Shooting: Gold favorite Amber Hill Corona-positive – no participation +++ Olympia 2032 in Brisbane +++ Bear alarm at the beginning +++ Olympic news at a glance.
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18 days of the Olympic Games in Tokyo, 18 days full of top sporting performances, happy and tragic moments, curious events and unrelated occurrences. Olympic news of all kinds at a glance:
July 21: Total loss of the Olympic boat of the German quad kayak
A total loss of their four-kayak on the trip to Tokyo shocked the German K4 crew around veteran Ronald Rauhe shortly before the Olympic Games. The parade boat of the German Canoe Association (DKV) was rammed by a forklift while loading in Luxembourg and badly damaged, according to a statement on Wednesday. The forks hit the K4 so badly and destroyed it, “that it was a total write-off.” A replacement boat for Max Rendschmidt, Rauhe, Tom Liebscher and Max Lemke is scheduled to go to Japan this Thursday.
“The trainer and we were pretty relaxed at first. The special thing is that this boat with this type of construction only exists twice in the whole world,” explained Liebscher. “One is now destroyed, the other we have currently used during the preparations in Duisburg. This boat must now go to Tokyo as soon as possible,” said Liebscher.
July 21: IOC awards the 2032 Olympics to Brisbane
Brisbane will host the Olympic Games 2032. The metropolis in the Australian state of Queensland was awarded the contract for the Summer Games in eleven years from the 138th session of the International Olympic Committee in Tokyo. Brisbane had been declared a “preferred applicant” by the IOC in a new award process and was therefore the only candidate for the XXXV games. Olympics to choose from. For Australia it will be the third summer games after 1956 in Melbourne and 2000 in Sydney.
July 21: Five other athletes tested positive for Corona – including top shooter Amber Hill
Five other athletes tested positive for the corona virus before the Tokyo Olympics began. These are the Dutch skateboarder Candy Jacobs (31), the Chilean taekwondo fighter Fernanda Aguirre (23), the Czech table tennis professional Pavel Sirucek (28), the British shooter Amber Hill (23) and a beach volleyball player from UNITED STATES. None of them can take part in the competitions. The hardest hit is the Olympic favorite and world number one Hill. “There are no words that can describe how I feel now,” she said. She was “absolutely destroyed” after the news of the positive test. All affected athletes should not show any symptoms.
July 21: Bear alarm to kick off the games
A furry fan almost succeeded in circumventing the ban on spectators at the Olympic Games in Japan due to the corona crisis. Shortly before the start of the first competition on Wednesday in Fukushima, a collar bear caused a stir inside the Fukushima stadium: As a police spokesman for the AFP news agency confirmed, the intruder could not be found until the start of the first competition. According to the paper, they even played music over the loudspeakers to scare the animal off and ignited firecrackers – but in vain. The bear was nowhere to be found. Regardless of the unwanted guest, the softball game went on without incident. It ended with an 8-1 win for the Japanese hosts.

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