The Executive Director of the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Health Emergencies Programme, Dr Michael Ryan, has welcomed the strict COVID-19 countermeasures which are being put in place for the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020.
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Lewis: TTOC to tap into IOC Sinopharm programme
As the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and China announced their collaboration to offer vaccines to athletes and teams preparing for the upcoming Tokyo and Beijing Games, Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (TTOC) president Brian Lewis says his organisation will attempt to tap into the programme....
TT Olympic Committee boss Brian Lewis awaits update on vaccines for Olympians
THE TT Olympic Committee (TTOC) is awaiting more details from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) regarding Thursday’s announcement by biopharmaceutical company Pfizer, and its German partner BioNTech, that they would donate doses of their covid19 vaccine to help vaccinate athletes and their delegations ahead of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Wearing Black Lives Matter apparels, social protests will lead to punishments at Tokyo Olympics
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has issued a strict warning against wearing Black Life Matters (BLM) apparels or indulging in any kind of social protests at the Tokyo Games to the athletes.
Right to protest rule could see Olympics face unique challenge
Rule 50 is one of the 61 rules in the Olympic Charter, and specifically it is rule 50.2 which may turn up frequently in 2021, its pot constantly on stir and simmer. The rule says: “No kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda is permitted in any Olympic sites, venues or other areas.”
Myanmar swimmer ditches Olympic dream to protest junta violence
BANGKOK: A Myanmar swimmer has abandoned his dream of competing at the Tokyo Olympics in protest at the junta ruling his homeland, saying that taking part would be "propaganda" for the regime.