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Wimbledon cancelled due to coronavirus pandemic
By Reuters,
1838, April 1, 2020 (EAT)
The Wimbledon tennis championships were cancelled for the first time since World War Two as the coronavirus pandemic wiped another blue-riband sports ...
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Postponed Olympics set for July 23 2021 start
By Agencies,
1611, March 30, 2020 (EAT)
The 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games have been rescheduled to start on July 23, 2021 after being postponed due to coronavirus, the International Olympic Commi...
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Nairobi Under-20 Championships preps to continue
By Gilbert Kiprotich,
1556, March 30, 2020 (EAT)
The preparations for the World Under-20 Championships as well as the World Athletics Continental Tour will proceed despite the postponement of the eve...
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Italy to propose extending sports ban to beyond April
By Reuters,
1915, March 29, 2020 (EAT)
Italy's sports minister said he will propose extending the ban on all competitions to the whole of April in an effort to contain the coronavirus. T...
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KIPROTICH: How coronavirus is stretching the 2021 athletics calendar
By Gilbert Kiprotich,
2234, March 26, 2020 (EAT)
@gil_kiprotich After months of speculation, the Olympics Games were finally, as widely expected, postponed to next year due the coronavirus pandemic....
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IOC working toward July-August Olympics in 2021
By Reuters,
1218, March 26, 2020 (EAT)
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is working with sports bodies to arrange a July-August window for the postponed Tokyo Olympics in 2021 and h...
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Rescheduled Tokyo Games may come before summer 2021: Bach
By Reuters,
1527, March 25, 2020 (EAT)
The head of the global Olympic movement said on Wednesday that the rescheduled Tokyo Games faced “thousands” of logistical and financial problems ...
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Van Niekerk looks for positives in Tokyo postponement
By Reuters,
1300, March 25, 2020 (EAT)
Olympic 400m champion Wayde van Niekerk says that while the postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Games due to the coronavirus outbreak was a “downer” th...
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Nairobi World U20 Championships postponed
By Matthews Mutai,
2223, March 24, 2020 (EAT)
The 2020 World Athletics Championships has been postponed, the global governing body announced Tuesday as major sports events continued to tumble unde...
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Kenyan athletes react to Olympics postponement
By Gilbert Kiprotich,
2010, March 24, 2020 (EAT)
With Kenya having established itself as a global sporting powerhouse, the postponement of the Olympic Games is set to affect many athletes who had s...
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Tokyo Games delayed to 2021, easing athletes’ angst
By Reuters,
1752, March 24, 2020 (EAT)
The Tokyo Olympics were postponed on Tuesday to 2021, the first such delay in the Games’ 124-year modern history, as the coronavirus crisis wrecked ...
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IOC to start discussions on possible Tokyo 2020 postponement
By Reuters,
240, March 23, 2020 (EAT)
The International Olympic Committee is stepping up its “scenario planning” for the Tokyo 2020 Games — including a possible postponement — as t...
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What happens if the Tokyo Games don’t go ahead?
By CNN,
1715, March 21, 2020 (EAT)
The Olympic flame arrived in Japan on Friday, marking the beginning of official celebrations for a global sporting event that could still be derailed ...
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Bolt’s former coach calls on IOC to postpone Tokyo Olympics
By Reuters,
1321, March 21, 2020 (EAT)
Usain Bolt’s long time coach called on Friday for this year’s Tokyo Olympics to be put off until 2021 as the Covid-19 Coronavirus continues to cla...
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Safety first, KPL players told
By John Kyanda,
1854, March 20, 2020 (EAT)
As the world continues to come to reality with the COVID-19 pandemic , sports activities are among the worst hit owing to their nature of bringing lar...
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IOC reviewing Games scenarios, cancellation not among them
By Reuters,
1425, March 20, 2020 (EAT)
The International Olympic Committee is considering various scenarios for the Tokyo Games amid the coronavirus pandemic but cancellation is not one of ...
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Coronavirus concerns overshadow Olympic flame arrival in Japan
By Reuters,
1222, March 20, 2020 (EAT)
An Olympic cauldron was ignited in Japan on Friday with a flame carried from Greece, with officials again pledging the Tokyo 2020 Games will proceed d...
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Following in the footsteps of Wanjiru, Kipruto profile keeps rising
By Gilbert Kiprotich,
1147, March 20, 2020 (EAT)
@gil_kiprotich When the heart-breaking news of the death of Samuel Wanjiru broke in May 15, 2011, he might have been only 18 years old but Amos Kipru...
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Coronavirus: Hard times for athletes as AK orders shutdown of training camps
By Gilbert Kiprotich,
2334, March 18, 2020 (EAT)
Gilbert Kiprotich, Chief Athletics Writer Athletics Kenya has ordered all athletics training camps in the country to shut down in the wake of the bit...
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Dissent grows as IOC battles to keep Tokyo Games on track
By Reuters,
1148, March 18, 2020 (EAT)
The International Olympic Committee is facing its strongest headwinds in decades as it prepares to brief national committees on Wednesday on the state...
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