The New Zealand team for this summer’s Tokyo 2020 Games and next year’s Beijing 2022 Winter Games have already plan to use non-invasive saliva polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests for COVID-19 for it’s team before departure. The new saliva testing option will be fast, accurate and more comfortable for athletes as more than 1,000 required […]
In what look like a beaming sound of drum of retirement, the Kenya World javelin champion, Julius Yego says the Tokyo 2020 will likely be his last Olympics. “This will be the last Games in which I will be able to compete at the highest level”, Yego said. Yego, matured under the tutelage of coach […]
The Commonwealth and African Champion, South Africa Akani Simbine, is no longer find it funny of his near misses of podium in the World stage. In an interview with Athletics South Africa, Simbine underlined his desire for Olympic glory and said he was putting Tokyo 2020 “before everything else”. “I’m really, really hungry – there’s […]
A dilemma of opinions spread over the Weight Lifting’s family concerning the case of the most successful Egyptian Weight Lifting coach whose his last coaching with Egyptian Weight Lifters ended in disaster; when the seven minor were ban for doping offence. Korany has now been provincially suspended of which he may face life ban if […]
Weightlifting has been given approval by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to extend its Tokyo 2020 qualifying period by a year, until the end of April 2021. Every athlete, including those who already have enough points to qualify, will be compelled to compete at least one more time in the period between October 1 this […]
After approval by International Olympics Commitee (IOC) and Paralympic, Badminton World Federation (BWF) has outline new qualification rules for the Tokyo 2020. Although the new system will still maintain the ranking points earned during the original qualification window. However, it has extended the Olympic qualification period for the first 17 weeks of 2021, culminating around […]
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