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DONALD TRUMP MAY ATTEND TOKYO 2020 OLYMPICS
BY DAN PALMER
Donald Trump has said he is considering travelling to Japan for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
The United States President told media he had been invited to attend by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe.
Trump was asked about his plans today during a trip to Los Angeles, where he signed an agreement promising Government support for the 2028 Olympics and Paralympics in the Californian city.
“We’ll make that determination, he said on his Tokyo plans.
“We haven’t made it yet.
“We might.
“We’re going to try if we can.”
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics will run between July 24 and August 9.
If Trump does decide to travel, it will mean a break in his campaigning ahead of this year’s Presidential election.
The Republican is bidding for a second and final four-year term in office at the ballot in November.
According to Reuters, he is due to have a “limited schedule of foreign travel this year”.
Trump did not attend the one Olympics which has taken place during his first term, the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang in South Korea.
Vice-president Mike Pence attended instead, with the Games taking place amid strained rhetoric between Trump and North Korea over nuclear weapons.
The North agreed to compete but had threatened to withdraw after Pence had promised the “toughest and most aggressive” sanctions on the secretive state after his arrival in Asia.
Trump later claimed that Pyeongchang 2018 would have been a “total failure” without his work to get North Korea to compete.
His daughter Ivanka led the US delegation at the Closing Ceremony.
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Olympic rings removed from Eiffel Tower
The Olympic rings installed on the Eiffel Tower since June to celebrate the upcoming Olympic Games were removed from the Parisian monument early on Friday morning, as confirmed by an AFP photographer. But the Paris City Hall intends to replace them with a more permanent structure until 2028.
The five-coloured rings, measuring 29 metres in length and 15 metres in height, were placed between the first and second levels of the iconic iron structure on 7 June.
According to Inside the Games publication, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo wants the Olympic symbol to continue decorating the monument until the 2028 Games in Los Angeles.
But the descendants of the tower’s creator, Gustave Eiffel are opposing the move. They are insisting that the Olympic rings are aesthetically in conflict with the concept and design of the Tower.
The 30-tonne rings initially installed on the Eiffel Tower were also not designed to withstand winter weather conditions.
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Despite Egypt winning 3 medals at Paris Olympics, President Al-Sisi orders sports system overhaul
Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi ordered a comprehensive evaluation of sports federations that participatedat the Paris Olympic Games, following a mission report submitted by the country’s sports minister.
The mandate includes a thorough expenditure check and a performance review to better highlight areas of improvement and fund allocation in future Games.
Additionally, the president plans to take necessary measures against federations —such as limiting funds— that had negative results in the Paris Games.
Egypt’s participation in sports where it lacks a competitive advantage will also be limited, as the president aims to direct resources to promising athletes to ensure optimal results. The president also aims to reduce administrative and technical staff within Olympic delegations and task relevant ministries with preparing future Olympic athletes.
Al-Sisi’s Olympic overhaul is to be presented to the cabinet for approval and urged the government to prioritise amending the sports law for the House of Representatives for review.
Egypt took home a total of three medals in the Summer Games. Ahmed El-Gendy triumphed in modern pentathlon, Sara Samir claimed the silver in weightlifting, and 21-year-old fencer Mohamed El-Sayed earned the bronze.
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Paris 2024 Games break record ticket sales
Paris 2024 sold a record 12 million tickets for the Olympics and Paralympics, beating the Games record previously set by London 2012, organisers said on Sunday.
Some 9.5 million tickets were sold for the Olympics and 2.5 million for the Paralympics, which end on Sunday.
In 2012, London organisers set the record for the Paralympics with 2.7 million tickets sold but only 8.2 million were sold for the Olympics.
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