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Masters champion Matsuyama eyes home golf gold for Japan at Tokyo 2020

  • Golf

Hideki Matsuyama will bid to further endear himself to the Japanese public by winning golf gold at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

highest-ranked player in the tournament and enters after winning The Open a fortnight ago.His fellow United

States players Justin Thomas and Patrick Reed, and Ireland's Shane Lowry, are the other major champions


Salazar faces life ban from US Center for SafeSport for "sexual and emotional misconduct"

  • Athletics

coach associated with the now defunct Nike Oregon Project, has been ruled permanently ineligible by the United

States Center for SafeSport for sexual misconduct and emotional misconduct violations.

misconduct in Olympic sports, is subject to appeal by Salazar, who received a four-year ban from the United

States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) in September 2019.He was placed on the temporarily banned list in

programme, activity, event, or competition sponsored by, organised by, or under the auspices of the United

States Olympic and Paralympic Committee, any NGB, and/or any LAO, or at a facility under their jurisdiction




Estonia win first-ever Olympic fencing gold medal in women’s team épée

  • Fencing

Estonia beat South Korea 36-32 in an enthralling women’s team épée final at the Makuhari Messe Hall B in Chiba.

Estonia’s first fencing gold at any Olympic Games, and came after a quarter-final triumph over the United

States and semi-final victory versus China.The bronze medal went to Italy, who beat China 32-21 in another


IOC accused of "cold indifference to genocide" as Congressional body quizzes US-based TOP sponsors on Beijing 2022

  • Beijing 2022

indifference to genocide" at a Congressional Executive Committee on China (CECC) hearing which today grilled United

States-based Olympic sponsors.

the US and China are strained, with American authorities joining the European Union, Canada and the United

Today’s hearing was a clear sign of the overwhelming bipartisan outrage across the United States at China


Women's artistic gymnastics team

  • Russian Summer Olympic Athletes

A Russian women’s artistic gymnastics team consisting of Liliia Akhaimova, Viktoriia Listunova, Angelina Melnikova and Vladislava Urazova won gold at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

The women’s team triumph, which saw them hold off the United States by more than three points, came a




SoFi Stadium christens signature video board The Infinity Screen by Samsung

  • Los Angeles 2028

The giant, two-sided video board at SoFi Stadium - a key venue for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics and Paralympics - has been given an official name, "The Infinity Screen by Samsung".

due to the coronavirus pandemic.SoFi Stadium could be used during the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which the United

States is co-hosting with Canada and Mexico, and is set to host Super Bowl LVI in February 2022 and



World Athletics President Coe says ban on cannabis "should be" reviewed

  • Athletics

The rules on the use of cannabis by athletes should be reviewed, World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has said in the wake of the case that meant Sha'Carri Richardson, winner of the women’s 100 metres at the US Olympic trials, missing Tokyo 2020.

".Athletes found to use it outside of competition face a three-month ban, although in this case the United

States Anti-Doping Agency banned Richardson for 30 days as long as she also undertook a treatment programme.Sha'Carri



David Owen: Olympic predicament highlights how companies may face mounting pressure to choose between the US and China

  • Inside the Blogs

It is unusual for the Winter Games to be diverting attention when the Summer Olympics are in full swing.

and Visa.Indeed, based on my reasonably extensive exposure to Parliamentary Committee meetings in the United

Union challenged it in other ways, but not as an economic behemoth.)Tensions are increasing between the United

States and China in the run-up to the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games ©Getty ImagesThis is the bust-up that

next five summer and winter Olympic Games after that, stretching through until 2032 are France, Italy, United

States, unknown and Australia.In other words, post-Beijing, there is nary a seriously controversial