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With Guardians, Cleveland Steps Away From an Offensive Name

New York TimesJuly 23, 2021

by New York TimesJuly 23, 202100

David Waldstein Philip Yenyo has been protesting outside Cleveland’s baseball stadiums for 30 years, demanding the local Major League Baseball team change a name many consider racist. But next spring, Yenyo will put down his signs and take his 11-year-old son inside the stadium for the first time. “We can......

A Skateboarder’s Secret Grind

New York TimesJuly 23, 2021

by New York TimesJuly 23, 202100

John Branch “If he can make it through his teen years, I think he’s the future of street and park skateboarding,” Dan Bostick, president of World Cup Skateboarding, said at the time. In the same article, Adeyemi Huston acknowledged that the attention was overwhelming. He handled all aspects of Nyjah’s......

Ugandan weight lifter who went missing in Japan returns home.

New York TimesJuly 23, 2021

by New York TimesJuly 23, 202100

Musinguzi Blanshe and Abdi Latif Dahir A weight lifter who went missing in Japan this month as he sought to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics has returned to Uganda and will be interrogated by police, authorities said on Friday — a week after his disappearance prompted international news headlines and......

Three-on-Three Basketball at the Olympics: What to Watch For

New York TimesJuly 23, 2021

by New York TimesJuly 23, 202100

Kelly Whiteside Eighty-five years after basketball’s debut in the Olympics, at the 1936 Berlin Games, a twist on the sport makes its Olympic debut in Tokyo. Three-on-three basketball, or 3×3 as the sport’s world governing body refers to it, promises a faster version than the traditional form. What is three-on-three......

Naomi Osaka lights the cauldron.

New York TimesJuly 23, 2021

by New York TimesJuly 23, 202100

Victor Mather The torch relay ended with the tennis star Naomi Osaka lighting the Olympic cauldron, in what is typically one of the most memorable parts of the opening ceremony. Following in the footsteps of Muhammad Ali, Paavo Nurmi, Rafer Johnson, Midori Ito, Yuna Kim and Wayne Gretzky, Osaka climbed......

Telfar Clemens designed the Liberian outfits.

New York TimesJuly 23, 2021

by New York TimesJuly 23, 202100

Vanessa Friedman Formal Olympian wardrobes are rarely “cool” — and rarely available to smaller countries with less promotional muscle. But this year Liberia changed that narrative. They have only three athletes competing, but have fielded a Summer Olympic team almost every year since 1956. They have never, however, won an......

Russia isn’t at the Games. Yet there it is.

New York TimesJuly 23, 2021

by New York TimesJuly 23, 202100

Victor Mather Russia has been banned from the Games because of its state-sponsored doping program. Well, sort of. Russian athletes who have not been caught doping themselves are still allowed to compete. But their team cannot be known as “Russia,” the Russian flag is banned and so is its anthem.......

Tokyo Olympics Opening Ceremony: Live Updates as the Games Begin

New York TimesJuly 23, 2021

by New York TimesJuly 23, 202100

The New York Times July 23, 2021, 6:30 a.m. ET July 23, 2021, 6:30 a.m. ET Pedestrians walk past a huge display showing a news report about the firing of the opening ceremony’s director, Kentaro Kobayashi.Credit…Kimimasa Mayama/EPA, via Shutterstock Opening ceremonies are an opportunity for the Olympics’ host nation to......

Sponsorships in Hand, These Athletes Rely on Their Watches

New York TimesJuly 23, 2021

by New York TimesJuly 23, 202100

Kathleen Beckett Athletes can make a lot of money when they win an event. But they can make even more — much more — when they secure a sponsorship. In first place on Forbes’s 2020 list of the highest-paid athletes is the tennis star Roger Federer, who made $106.3 million......

The Olympics Rely on, but Don’t Support, Black Girl Magic

New York TimesJuly 23, 2021

by New York TimesJuly 23, 202100

Kurt Streeter For better or worse, the Tokyo Olympics are finally here. And that means an extraordinary burden will fall again on the shoulders of a single group of athletes: Black women. Simone Biles is one of the most brilliant talents at the Games. But if recent history holds and......

Greg Knapp, a Jets Assistant Coach, Dies at 58

New York TimesJuly 22, 2021

by New York TimesJuly 22, 202100

Alanis Thames Greg Knapp, the Jets’ passing-game specialist, died on Thursday from injuries suffered in a biking accident in California last weekend. He was 58 years old. In a statement released through the Jets on Thursday afternoon, Knapp’s family said he was struck by a car on Saturday while riding......

Simone Biles has her own emoji, and it suits her well.

New York TimesJuly 22, 2021

by New York TimesJuly 22, 202100

Evan Easterling Simone Biles now has an emoji befitting her status. Twitter hashtags of Biles’s full name or even just her first name will be accompanied by a leaping cartoon goat wearing a sparkling red gymnastics leotard with a gold medal draped around its neck. The social media platform’s sports......

Fred Zalokar, Marathoner Who Took On Mountains, Is Found Dead in Yosemite

New York TimesJuly 22, 2021

by New York TimesJuly 22, 202100

Neil Vigdor The body of the 61-year-old, who had been missing since Saturday, was recovered on Tuesday near the summit of Mount Clark, the National Park Service said. Source link: Click here for more...

How to Watch the Opening Ceremony

New York TimesJuly 22, 2021

by New York TimesJuly 22, 202100

Alexandra E. Petri After a yearlong delay, the opening ceremony for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics is almost here. But with social distancing and no fans, the ceremony, much like the Games, will look a lot different. When is the opening ceremony? The opening ceremony for the Olympics is scheduled for......

How to watch the opening ceremony.

New York TimesJuly 22, 2021

by New York TimesJuly 22, 202100

Alexandra E. Petri Here’s what you need to know: The opening ceremony that Kentaro Kobayashi planned will go ahead as scheduled at the Olympic Stadium despite him being fired.Credit…Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times TOKYO — Thursday was another warmup day for the Olympics, a second day in the spotlight for......

Olympics Live Updates: Opening Ceremony Set For Near-Empty Stadium

New York TimesJuly 22, 2021

by New York TimesJuly 22, 202100

The New York Times Current time in Tokyo: July 23, 8:09 a.m. Here’s what you need to know: Jill Biden, the U.S. first lady, arrived at Yokota Air Base on Thursday to attend the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Games.Credit…Kyodo/via Reuters Jill Biden arrived in Japan on Thursday for the......

In Softball, a Comeback 13 Years in the Making

New York TimesJuly 22, 2021

by New York TimesJuly 22, 202100

James Wagner TOKYO — During the 2008 Olympics, Kaleigh Rafter was 21 and representing Canada even though she had not yet finished her college softball career. Still, she thought she probably wouldn’t have a chance to play in the Olympics much longer, because her sport had been voted out from......

How to watch the opening ceremony.

New York TimesJuly 22, 2021

by New York TimesJuly 22, 202100

Alexandra E. Petri After a yearlong delay, the opening ceremony for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics is almost here. But with social distancing and no fans, the ceremony, much like the Games, will look a lot different. When is the opening ceremony? The opening ceremony for the Olympics is scheduled for......

The Distant Echo of a Raucous Match in Tokyo

New York TimesJuly 22, 2021

by New York TimesJuly 22, 202100

Ken Belson CHOFU, Japan — One warm autumn afternoon two years ago, thousands of rugby fans converged on the plaza outside Chofu Station, in suburban Tokyo. Japan would play South Africa in a quarterfinal match of the 2019 Rugby World Cup in a few hours. While the South Africans were......

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