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Hiroshi Sasaki announced his decision after a report on Wednesday revealed his suggestion about Naomi Watanabe, a hugely popular celebrity, for the opening ceremony. It is just the latest headache for organisers of the coronavirus-delayed Games, who are struggling for public support mid-pandemic and were left reeling by former chief Yoshiro Mori’s sexist remarks last month.

n both track & field and bobsled, said she needed to leave to focus further on training.And this extra training time was seemingly well spent. Jones won the first bobsledding competition of her career earlier this month at the IBSF Skeleton and Bobsleigh World Championships in Germany.

«My office has been notified that the body of John Geddert was found late this afternoon after taking his own life,» Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said in a statement.

Shawn Johnson on Overcoming Eating Disorder & Life After Gymnastics Summer Olympics Will Happen 'With or Without COVID,' Says IOC VP Ryan Lochte Talks Redemption, Fatherhood and Preparing for the 2021 Olympics  

Dianne Durham was the first Black gymnast to win a U.S. national championship, in 1983.Durham trained with notable Romanian-American coaches Bela and Martha Karolyi, and she was a teammate of Mary Lou Retton.

Cody Simpson, exactly? Well, maybe the question is, who isn't he? The former Australian teen idol has had one hell of a 2020. He had that entire relationship with Miley Cyrus, released his debut poetry book, was propelled by winning Australia's version of The Masked Singer in 2019 (yes, the one judged by Lindsay Lohan) to start releasing solo music again, and somehow has now found time to qualify for Australia's Olympic swimming trials.

Cody Simpson is ending 2020 with some impressive news!The 23-year-old singer took to Instagram over the weekend to let his fans know that he has qualified for his first Olympic trials. «I'd love to share this personal milestone and let you in on my current journey as an athlete that I've kept relatively low key until now,» Simpson explained.

Nancy Darsch was a women’s basketball coach who helped take USA Basketball to gold at the 1984 and 1996 Olympics and was one of the original WNBA coaches.Darsch coached college basketball at the University of Tennessee before becoming head coach at Ohio State University in 1985. She took the Buckeyes to four Big Ten titles and seven NCAA tournament appearances, and her team had the first televised game for Buckeyes women’s basketball, shown on ESPN in 1990.

were called off, but a few Olympians still suited up.Sports power players from Team USA Simone Biles, Nathan Adrian, Jagger Eaton and Allyson Felix transformed into “The Avengers” to celebrate the release of a new Marvel Universe video game, which debuted earlier this month through Square Enix games.The real-life superheroes are featured in a promo shoot showing off their respective powers in intricate makeup looks by beauty vlogger Kandee Johnson, who has 3.82 million followers on

Star Trek, and he sent a couple of films to J.J. I’m sure he was too busy to watch the whole of Species, but when we were on the set, he mentioned to me that there was one particular shot in it where I turned to the camera, and in that moment, it came to him how perfect it would be for me to play Sarek.” – Star Trek Magazine 2007 We are very sad to hear of the passing of Ben Cross, who played Sarek in the 2009 film Star Trek.

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the 2020 Olympics were postponed to next year, comedians Kim and Penn Holderness — the couple behind some of Facebook and YouTube’s most watched musical parodies — decided to challenge real-life Olympians to a slew of silly competitions.Throughout the five new videos — aptly dubbed the 2020 “Fauxlympics” — the dynamic duo, along with their two kids, challenge the world-class athletes to tournaments such as a Fruit by the Foot-eating contest and a penny-blowing race.“We didn’t win a single one,”

Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya was a figure skater who left her native Russia to compete for Australia in the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea.Alexandrovskaya was a native of Moscow and began skating as a child. In 2015, her coach paired her with Australian skater Harley Windsor, who had been seeking a partner.

Simone Biles admits it was «hard» for her and Stacey Ervin Jr. to call it quits after three years of dating — but it's all «for the best.»The 23-year-old Olympic gymnast graces the August issue of magazine and opens up about what life has been like in quarantine.

Peacock, NBC’s new streaming platform, “In Deep” covers the now-infamous incident at the 2016 Olympics in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil when the bleached-blonde Lochte — a 12-time Olympic medalist — falsely claimed to have been robbed at gunpoint.He was subsequently dropped by his sponsors and was suspended by USA Swimming for 10 months from competing in domestic and international competitions.

Usain Bolt is one happy dad!The 33-year-old Olympic sprinter took to Instagram on Tuesday, sharing the first official pics of his newborn daughter. In the caption, Bolt revealed that he and his girlfriend, Kasi Bennett, named their baby girl Olympia Lightning Bolt.«I want to wish my gf @kasi.b a happy birthday and to let u know I am happy I get to spend ur special day with u,» he gushed in the caption.

Trigger warning: The following story discusses Athlete A, a documentary containing descriptions of sexual abuse.If you googled gymnast Maggie Nichols a month ago, the results were filled with news stories about her dominant NCAA career as the “.” Despite the fact that her at the University of Oklahoma was cut short by the coronavirus pandemic, Nichols squeezed in five perfect 10s and was the number one ranked vaulter.

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Kurt Thomas was the first American male gymnast to win gold at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.Thomas was a student at Indiana State University when he competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, though he didn’t medal there. He went home to win NCAA events in parallel bars in 1977 and 1979, leading his school’s team to the 1977 National Championship.

Wimbledon, the famed tennis tournament taking place on the outskirts of London, England every year, has been cancelled for the first time since World War II back in 1945, ESPN reports.

and her husband, , have found a fantastic way to keep themselves (and us!) entertained as they isolate at home during the coronavirus pandemic.With athletic events on hold for the foreseeable future, Williams appears to have found a great outlet for her fiercely competitive nature: a toy gymnastics set where you can simulate rotations on a horizontal bar and try to stick the dismount.

The Tokyo officially has a new start date after being due to the pandemic."The Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 will be celebrated from 23 July to 8 August 2021," the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said Monday, March 30.

TV commercials have long been the surest bet on Madison Avenue. Suddenly, they’re looking more like a risky gambit.

After countless live events, concerts, and television productions have been due to the outbreak, the fate of the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo has finally been revealed.On Sunday, March 22, President Thomas Bach said he was going to to decide the fate of the Tokyo Olympics, scheduled to begin July 24, but had ruled out canceling the games.

Now that the gravity of a growing coronavirus pandemic has settled in and people are looking to safeguard their health and their livelihoods, the entertainment industry is grappling with three essential questions: How painful will the toll of shutdowns be on the industry’s lowest-paid workers? How high will the financial losses climb? And how will the business handle the unprecedented domino effect on Hollywood’s traditional calendar? The avalanche of hasty cancellations and delays to events and

A feature film about the life of legendary athlete Greg Louganis — the greatest Olympics diver in history — is in development.

39-year-old trans man Chris Mosier has made history by becoming the first out transgender athlete to compete in the men’s Olympic trials, according to Outsports.

Olympian Usain Bolt is expecting his first child with girlfriend Kasi Bennett.