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2024 PARIS OLYMPICS

Members of Japan's women's Tokyo 2020 Olympic volleyball team. Along with table tennis and hockey, volleyball is set to be one of the sports at the 2024 Paris Games in which Japan's female players will don new uniforms that help protect them against secret photography while they compete.
OLYMPICS
Jul 16, 2024
New uniforms to help protect athletes against secret photography
The clothes will be used by Japanese athletes in volleyball, table tennis and hockey at the Paris Games.
Paris La Defense Arena will host swimming events during the 2024 Paris Olympics.
OLYMPICS / Swimming
Jul 16, 2024
World Aquatics to strengthen testing of Chinese swimmers at Games
The first aquatics events of the Paris Games are set to take place on July 27.
Mai Tarumi, who previously volunteered at the postponed Tokyo Olympics in 2021, has a travel budget of ¥1 million for her trip to volunteer at the Paris Games.
OLYMPICS
Jul 14, 2024
She’s paying ¥1 million to help behind the scenes at the Paris Olympics
While news sites have suggested that being a volunteer is a way to attend the Games for “free,” that doesn’t apply to international volunteers like Mai Tarumi.
Japanese athletes during a send-off ceremony for the upcoming Paris Games, in Tokyo on July 5.
OLYMPICS
Jul 13, 2024
Mental health experts to join Japan delegation at Paris Olympics
It will be the first Summer Olympics during which such experts, called "welfare officers," will accompany Japanese athletes.
Japanese businessman Kazunori Takishima, seen at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, has attended four Summer Games and four Winter Games since his first in 2006.
OLYMPICS
Jul 12, 2024
Japanese superfan with Olympic-sized wallet eager to make new memories in Paris
The 48-year-old Tokyo native spends large chunks of his disposable income on Olympic tickets.
Caeleb Dressel dives into the pool during the men's 100-meter freestyle event at the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials in Indianapolis on June 18.
OLYMPICS / Swimming
Jul 11, 2024
Swimming star Caeleb Dressel preparing to dive into uncharted waters in Paris
Dressel will defend two of his three individual titles at the Paris Games.
The Clippers' Kawhi Leonard will skip the Paris Olympics to focus on his preparations for the upcoming NBA season.
OLYMPICS / Basketball
Jul 11, 2024
Kawhi Leonard withdraws from Olympics; Derrick White added to Team USA roster
Celtics guard Derrick White will play for Team USA in place of the Clippers star.
Russian Andrey Rublev holds his gold medal on the podium after the Tokyo Olympic mixed doubles competition in August 2021. Rublev declined an invitation to the Paris Games.
OLYMPICS
Jul 11, 2024
List of Russian athletes for Paris Games continues to shrink
Athletes from Russia and Belarus, Moscow's closest ally in the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, are barred from the Paris Games unless they compete as neutrals.
Olympic rings are displayed on Charles de Gaulle Airport near Paris ahead of the city hosting the 2024 Olympic Games. One way of reducing the carbon emissions of mega sporting events is to limit the attendance of spectators traveling by air.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 10, 2024
Only locals should be allowed to attend the Olympics
The single best way of reducing the carbon emissions of an Olympics? Limiting ticket sales to locals. Evidence from the Tokyo Games shows how far-reaching the impact is.
Olympic rings and the Paris 2024 logo adorn Terminal 1 of Charles de Gaulle Airport near Paris.
WORLD
Jul 10, 2024
Strike call threatens Paris airports' Olympics preparations
Unions announced a one-day stoppage on July 17 to press for bigger Olympics bonuses and staff recruitment.
The Paris 2024 Olympic Games' opening ceremony, which will be held outside of a stadium for the first time in history, has attracted a lot of interest from Japanese fans.
JAPAN / Society
Jul 10, 2024
Japan fans shun pricey Olympics tickets even as top-tier packages sell out
Travel agencies report a noticeable drop in demand for Paris Olympics tours amid a weakening of the yen and the introduction of a new booking system.
World Anti-Doping Age President Witold Banka speaks during an event in Lausanne, Switzerland, in March 2023.
