Iran set to execute second wrestler after last year hanging a champion competitor

A wrestler is set to be executed by Iran only months after they hanged another champion wrestler, 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 athlete … Read more

Cody Simpson’s swim coach insists he can make the 2024 Paris Olympics

Cody Simpson’s swimming coach insists the pop star CAN make the 2024 Paris Olympics – and is preparing to win a gold medal By Kristy Johnson For Daily Mail Australia Published: 12:08 GMT, 9 January 2021 | Updated: 12:08 GMT, 9 January 2021 Cody Simpson recently achieved his childhood dream of qualifying for the Olympic … Read more

Tokyo Olympics organisers insist ‘safe and secure’ Games will take place this summer

Tokyo Olympics organisers insist ‘safe and secure’ Games will take place this summer despite a state of emergency being declared in the host city Tokyo has been put in a month-long state of emergency after a Covid-19 spike The city recorded a daily record of 2,447 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday Deaths from the virus … Read more

Tokyo Olympics organisers insist ‘safe and secure’ Games will take place this summer

Tokyo Olympics organisers insist ‘safe and secure’ Games will take place this summer despite a state of emergency being declared in the host city Tokyo has been put in a month-long state of emergency after a Covid-19 spike The city recorded a daily record of 2,447 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday Deaths from the virus … Read more

Olympics 2020: Japan declare state of emergency in Tokyo with less than 200 days to go

Japan declares state of emergency in Tokyo less than 200 days before start of the Olympics as city struggles to keep coronavirus under control… with deaths having DOUBLED in under two months Tokyo has been put in a month-long state of emergency after a Covid-19 spike The city recorded a daily record of 2,447 new … Read more

Japan declares state of emergency in Tokyo less than 200 days before start of the Olympics

Japan declares state of emergency in Tokyo less than 200 days before start of the Olympics as city struggles to keep coronavirus under control… with deaths having DOUBLED in under two months Tokyo has been put in a month-long state of emergency after a Covid-19 spike The city recorded a daily record of 2,447 new … Read more

Covid lockdown England: Visitors deluge National Trust site Box Hill

Walkers and cyclists descended on a National Trust beauty spot in Surrey this afternoon as the car park overflowed amid concerns the area is becoming overcrowded during the third national lockdown. Cars lined the road outside Box Hill in the North Downs as families, couples and dog walkers made the most of a day off, … Read more

Olympics 2020: IOC member says athletes should be priorities for Covid vaccine

IOC member Dick Pound says athletes should be priorities for Covid vaccine to ensure delayed Tokyo 2020 can go ahead… just weeks after Olympics chief Thomas Bach insisted they wouldn’t be able to jump the queue! IOC member Dick Pound says Olympic athletes should get a Covid vaccine soon Tokyo 2020 was delayed last summer … Read more

IOC member Dick Pound says athletes should be priorities for Covid vaccine

IOC member Dick Pound says athletes should be priorities for Covid vaccine to ensure delayed Tokyo 2020 can go ahead… just weeks after Olympics chief Thomas Bach insisted they wouldn’t be able to jump the queue! IOC member Dick Pound says Olympic athletes should get a Covid vaccine soon Tokyo 2020 was delayed last summer … Read more

The best places to visit in 2021, from Japan during the Olympics to Antarctica for the solar eclipse

After nine months of ever-changing rules and disruption, many of us will be happy just to travel somewhere safe, sunny and hassle-free this year. In fact, 2021 promises to be a bumper one for great things to see and do with plenty of new openings, anniversaries and sports and cultural events planned. With fingers firmly … Read more