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TOKYO — The hottest athletes at the entire Tokyo Olympics may be the goalies in field hockey. Consider the conditions during Tuesday’s semifinal between Belgium and India: a heat index of 100 ...
The 27-year-old Belgian track and field star has spent the last couple of years prepping for Tokyo 2020, ever since he ran a personal best of 13:13.02 in 2019 to qualify for the 5,000 meters.
However, Belgium's Olympic pedigree is actually rather light. Before Van Avermaet's triumph in Tokyo, you had to go back to 1984 for a cycling gold, while they've only won five medals this millennium.
Julie Vanloo remembers the moment she first met Kevin Durant, her basketball idol. Entering the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, the ...
Template for Tokyo Olympics set a century ago in Belgium, after the Spanish Flu ravaged the world. But there was no vaccine then and Europe was still recovering from World War I.
But the Belgian graphic artist who designed the emblem for the theater is vowing to fight on. The first Tokyo logo came under scrutiny because of its similarity to the theater's emblem.
Third place Harry Edward not shown. (AP Photo) This article is more than 3 years old. The Tokyo Olympics do not mark the first time the world has hosted the games during a pandemic.
More than a century ago, 2,626 athletes from 29 nations descended on Antwerp, Belgium, in August 1920 to compete in the Summer Olympics just a few months after the Spanish Flu had run its course.