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Buying tickets for the 2026 Winter Games will be tricky. Sliding could be in Cortina or Lake Placid
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Buying tickets for the 2026 Winter Games will be tricky. Sliding could be in Cortina or Lake Placid

Associated Press  

PARIS — It’s kind of like buying tickets for an aging rock band and hoping that the 80-year-old singers and guitarists will be healthy enough to put on the show months down the line. Then by February we’ll be very close to an eventual initial homologation and hopefully we’ll be able to say by then with certainty that it will …

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Test events augur well for stellar Beijing Winter Games
3 years, 1 month ago

Test events augur well for stellar Beijing Winter Games

China Daily  

Medical staff are on standby during a figure skating test event at the Capital Indoor Stadium. Organizers of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics say ongoing test events suggest the city will deliver safe and stellar Games next year, despite the lingering pandemic. The organizing committee will discuss the Games with the International Olympic Committee, the International Paralympic Committee and relevant …

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Beijing Olympics open in 4 months; human rights talk absent
3 years, 2 months ago

Beijing Olympics open in 4 months; human rights talk absent

Associated Press  

When the International Olympic Committee awarded Beijing the 2008 Summer Olympics, it promised the Games could improve human rights and civil liberties in China. There is no such lofty talk this time with Beijing’s 2022 Winter Olympics — the first city to host both the Summer and Winter Games — opening in just four months on Feb. 4. “These measures …

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Tokyo Olympics: Test events continue with track cycling, mixed zone scrapped
3 years, 7 months ago

Tokyo Olympics: Test events continue with track cycling, mixed zone scrapped

The Hindu  

Tokyo Olympic test events continued with track cycling on Sunday but planned in-person rider interviews were changed to an online format, as a worsening coronavirus situation in Japan forces organisers to adjust their programmes. Sunday's test event was to have been the first since the postponement of the Summer Games to have a mixed zone where journalists interview athletes after …

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Tokyo Olympics 2020: Water polo test event cancelled over coronavirus restrictions, confirm organisers
3 years, 8 months ago

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Water polo test event cancelled over coronavirus restrictions, confirm organisers

Firstpost  

Test events function as dress rehearsals for each sport, and the two-day water polo test was supposed to open on Saturday but will now be held in May or June, Tokyo 2020 organisers said. A Tokyo Olympics water polo test event has been postponed, organisers said Tuesday, following reports it had been called off because sport officials cannot enter Japan …

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Tokyo Olympics 2020: Organisers prepare to resume 'safe' test events
3 years, 8 months ago

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Organisers prepare to resume 'safe' test events

Firstpost  

Tokyo Olympics organisers on Monday unveiled virus countermeasures for test events that will resume later this week for the first time since the Games were postponed by the pandemic. Test events were halted after the sport climbing event was held from 6 to 8 March last year, with Tokyo 2020 staff replacing athletes because of infection concerns. Tokyo 2020 Games …

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Tokyo Olympics: Overseas athletes may participate in test events, say organisers
3 years, 8 months ago

Tokyo Olympics: Overseas athletes may participate in test events, say organisers

The Hindu  

International athletes could be invited to participate in test events before the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games this summer, organisers said on Monday. Test events for five competitions, including track and field and the marathon, could involve foreign athletes participating, the organisers said. Asked what Tokyo 2020 would do with the test events if there were another wave of coronavirus infections, …

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Events to take place again with rapid testing and a CoronaCheck app
3 years, 10 months ago

Events to take place again with rapid testing and a CoronaCheck app

NL Times  

The government wants to implement more rapid tests and a corona app to enable events to take place again. A first trial event should take place in March in which the government's new corona app will be tested. Outgoing Minister of Health Hugo de Jonge says in the national newspaper de Volkskrant that he wants to set up large-scale access …

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Tokyo Olympics Announces Test Events Ahead Of 2021 Games
4 years ago

Tokyo Olympics Announces Test Events Ahead Of 2021 Games

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING TOKYO — The postponed Tokyo Olympics are getting a kickstart. Officials said at least four of the test events will involve athletes from abroad, including tests in swimming, gymnastics, diving and volleyball. Hidemasa Nakamura, the games delivery officer, said none of the test events will allow fans from abroad, although some events will permit an unspecified number …

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Tokyo Olympics 2020: Test events to resume in March, decision on attendance in spring
4 years ago

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Test events to resume in March, decision on attendance in spring

Firstpost  

Fans and foreign athletes will be allowed at some of the test events, which will also be used to assess anti-coronavirus measures and contingency plans. Tokyo: Tokyo Olympics test events will resume in March and a decision on fan attendance will come in the spring, an official said on Friday, as preparations continued for the postponed Games despite ongoing coronavirus …

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Tokyo Olympics officials talk of test events early next year - Sportstar
4 years, 1 month ago

Tokyo Olympics officials talk of test events early next year - Sportstar

The Hindu  

Tokyo Olympics organisers on Tuesday said they were encouraged by a gymnastics meet over the weekend and are now ready to hold test events early next year. “From the beginning of next year we will begin operations and proceed to have test events in March.” The gymnasts who entered Japan first faced a quarantine at home. Tokyo Olympic officials, the …

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Premier League to defer 'test events' after government restrictions - Football news
4 years, 3 months ago

Premier League to defer 'test events' after government restrictions - Football news

The Hindu  

The Premier League said it will defer 'test events' with fans after the government's decision this week to cap the amount of spectators inside venues at 1,000. READ | No fans have been allowed at Premier League games since last season resumed in June following a three-month hiatus caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. “Therefore, Premier League clubs will defer …

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Premier League plans for return of fans face government review
4 years, 3 months ago

Premier League plans for return of fans face government review

The Hindu  

The Premier League's hopes of bringing fans back into stadiums in early October could be hampered after the UK government said it will review the plans and limit test events for sport. “We must revise plans to pilot larger audiences in venues later this month and review our intention to return audiences to stadiums from 1 October,” Johnson said. RELATED| …

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Ding and Liu to miss Olympic test run
4 years, 4 months ago

Ding and Liu to miss Olympic test run

China Daily  

Liu Shiwen reacts during a match in Magdeburg, Germany, on Jan 31, 2020. More cancellations Meanwhile, the ITTF's executive committee has decided to extend the suspension of all ITTF events until the end of August due to ongoing difficulties arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. The ITTF World Tour Czech Open, originally scheduled for Aug 25-30 in Olomouc, has been canceled …

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