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FOCUS ON-Diving at the Tokyo Olympics
(Reuters) - Focus on diving at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics: THE ABSOLUTE BASICS * There are eight events: men's and women's 3m springboard, synchronised 3m springboard, 10m platform, and synchronised 10m ...
Jun 20, 2021
FOCUS ON-Baseball at the Tokyo Olympics
(Reuters) - Focus on baseball at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics: THE ABSOLUTE BASICS * Baseball returns to the Olympics after being voted off following the 2008 Games in Beijing. * Six teams will be set into...
Jun 20, 2021
FOCUS ON-Softball at Tokyo Olympics
(Reuters) - Focus on softball at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics: THE ABSOLUTE BASICS * Softball temporarily returns to the Olympics after losing its permanent spot following Beijing in 2008. Six women's team...
Jun 20, 2021
FOCUS ON-Artistic gymnastics at the Tokyo Olympics
(Reuters) - Focus on artistic gymnastics at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics: THE ABSOLUTE BASICS *Men compete on six apparatus: floor, pommel horse, rings, vault, parallel bars and horizontal bars. *Women com...
Jun 20, 2021
FOCUS ON-Track cycling at the Tokyo Olympics
(Reuters) - Focus on track cycling at the 2020 Tokyo Olmypics: THE ABSOLUTE BASICS * There will be six different track cycling disciplines at the Tokyo Games -- individual sprint, team sprint, keirin,...
Jun 20, 2021
FOCUS ON-Athletics at the Tokyo Olympics
(Reuters) - Focus on athletics at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics: THE ABSOLUTE BASICS * Athletics was at the heart of the original Ancient Greek Olympics and has been so ever since the modern Games began in ...
Jun 20, 2021
FOCUS ON-Road cycling at the Tokyo Olympics
(Reuters) - Focus on road cycling at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics: The ABSOLUTE BASICS * Road cycling is split into two events for each gender -- a road race and a time trial. * The men's race will see 130...
Jun 20, 2021
FOCUS ON-Boxing at the Tokyo Olympics
(Reuters) - Focus on boxing at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics: THE ABSOLUTE BASICS * The fighters compete over three rounds lasting three minutes with the winner decided on points by five judges using a simi...
Jun 20, 2021
FOCUS ON-Badminton at the Tokyo Olympics
(Reuters) - Focus on badminton at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics: THE ABSOLUTE BASICS * At the Olympics, players compete in best-of-three matches. * To serve, players must hit the shuttlecock below waist hei...
Jun 20, 2021
Republican Party outspends Democrats in May in bid to retake U.S. Congress
By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The fundraising arm of the Republican Party raised less money in May than its Democratic counterpart but spent more, shelling out millions on efforts to win back ...
Jun 20, 2021
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