OLYMPICS
Jul 10, 2024
Independent probe clears WADA of favoritism in Chinese swimmers case
WADA President Witold Banka was in fighting form after the executive board had met and endorsed the report that cleared his agency.
U.S. soccer player Lindsey Horan speaks during a U.S. Olympic women's and men's team news conference in New York on Monday.
OLYMPICS
Jul 9, 2024
U.S. regrouped and ready to go after dismal World Cup, says Horan
Just eight members of the Tokyo Games team are traveling to Paris on the 18-player Olympic roster
Asami Yoshida (center) practices with Japan at the National Training Center in Tokyo in January.
OLYMPICS / Basketball
Jul 8, 2024
Asami Yoshida bringing experience and swagger to Akatsuki Japan for Paris Olympics
The veteran point guard was Japan's captain at the 2016 Olympics.
Joel Embiid, who has French citizenship, will suit up for the U.S. at the 2024 Paris Games.
OLYMPICS / Basketball
Jul 8, 2024
U.S. star Joel Embiid ready to hear boos from French crowd during Olympics
Embiid received his French passport in 2022 and many thought he would play for France or his native Cameroon in his first Olympics.
Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands celebrates as she wins gold in the women's 10,000 meters at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
OLYMPICS
Jul 7, 2024
Sifan Hassan: From 'shy' refugee to Olympic champion
At the delayed Tokyo Olympics in 2021, Hassan became the first athlete ever to win medals in the 1,500, 5,000, and 10,000.
Fencer Misaki Emura (left) and breaker Shigekix, whose real name is Shigeyuki Nakarai, during a send-off ceremony in Tokyo on Friday
OLYMPICS
Jul 5, 2024
Japanese athletes get rousing send-off ahead of Paris Olympics
Three years after hosting the Tokyo Olympics, Japan is preparing to send almost 400 athletes to the Games in the French capital.
Seven-Eleven Japan holds a demonstration of delivering freshly baked pizza in Tokyo on Thursday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 5, 2024
Japan convenience stores boosting quick delivery services
Over 3,000 products such as drinks, snacks and daily goods are currently available for delivery from 7-Eleven.
Japan's Tatsuru Saito competes during the 2022 world championship in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
OLYMPICS / Judo
Jul 4, 2024
Japan's Tatsuru Saito aims to emulate late father with judo Olympic gold
Hitoshi Saito was a judo great who triumphed at consecutive Olympics in 1984 and 1988 at over 95 kilograms.
During the Olympics, only medalists are automatically tested, but the International Testing Agency wants to find ways to target potential dopers before the end of an event.
OLYMPICS
Jul 4, 2024
Anti-doping testing agency sharpens its tools for Paris Olympics
Benjamin Cohen, director general of the ITA, said potential tools as its disposal included biological and performance passports as well as a mountain of other data.
Who needs AI when you have Hatsune Miku?
Over the first six months of 2024, a handful of songs using Vocaloid singer Hatsune Miku’s voice have enjoyed widespread attention, underlining a global interest in the character and the technology she represents.
Bloodied Trump survives assassination attempt at political rally
Former U.S. President Donald Trump is surrounded and evacuated by Secret Service agents at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday. Trump was rushed off stage at the rally after shots rang out.
Shooter came within inches of killing Trump, but left few clues as to why
An aerial view shows the stage where Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump had been standing during an assassination attempt the day before, and the roof of a nearby building where a gunman was shot dead by law enforcement, in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Sunday.
Yen’s woes seem too big for even a BOJ hike this month to solve
The Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo
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Tenugui towels hang up to dry at a dyeing company in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on May 8. The durable and versatile tenugui, which many people have in their homes, can be used in many ways to cool one’s body.
How to beat Japan’s summer heat in ways better for the planet
Tenugui towels hang up to dry at a dyeing company in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on May 8. The durable and versatile tenugui, which many people have in their homes, can be used in many ways to cool one’s body.
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She’s paying ¥1 million to help behind the scenes at the Paris Olympics
Mai Tarumi, who previously volunteered at the postponed Tokyo Olympics in 2021, has a travel budget of ¥1 million for her trip to volunteer at the Paris Games.
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