Tag: Nagoya

Argentine tennis player Juan Martin Del Potro has not fully recovered from a series of knee injuries but the former U.S. Open champion told reporters on Wednesday he is targeting this year's Tokyo ... ( read original story ...)

The Nagoya Women’s Marathon is delighted to announce that the Nagoya Women’s Marathon 2021 will be staged in Nagoya city, Japan on Sunday, March 14, 2021 as planned. Launched in 2012, the Nagoya Women ... ( read original story ...)

Thomas Bach will serve as the IOC president until 2025 after he was re-elected for a second term by a margin of 93 votes to one ... ( read original story ...)

Naomi Osaka has established herself as the player to beat on the WTA tour. The 23-year-old has claimed the last two Majors she has entered - the US Open and the Australian Open - while also going ... ( read original story ...)

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach promised to deliver a "safe, secure" Tokyo Olympics this year as he was re-elected for a second term on Wednesday. As he opened the IOC Session, ... ( read original story ...)

The athletic apparel giant Nike is celebrating Black women with its We Play Real campaign featuring a one-minute ad featuring Black female athletes. ( read original story ...)

March 10 (UPI) --The stage musical Waitress has opened at Japan's Nissay Theatre. The show premiered Tuesday and is the only production of the celebrated Broadway musical to go on since the global ... ( read original story ...)

Japan on Thursday marks the 10th anniversary of a massive earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster along its northeastern coast. March 12 — A hydrogen explosion occurs at the plant’s No. 1 reactor, ... ( read original story ...)

World No.1 Ash Barty and Australian Open champion Naomi Osaka will both play in next month's Stuttgart Grand Prix women's tournament in Stuttgart which will be played behind closed doors because of ... ( read original story ...)

Six-times world champion Kom, 38, has been boxing for 20 years but had to wait for the London Games in 2012 for a shot at an Olympic medal when women were allowed to compete for the first time. Pretty ... ( read original story ...)

In the decade since the strongest earthquake in Japan’s history triggered a huge tsunami that slammed into the eastern coastline, the cleanup effort has become one of the world’s most expensive, ... ( read original story ...)

BERLIN (Reuters) - This summer's Tokyo Olympics will be in the spotlight at a three-day virtual meeting of the International Olympic Committee starting on Wednesday, as organisers of the postponed ... ( read original story ...)

"My records have stood for a long time and for a while I thought they may never be broken," says Williamson, who was born with cerebral palsy and won silver and bronze medals at the 2004 Athens ... ( read original story ...)

Mio Sugita earns notoriety for accusations that women lie about sexual violence and LGBT community are ‘unproductive’ Last modified on Wed 10 Mar 2021 01.49 EST Of all the candidates for Japan’s most ... ( read original story ...)

Group 1 National Futurity winner Zipping Sapporo heads to Dapto for the first time on Thursday and steps up to a middle distance for the first time. The lightly raced daughter of Aston Dee Bee (ex ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (AP) — The Olympic torch relay is yet another hurdle for the postponed Tokyo Games. It kicks off in two weeks from northeastern Japan. Any stumble could sew more doubts about the risk of holding ... ( read original story ...)