The total includes 31 people among the tens of thousands of international visitors expected in Japan to compete or work at the Games, which open Friday.
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On Tuesday, Olympic surfers got their first look at Tsurigasaki Beach (sometimes called Shidashita Beach by locals) in Ichinomiya, where the surfing competition is scheduled to begin on Sunday. The venue is about 60 miles from Tokyo on Japan’s east coast.
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The extraordinary decision by the country’s top automaker underlines how polarizing the Games have become in Japan as COVID-19 infections rise ahead of Friday’s opening ceremony.
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Though there’s much excitement and renewed enthusiasm for the women’s game, years of objectification, pay disparities and an opportunity gap have taken their toll.
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The positive test was the latest in a growing line of daily reports of athletes and others testing positive at the pandemic-delayed Olympics.
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Athletes with Hawaii ties are competing in 10 different sports at the Olympics, which start this week in Tokyo. Some sports, like volleyball, are contested over nearly the entire two weeks of the games.
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Struggling businesses forced to temporarily shut down around Olympics venues. Olympic visitors ordered to install invasive apps and allow GPS tracking. Minders staking out hotels to keep participants from coming into contact with ordinary Japanese or visiting restaurants to sample the sushi.
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Two athletes living in the Olympic Village have tested positive for COVID-19, the first to do so with the Tokyo Games opening on Friday.
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On a U.S. basketball team filled with stars, nobody scored more than Bradley Beal during the season.
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Italo Ferreira grew up without much in a small town with nothing to do.
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WNBA star Liz Cambage has withdrawn from Australia’s Olympic women’s basketball team because of the anxiety she’s feeling about living and competing inside the restrictive bubble in place for the Tokyo Games.
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While the surfing community has long pledged that the ocean is for everyone, the elite professional ranks show a sport that remains homogeneous, expensive and inaccessible.
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- By Cindy Luis Special to the Star-Advertiser
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July 15, 2021
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There was a pixie of a gymnast from the USSR, Olga Korbut, who was six months younger than me when she wowed her way to three gold medals in Munich in 1972.
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His grandfather was one of Hawaii’s all-time sports legends, and both of his parents played college athletics.
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- By Star-Advertiser staff
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July 15, 2021
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The U.S. Olympic rowing team left Honolulu for Japan on Wednesday after a week of training at the Ala Wai Canal.
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The Japanese media quickly reported it and there was backlash on social media.
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Biden will attend the July 23 opening ceremony on her first solo trip abroad as first lady.
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White European settlers who first learned of the sport when they arrived to the island both vilified and capitalized on the sport.
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