On Thursday, it was announced that two more athletes - Dutch skateboarder Candy Jacobs and Czech table tennis player Pavel Sirucek - and 10 support staff tested positive for COVID-19. In March, Yoshiro Mori, a former prime minister who was the head of the local organizing committee, resigned after declaring that committee meetings with women always ran on for too long. On Monday, the creative director for the music for the opening ceremony for both the Olympics and the subsequent Paralympics, resigned after an apology failed to assuage public criticism for his bullying of children with developmental disabilities when he was in his teens.Īnother comedian brought into the opening ceremony was also forced out after suggesting that a plus-size female model be dressed as a pig for an event that will be watched by billions of people around the world. "From a public relations perspective, it is a complete nightmare, but made far worse because there have been other similar problems with people involved in the games." "A simple YouTube search would have found this, so why was he not vetted?" he told DW. "I find it incredible that the organizers are only finding out now, the day before the grand opening ceremony, what this guy said about the Holocaust," said Robert Dujarric, co-director of the Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies at the Tokyo campus of Temple University. Taken together, the crises surrounding the games tend to lend credence to the complaint last year by Taro Aso, the deputy prime minister, that the 2020 Olympics appeared to be "cursed." Though the coronavirus pandemic was arguably impossible to foresee and very difficult to defend against, a lot of the other issues that have tarnished the largest sporting event in Japan's history are the result of poor judgment on the part of individuals.
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Organizers have attempted to swiftly draw a line under the incident, but it is only the latest in a long series of problems that have plagued the Tokyo Games. To those I made feel uncomfortable, I am sorry." In a statement issued on Thursday, Kobayashi said: "I understand that my stupid choice of words at that time was wrong, and I regret it. Kentaro Kobayashi, a comedian and one of the creative directors of Friday evening's opening ceremony, was fired after it was learned that he had made antisemitic jokes in a comedy act in 1998, including using the phrase "Let's play Holocaust."
This will mark the first time since 1996 - when the sport made its debut - that no Brazilian team will medal in the men's beach volleyball event.The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games stumbled into a new scandal on Thursday, just hours before the official opening event at the new National Stadium, with a senior organizer of the event dismissed for jokes that he made in the past about the Holocaust. Plavins is a bronze medallist at London 2012, but with a different partner. Plavins and Tocs took out two Brazilian teams on their route to the semis, including No.3-ranked Alison and Alvaro Filho. The Latvian duo join female compatriots Tina Graudina and Anastasia Kravcenoka in the Olympic semi-finals, making history for their country as an Olympic first. The men's semi-finals will take place on Thursday (5 August), with medal matches to be held on Saturday (7 Aug.). The ROC team needed three sets to win each of their three group matches, but in knockout play have been seamless, winning both games in straight sets. The Norwegian duo dropped just one set in group play, and since then have cruised to 2-0 triumphs in both the round of 16 and the quarter-finals. It was Stoyanovskiy and Kraasilnikov who won gold at worlds in 2019.
It's a similar scenario on the bottom half of the bracket, as No.2 ranked Viacheslav Krasilnikov and Oleg Stoyanovskiy of the ROC take on Qatar's Cherif Younousse and Ahmed Tijan, ranked No.13. It's the two best teams in the world taking on two surprise stories in the men's beach volleyball semi-finals at Tokyo 2020.Īnders Mol and Christian Sorum, ranked No.1, and the 2019 world bronze medallists, continue their drive for gold in the final four, where they'll meet Latvia's Martins Plavins and Edgars Tocs, ranked just 17th coming into the Olympics.
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