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OLYMPICS

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OLYMPICS
Feb 14, 2013
IOC set to drop wrestling for 2020
The IOC's decision stuns Japan, which collected six wrestling medals at the 2012 London Games.
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Feb 3, 2013
Olympic boxing gold medalist Murata mulls turning pro
Middleweight Ryota Murata, who became Japan's first Olympic boxing champion in 48 years last summer at the London Games, revealed Saturday he is thinking of turning pro.
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WORLD / Society
Feb 1, 2013
Six months on, U.K. schools are losing the Olympic legacy
Near the entrance of York High School in northern England, painted in large letters, are the words of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." It is not a bad motto, particularly for a school that prides itself on its sporting prowess. Along all the corridors and outside...
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Jan 25, 2013
A howler for Tokyo's bid for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games
On Jan. 7, Tokyo put in its bid to host the 2020 summer Olympic Games. So did Madrid and Istanbul. Who wins the coveted bid will not be known until September. But consider some of the barriers to Tokyo winning. First, Tokyo needs to garner more public support, meaning they'll need to get the population...
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Jan 19, 2013
Nagano Games gold medalist Satoya announces retirement
Freestyle mogul skier Tae Satoya, whose gold medal at the 1998 Nagano Olympics made her the first Japanese woman to win Winter Games gold, will retire at the end of this season, her company, Fuji Television Network Inc., said Friday.
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JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Jan 15, 2013
Tokyo hopes this Olympics bid wins
Tokyo's quest to host the 2020 Olympics entered a new stage last week when it presented its candidature file to the International Olympic Committee in Switzerland.
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JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Aug 4, 2012
Today's J-blip: Tokyo train gets the Olympic treatment
Tokyo riders get the gold in commuting with Asics' train-jacking ad campaign.
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LIFE / WEEK 3
Jul 15, 2012
Better late than never for Japan's first, "slowest" Olympian
Have you heard the one about the Japanese runner who took 54 years to finish the Olympic marathon?
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 30, 2011
The end of mutually assured destruction?
Two years ago in Prague, U.S. President Barack Obama put forward his visionary idea of a world free of nuclear weapons. A year ago, a new strategic arms treaty between Russia and the United States was signed in the same city. Now the wave of support for a full ban on nuclear weapons is being transformed...

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