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How Paris Olympics is ‘pushing the level’ of breakdancing in UK
The world’s best B-Boys and B-Girls will be heading to Paris this summer as ‘Breaking’ makes its debut at the Olympic Games.
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Natasha Jonas and Bianca Walkden on the Paris Olympics
Tonight the Liverpool boxer Natasha Jonas will defend her world welterweight title against Mikaela Mayer – cheered on by an enthusiastic home crowd.
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Birmingham ready to match London Olympics with spectacular opening ceremony
Organisers of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham promise that tonight’s opening ceremony will be on a par with the spectacular event that launched the London 2012 Olympics games.
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Russian actions ‘still consistent with invasion by end of Olympics’, Polish MEP says
We spoke to the Polish MEP Radek Sikorski who was formerly a defence and foreign affairs minister.
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China will use the Winter Olympics as ‘propaganda’, says 2008 Olympic torchbearer
We were joined by Kamalturk Yalqun, a Uyghur who carried the Olympic torch for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He now lives in exile in the US. And from Nottingham, Professor Steve Tsang of the SOAS China Institute.
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China Winter Olympics: Human rights groups call for boycott over Uyghur suppression
A cross-party group of MPs has called for their pension fund to divest from companies linked to Xinjiang, the Chinese province where hundreds of thousands of Muslim Uyghur people have been sent to re-education camps and prisons.
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Team GB’s Jonny Brownlee reflects on winning gold at ‘strange’ Tokyo Olympics
We spoke to Jonny Brownlee, who won gold in the mixed triathlon. The victory was his third medal in an Olympic career that began nine years ago in London and we began by asking how these Games have been different for him.
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Tokyo Olympics: Best action often stuck behind paywall
Discovery’s £900 million rights deal allows the BBC to show just two live events at the same time.
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Tom Pidcock praised as ‘precocious talent’ after winning gold at Olympics
We spoke to Simon Watts, the lead coach of the Great Britain mountain bike cross-country team, and began by asking him about the day in late May when Tom Pidcock broke his collar bone in five places.
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Japan announces state of emergency in Tokyo just weeks before capital hosts Olympics
Japan’s ill-fated Olympic games have suffered another blow after Japanese spectators were banned from events in and around Tokyo.
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US sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson could miss Tokyo Olympics after positive cannabis test
The American sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson could miss competing in the 100 metres at the Olympics in Tokyo after testing positive for cannabis.
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Japan’s Prime Minister insists Olympics will still go ahead as planned – as sporting events around the world continue to be cancelled due to coronavirus
Japan’s Prime Minister has insisted the Olympics will still go ahead as planned in July – although sporting events around the world are being cancelled.
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Refugee who fled war now aiming for the Olympics
He left everything behind when he fled the Syrian war. 24 year old Eid Aljazairili couldn’t even swim when he made the risky journey by boat across the Mediterranean – finally reaching the UK where he was granted asylum. He soon realised he had a passion – and rare gift – for swimming – and…
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Johnson agrees Putin will use World Cup as Hitler used Olympics
Boris Johnson has waded into the diplomatic row with Russia over the poisoning of a former spy on British soil, agreeing that the way Vladimir Putin is using the World Cup in Russia as a “PR exercise” is comparable to how Hitler used the 1936 Olympics. For their part, the Russian foreign ministry invited all…
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Winter Olympics closing ceremony
The winter Olympics closing ceremony has taken place in South Korea with a digital lightshow, fireworks and input from the country’s K-pop stars. Britain came home happy after a best-ever haul of five medals, but it was the outbreak of sporting diplomacy between North and South Korea that dominated these games.