#Tokyo Olympics 2021

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Rhythmic gymnast Nicol Zelikman | Tokyo Olympics | 2021 | photo by Oren Aharoni [source]

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Salome Pazhava 🇬🇪 2021 (Tel Aviv & Tokyo)

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There'll be no space between us

(2018, 2021, 2024)

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Tokyo Olympics

Tatsuya Tanaka

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i know ted lasso is just a vehicle to comment on contemporary sports culture but like… the idea that people are so willing to ignore mental health is Appalling

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Mainzelmannchen Riding Bike Jumps 🚴‍♂️🏙️ In Berlin Mainz City Bumper AD TV 10s Gif.

Source: Videos Gif From X.

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Team Israel

five balls | Tokyo Olympics | 2021

Photo by Oren Aharoni

[in qualification + final]

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Tomorrow’s Leaves (2021) [8 min] by Yoshiyuki Momose | Japan

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Nicol Zelikman (🇮🇱) hoop, Tokyo olympics, 2021

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WADA confirms it cleared Chinese swimmers to compete at Tokyo Games citing contaminated samples

The world’s top anti-doping regulator says 23 Chinese swimmers were cleared to compete at the Tokyo Olympics despite testing positive for a banned heart medication because it agreed with Chinese authorities and ruled that their samples had been contaminated.

The World Anti-Doping Agency said Saturday that the swimmers tested positive for the heart medication trimetazidine in the months leading up to the start of the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 but that Chinese authorities told the agency the positives were the result of contamination.

“Ultimately, we concluded that there was no concrete basis to challenge the asserted contamination,” WADA’s senior director of science and medicine Olivier Rabin said in a news release.

The 30-member Chinese swim team won six medals in Tokyo, including three golds. Many of the athletes still compete for China and are expected to swim at the Paris Olympics this summer.

Reports about the doping positives came out Saturday in the Daily Telegraph in Sydney and The New York Times.

WADA responded to what it called “some misleading and potentially defamatory media coverage this week” and explained the process it undertook upon learning about the positive tests.

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What about that time Australia hired a furry artist for the Olympics. Still better art than the ACT centennial hot air balloon.

2021: The Royal Australian Mint puts out a call for artists to submit portfolios of "Japanese style" cartoons, in preparation for a commemorative series of coins and artworks to be released for the Tokyo Olympics.

The campaign would have a cross promotional tie-in with Australia's largest supermarket, Woolworths where 24 million collectables themed on the artworks would be given away.

It wasn't until the final artist was selected that they realised the people at the Royal Australian Mint had somehow mistaken the anthropomorphised animal-humans that seemed popular on the internet for a popular children's cartoon franchise.

“They knew exactly what they wanted," explained the artist, "we worked together to make sure they got what they envisioned, I tailored what I made to their examples/feedback. They just didn’t know there was a word for it, basically, or that it was SO popular.”

Needless to say, when the artworks were released online people immediately called a spade a spade, headlines were made around the world, and the furry community expressed bemused joy that the Australian government had apparently just released an official fursona.

Unfortunately for those innocent soles that had planned the campaign, given they had just minted $24 million worth of furry coins they couldn't exactly scrap the whole thing, and they were forced to just push ahead while doing their best to ignore the large community of internet oddballs salivating at their every move.

Anyway, here's some of the art:

Here's some of the collectable cards given out free to kids by Woolworths:

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The might peach of Imani-Lara Lansiquot propelling her to a bronze medal in the 4x100m relay at the Tokyo Olympics.

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NHKBSの「河瀬直美が見つめた東京五輪」で「重大な放送倫理違反」　虚偽字幕問題めぐりBPOが意見書