch on July 25, but the NBA Finals, a best-of-seven series, could finish a week beforehand the Sports if concluded in the minimum four sports. NBA players have been a main of Olympic basketball tournaments since the suitability rules were changed to allow them to contribute at the Sports before Barcelona 1992.

An American side full of NBA stars and led by the likes of Michael Jordan, nicknamed the "Dream Side", won the men's gold medal at the Olympics in the Spanish city next the rule change. The US has won the Olympic gold medal at every willing since, but for Athens 2004, when they were bashed out in the semi-final by Argentina and had to relax for bronze.  

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Olympic Tickets: USA Boxing convert department store into a training facility in preparation for Tokyo Olympic

USA Boxing is field a training camp in training for this year's Olympics in Tokyo in a wild department store. National team boxers have been powerless to use the amenities at the United States Olympic and Paralympic Training Center at Colorado Springs meanwhile March.

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This is a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, which also involuntary the delay of the Olympics from 2020 to July 23 to August 8 2021.  To sufficiently prepare for the Sports, USA Boxing staff moved exercise equipment into a section store in Colorado Springs.

“After expenditure most of 2020 waiting to be allowable entry back into our national gym at the Colorado Springs Olympic and Paralympic Training Center, it was time that we took substances into our own hands and recognized a training space that can properly house our team’s training needs," supposed USA Boxing high-performance director Matt Johnson. 

USA Boxing decision-making director Mike McAtee also exposed the camp is being held with severe COVID-19 protocol in place. Boxers and coaches are existence housed at the nearby Hotel Elegant. 

"We can continue to change forward in this COVID environment by smearing multi-layer defense protocols, pre-travel testing, obligatory mask-wearing, social estrangement, regular cleaning, regular fast antigen testing, daily health reviews and follow up polymerase chain reaction pool challenging," he supposed. 

The camp started last week and will run until February 18.  Led by USA Boxing national head coach Billy Walsh and national forte and conditioning coach Jose Polanco, the camp topographies the mainstream of the American team for the Tokyo Olympic qualifiers. 

This comprises 2018 world flyweight bronze medalist Virginia Fuchs and 2019 world frivolous bronze medalist Rashida Ellis. Keyshawn Davis, the world light welterweight silver medalist, has not been comprised on the camp list. 

Afterward the camp, the boxers are arranged to travel to Bulgaria and Spain for international tournaments.  They will then contribute in a camp at Chula Vista Elite Athlete Training Center in California previously the Americas Olympic qualifying event in May. 

The US over joint fifth in boxing's medal standings at the Rio 2016 Olympics, winning one gold, one silver and one bronze. Clarisse Shields was the nation's sole podium topper after positively defensive her women's middleweight title. Shakur Stevenson was the men's bantamweight runner-up and Nico Hernández was a third-place closer in the men's light flyweight category.  

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Olympic Gymnastics: Oldest Olympic champion Keleti celebrates 100th birthday

Hungary's Agnes Keleti, the world's eldest living Olympic champion, today reveals her 100th birthday, receiving a call from the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach as part of the occasion.

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Winning 10 Olympic medals in gymnastics, she is the most successful Hungarian female athlete at the Games, winning five gold, three silver and two bronze medals at the Helsinki 1952 and Melbourne 1956 Olympics.

Only three Hungarians are more successful than her, all from winning medals in fencing. She won the floor event at the 1952 Games and defended that title in 1956. Keleti also won the team, uneven bars and balance beam golds in Melbourne to make her one of the most successful Olympians from the country.

Afterwards, cross-country skier, Lydia Wideman expired in April 2019, Keleti became the oldest living Olympic champion. IOC Head Bach spoke over the phone to Keleti to wish her healthy.

"Heartfelt congratulations and best wishes for your birthday," supposed Bach.

Your story is truly inspirational. You have demonstrated the power of strong determination and courage to overcome tragedy. These are the attributes of a great Olympic champion. As an Olympian, your 10 medals, five of them gold, are truly astonishing. 

I am sure that had you competed at the Olympic Games London 1948; you might even have had more. The President of the Hungarian Olympic Committee (MOB), Krisztian Kulcsar, handed over a gift to Keleti on behalf of the IOC, who could not visit her in person due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

MOB secretary-general Balint Veasy was also present, as was György Nébald, President of the Hungarian Olympic Champions Club and Sandor Altorjai, secretary-general of the Hungarian Gymnastics Association. As well as cake and plants, Keleti also received a copy of the winning medal of Hungary's first modern Olympic champion, Alfred Hajós.

"You have come to a wonderful anniversary that is given to a few," supposed Kulcsar. 

We are grateful for all you have done during your rich life for both your homeland, the Olympic movement and your sport. Your unique career fills every member of the Hungarian Olympic family with great pride.

Owed to the Second World War, Keleti could not strive at the Olympics until she was 31 years old. She was part of the only Jewish gymnastics club in Budapest and looked to be part of the Tokyo 1940 Olympics before it was cancelled due to the conflict.

During the war, she was forced to flee Budapest due to threats to Jewish people, having previously been expelled from her club due to her religion. Keleti was then an alternative for the London 1948 Sports, making her Olympic debut in 1952.

Alive the war after using a fake individuality and marrying related gymnast István Sárkány, she came out of the conflict and back into gymnastics, resulting in her winning her first Central European Gymnastics Championship in 1947.

Her father and uncles were among 550,000 Hungarian Jews killed during the Holocaust. Along with her Olympic heroics, she won the 1954 world title in uneven bars. Afterwards Melbourne 1956, she required political asylum in Australia after the Soviet Union invaded Hungary.

She later migrated to Israel and taught the national gymnastics side. Keleti was inaugurated into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2002. She is the most fruitful female Jewish athlete in Olympic history, with only one Jewish athlete swimmer Mark Spitz consuming won more Olympic medals.

To mark the occasion, the International Fair Play Committee (CIFP) also presented Keleti with the Fair Play Career Award. President of the CIFP, Jenő Kamuti, obtainable her with the prize at the Rumbach Street Synagogue in Budapest.

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