The country has changed vastly from that hopeful moment nearly six decades ago, and the Olympics this time around have come to represent something different and not entirely positive.
Tag: Olympic Games (2020)
Olympics Covid Cases Raise Tricky Questions About Testing
Frequent screening of healthy, vaccinated people will pick up even the mildest infections. How much testing is too much?
Your Thursday Briefing
A flood disaster in China.
Your Wednesday Briefing
India’s Covid deaths could be in the millions.
A Singapore Rower Trained for the Olympics Between Nursing Shifts
When Covid hit her home country, Joan Poh, Singapore’s only female rower competing at the Olympics, put her athletic training on hold to go back to work.
Your Tuesday Briefing
The U.S. accused China of hacking Microsoft.
‘Anti-Sex’ Beds in the Olympic Village? A Social Media Theory Is Soon Debunked
The coronavirus has forced a number of social distancing measures at the Summer Games, but the recyclable cardboard beds provided by organizers are not one of them.
‘Anti-Sex’ Beds in the Olympic Village? A Social Media Theory is Soon Debunked
The coronavirus has forced a number of social distancing measures at the Summer Games, but the recyclable cardboard beds provided by organizers are not one of them.
Your Monday Briefing
Indonesia is now the epicenter of the pandemic.
Coco Gauff tests positive for the virus, another blow for the Tokyo Olympics.
Cases have now been identified within Tokyo’s Olympic Village, where thousands of athletes are staying during the Games that begin this week.