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“If I catch Covid, I will recover. If I win a gold medal, I’ll be an Olympic champion for life”. Grenadian javelin thrower and first-time Olympian Anderson Peters, interviewed on Jamaican channel SportsMax about going to the Tokyo Olympics. The Games start in 24 days.

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International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach is set to visit Hiroshima on July 16 as part of efforts to promote peace ahead of the contentious staging of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo. Citing "sources close to the matter", Kyodo News reports that Bach is planning to go to the site which was devastated by an atomic bomb in the final year of the Second World War. It also reported that there are plans for IOC vice-president John Coates to make a trip to Nagasaki - another city hit by the nuclear weapon - on the same day Bach arrives in Hiroshima. The visits to the two cities are expected to mark the start of the Olympic Truce - adopted by the United Nations - which is set to be observed from July 16 to September 12. The resolution aims to ensure a halt to all hostilities, allowing the safe passage and participation of athletes and spectators for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in the Japanese capital. About 140,000 people died in Hiroshima after an atomic bomb was dropped on the city by the United States Air Forces on August 6 in 1945. Three days later, Nagasaki was bombed by the Americans resulting in around 40,000 deaths before Japan surrendered, bringing the war to an end on August 15. Bach had previously planned to visit Hiroshima in May to coincide with the Torch Relay’s passage through the prefecture before the trip was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The German lawyer and Olympic fencing gold medallist is now reportedly due to arrive in Japan on July 9 - three days earlier than planned - before visiting Hiroshima a week later. Coates has already landed in the host nation ahead of the Olympics which are due to open in less than a month’s time. The Olympic Torch was carried through the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park last month ©Getty Images The Olympic Torch was carried through the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park last month ©Getty Images According to Kyodo News, the planned visits to Hiroshima and Nagasaki are part of the Olympic Truce with the IOC looking to promote peace at a time when it faces opposition over the hosting of the Games due to COVID-19 pandemic. Inspired by the Ancient Games, the IOC revived the Olympic Truce in 1992, and it is now introduced for each edition of the Games. Earlier this month, Japan's opposition leader Yukio Edano called for Bach and other VIPs, such as world leaders, to be banned from attending the Olympics due to COVID-19 concerns. Edano, the head of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, argued that only athletes, referees and support staff should be allowed to attend while warning that Tokyo 2020 could cause an "explosion" of new coronavirus infections. Medical officials have warned the Games could become a "super-spreader" event. The IOC and Tokyo 2020 organisers will implement a series of strict rules they claim will ensure the Olympics and Paralympics are safe and secure, including a reduction in the number of accredited officials and banning visits to tourist areas. More than 80 per cent of people inside the Athletes' Village will be vaccinated or be in the process of inoculation in time for the Games, according to the IOC. The Olympics are scheduled to take place from July 23 to August 8, followed by the Paralympics from August 24 to September 5. IOC President Thomas Bach is expected to visit Hiroshima on July 16 - the first day of the Olympic Truce observation period ©Getty Images
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International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach is set to visit Hiroshima on July 16 as part of efforts to promote peace ahead of the contentious staging of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo.

CHAMPIONSHIP MENTALITY: Keshorn Walcott
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The European football championships are producing some compelling games. And once more this week, I’m moved to use them as another point of reference as the Tokyo Olympics get closer.

The games on Monday, got me thinking about what Keshorn Walcott could do in Japan. But more of him later.

Back to Monday...

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Leah Bertrand of Simplex, fourth from left, eases over the line to win the women's 100 metres with a time of 11.52 seconds ahead of second-place Kamaria Durant also of Simplex (11.90), second from left, and third-placed Shaniqua Bascombe (Cougars), third from left, in 11.97 at the Olympic Trials hosted by the NAAATT at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port-of-Spain yesterday. Anthony Harris
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Local track and field athletes will get their second and final chance to book a spot on the national team for the 2020 Tokyo Games in Japan at the second and final Olympic Trials hosted by the National Association of Athletics Administration of T&T (NAAATT) on Sunday at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Mucurapo, Port-of-Spain.

IOC President Thomas Bach has brought forward his planned arrival date in Japan ©Getty Images
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International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach is set to arrive in Tokyo for the delayed Olympic Games on July 9, according to reports.

British Para-athlete Stefanie Reid described the speculation about Tokyo 2020 as "exhausting" ©Getty Images
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The Olympic and Paralympic Games are meant to be the ultimate test for competitors from around the world, and so it has proved with the mental strength of would-be Olympians and Paralympians challenged as never before by the incursions of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Athletes could be allowed to demonstrate at the Olympic Games under certain conditions ©Getty Images
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Athletes are set to be allowed to demonstrate inside venues at the delayed Olympic Games in Tokyo after all under measures being considered to give competitors greater scope to express their views during the event.

Japanese culture and heritage on display as posters represent Tokyo 2020 themes of diversity, joy and solidarity.
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Diversity, joy and solidarity is the message behind two iconic Tokyo 2020 posters, which have been chosen to symbolise and promote the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2021.

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