Tokyo (AFP)
They are not all Olympic champions but they are also writing the history of the Tokyo Olympics.
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Story of the day
Brisbane: Without any surprise since only in the running, the city of Brisbane won the organization of the Summer Olympics of 2032. The Australian city was elected by the members of the IOC gathered for their 138th session in the Japanese capital and will succeed to Paris, host of the Olympics-2024, then in Los Angeles, host of those of 2028. Forgotten the designations still contested and obtained via an expensive lobbying behind the scenes then the opening of an envelope followed by hugs or tears of the candidate cities. Since the reform adopted in June 2019, the IOC has started a "targeted dialogue" with a "preferential" candidate city. Brisbane, aided by the influence of the Australian Vice-President of the IOC, John Coates, has enjoyed this status since February. The capital of Queensland,already a candidate for the 1992 Olympics awarded to Barcelona, promises "84% of existing and temporary sites", a key criterion since the Olympic body began a hunt for pharaonic spending.
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Face of the day
The Chilean Fernanda Aguirre (taekwondo) and the Dutch Candy Jacobs (Skateboard), tested positive for the coronavirus in Tokyo, were the first sportswomen present in Japan to have to give up participating in the Games because of the Covid-19.
Aguirre, who came from Uzbekistan where she had prepared, declared herself "destroyed" on social networks.
Candy Jacobs said she was "overwhelmed" by the news.
"My Olympic adventure ends here. I feel in good health and I have done everything to avoid this scenario, I have taken all the precautions. (...) I will need a little time to digest my disappointment. On the way to Paris-2024 ", she wrote.
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Unusual of the day
Despite the closed session imposed by the organizers in almost all the sites of these Olympics, and in particular in Fukushima, where the softball tournament began, a guest managed to walk in the stadium where the Japan-Australia match took place. .
Tuesday then Wednesday in the early morning a few hours before the meeting, a bear was seen wandering in the stadium.
"We could not find or capture the bear and even though there are no spectators at the stadium, we are on alert and looking for the bear around the site," said a spokesperson for the city. .
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Perf of the day
Sweden managed the first choice performance of these Olympics by crushing the Americans 3-0 on the first day of the football tournament.
The double reigning world champions were yet undefeated for 44 matches (40 wins and 4 draws) and January 2019. And the blow is all the more severe as "Team USA" wanted to take revenge against Sweden, who l 'had already beaten in the quarter-finals of the 2016 Olympics in Rio.
Since the introduction of a women's tournament in Atlanta in 1996, the Americans had previously always reached the final (four Olympic titles and a silver medal).
Coming into play in the 66th minute, star Megan Rapinoe was unable to reverse the trend.
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Photo of the day
The Japanese Yukiko Ueno made the first sporting gesture of the Olympic Games by throwing the first ball in the softball game, a women's version of baseball at the Olympics.
In Fukushima, the Japanese beat the Australians (8-1) during a closed session only interspersed with musical dressing during the changes of players.
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