[ad_1] TOKYO, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Japan’s Sena Irie upset reigning world champion Nesthy Petecio of the Philippines to take Olympic gold within the girls’s featherweight boxing on Tuesday, delivering the host nation’s first gold ever in girls’s boxing. Petecio who was seen because the favorite within the struggle, took silver. Italian Irma Testa and […]
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[ad_1] Fiji continued their Olympic males’s rugby sevens dominance with a 27-12 win over New Zealand to retain the title they received at Rio 2016. Their shorter-form rugby success represents their second gold in Video games historical past, with Fiji’s sevens crew but to lose on the Olympics after extending their unbeaten run to 12 video games. In April, COVID-19 […]
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[ad_1] Naomi Osaka lighting the Olympic cauldron could have helped improve the publicity for the game of tennis world wide, in line with Novak Djokovic. Osaka was given the honour of carrying the torch on the brief ultimate leg on the Japan Nationwide Stadium earlier than strolling the steps to mild the flame and finish the […]
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[ad_1] The cardboard headlined by the Gilberto Ramirez-Sullivan Barrera light-heavyweight conflict, with a tasty Joseph Diaz-Javier Fortuna appetizer because the co-main, can even function an fascinating double-header of types. Embedded in a talent-laden lineup of a couple of dozen fights, we’ll see two matchups that carry sufficient weight to have headlined a card of their […]
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WBO tremendous flyweight champion Kazuto Ioka holds a press convention on Could 19, 2021, in Tokyo. (Kyodo)
TOKYO (Kyodo) — WBO tremendous flyweight champion Kazuto Ioka, the primary Japanese male world champion in 4 totally different weight divisions, is not going to be punished for doping, the Japanese […]
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[ad_1] By Ju-min Park and Kim Kyung Hoon TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese nurse Arisa Tsubata has skilled round her work shifts for over a 12 months to arrange for a last Olympic boxing qualifier within the hope of creating it to the Tokyo Video games this summer time. That dream was shattered after the Worldwide […]
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[ad_1] By Joe Koizumi The Japanese authorities determined to increase the state of emergency as for 4 main metropolis/prefectures of Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto and Hyogo, plus two extra— Aichi and Fukuoka —as well as, due to the nonetheless rampant COVID-19 pandemic from in the present day (Could 12) till the tip of Could. Dangan Promotions […]