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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Japanese government put on a united front as they categorically denied a report that the Tokyo Olympics is to be cancelled this summer. It was claimed on Thursday that senior cabinet members privately agreed the Games are doomed because of the coronavirus pandemic and are now looking to recoup … Read more
Tokyo Olympics ‘are CANCELLED’: Japanese government ‘has privately concluded the Games cannot go ahead this summer’ after they were postponed from last year By Ross Ibbetson and Kishan Vaghela For Mailonline Published: 23:54 GMT, 21 January 2021 | Updated: 00:25 GMT, 22 January 2021 The Japanese government has decided the Tokyo Olympics cannot go ahead … Read more
Tokyo Olympics ‘are CANCELLED’: Japanese government ‘has privately concluded the Games cannot go ahead this summer’ after they were postponed from last year By Ross Ibbetson For Mailonline Published: 23:54 GMT, 21 January 2021 | Updated: 23:59 GMT, 21 January 2021 Japan’s government has privately concluded the Tokyo Olympics will have to be cancelled because … Read more
The Tokyo Olympics could go ahead behind-closed-doors because spectators are NOT a ‘must-have’, says IOC chief… and it’s ‘2021 or nothing’ with no chance of another postponement because of coronavirus Tokyo Games organisers are considering making the Olympics a TV-only event IOC president Thomas Bach says organisers have to be flexible with their plans Cased … Read more
I live in England and am a Londoner by choice, although I have lived in all three other capital cities – Edinburgh, Belfast and Cardiff Like most Scots of my generation, I have several identities. Born in Scotland, I am from a Scottish and Ulster unionist family stretching back to the 17th Century. I live … Read more
Grant Hackett reveals insight into Cody Simpson’s gruelling Olympic training and why he backs the singer for future success in swimming By Louise Starkey For Daily Mail Australia Published: 03:05 GMT, 17 January 2021 | Updated: 03:05 GMT, 17 January 2021 Australian swimming legend Grant Hackett won seven Olympic medals between 2000 and 2008 – … Read more
The Royal Mint has begun the countdown to the 50th anniversary of ‘D-day’. Not the World War II beach landing, that was in 1944, but ‘decimalisation day’. On 15 February 1971, UK coinage was reorganised into the way we know today, with the old system of 12 pence in a shilling and 20 pence in … Read more
‘It’s surreal’: Dancing On Ice’s Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean reveal they’ll be kept apart for first time in 40 YEARS due to show’s Covid guidelines By Rianne Addo For Mailonline Published: 01:38 GMT, 15 January 2021 | Updated: 01:39 GMT, 15 January 2021 Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean have revealed they’ll be kept apart … Read more
Cody Simpson wears a face mask as he does Covid swim training in Los Angeles – as he makes a bid for the 2024 Paris Olympics By Chloe-lee Longhetti For Daily Mail Australia Published: 00:19 GMT, 14 January 2021 | Updated: 00:21 GMT, 14 January 2021 Cody Simpson recently qualified for the Olympic swim trials … Read more
A second wrestler is set to be executed by Iran only months after they hanged another champion competitor, Navid Afkari, despite international pleas. Mehdi Ali Hosseini, 29, from Andimeshk, Khuzestan, was arrested in 2015 and charged with murder following a group brawl. The wrestler’s execution is imminent because the victim’s family refused to pardon the … Read more