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

Until the end, nothing will have been spared the organizers of the Olympics-2020.

Less than 36 hours before the official kick-off, the organizing committee dismissed Kentaro Kobayashi, the artistic director of the opening ceremony, because of a questionable joke on the Holocaust in an old skit over 20 years old.

This dismissal comes just a few days after the resignation of Keigo Oyamada, composer of one of the musical themes of the same opening ceremony, also caught up in his past.

In March, another artistic director, Hiroshi Sasaki, had resigned for having suggested to dress up a Japanese actress and star of social networks as pork with assumed curves.

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Face of the day

Or rather the emoji of the day: one of these pictograms used on social networks was created in honor of gymnastics star Simone Biles, a first for a sportswoman on Twitter.

Its emoji represents a ... goat wearing a leotard, a gold medal around its neck, in reference to the title of best gymnast in history (Greatest of all time, GOAT, word which means goat in English), that she readily claims.

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Unusual of the day

The quality of the water at the Odaiba nautical base, south-east of Tokyo, does not smell of sanctity ... The site of the open water swimming and triathlon events would smell of toilets. "There is no bad smell", swept a local elected Shigeru Eonomoto who went there to smell the situation. The Tokyo-2020 organizing committee had nevertheless installed a sophisticated filtering system to protect swimmers from possible wastewater. But residents of Odaiba, interviewed by AFP, expressed doubts about the quality of the water. "I haven't seen the bay recently because it's closed for the Games, but the water wasn't really clean before," said Ayako Kinoshita, 35. A 40-year-old, who requested anonymity, said she could "smell smells after the rain, when it's hot "and confided not to let her two children play in the water. Takashi Murakami, 82, assured that he had not heard the rumors about the" stinking bay ":" may -being that I'm used to (the smell) ".

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Perf of the day

Brazil and Richarlison gave a lesson to Germany 4-2 at the opening of the men's Olympic tournament for the re-edition of the final of the 2016 Olympics, painfully won by the Seleçao (1-1, 5 tab to 4).

The reigning Olympic champions didn't need Neymar to pull off an offensive festival with no less than three goals scored in the first thirty minutes thanks to Richarlison alone.

The Everton striker became the first Premier League player to score a hat-trick in an Olympic tournament.

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Photo of the day

Overwhelming!

American gymnast Sunisa Lee in beam training three days before the start of the Olympic 2020 gymnastics events.

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