Reflecting on Games past: Former US Olympians talk about faith and the mental health challenges

HAMIL R HARRIS, in an article first published on Religion Unplugged, speaks with Dominique Dawes and Rochelle Stevens…
Essay: 3,600 microphones and counting – how the sound of the Olympics is created

In an article first published on The Conversation, JOSHUA REISS, a Reader at the Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London, looks at the evolution of how sound has been recorded and broadcast at successive Olympics…
Tokyo Olympics: Faith events look different as COVID spikes – here’s how

EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER and ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, report on faith outreach initiatives at the Tokyo Olympics…
Superstar Osaka lights flame as Japan’s COVID-hit Olympic Games open

Tokyo, Japan Reuters Japan’s global superstar Naomi Osaka on Friday lit the Olympic cauldron to mark the start of Tokyo 2020, in an opening ceremony shorn of glitz and overshadowed by a pandemic but defined by hope, tradition and gestures of diversity. Postponed by a year due to the coronavirus, the Games are being held […]
Lifestory: The story of one Tokyo man evicted twice, 50 years apart, for Olympic construction

ELAINE LIES, of Reuters, reports from Tokyo on the story of Kohei Jinno…
Tokyo doctors call for cancellation of Olympic Games due to COVID-19

Tokyo, Japan Reuters A top medical organisation has thrown its weight behind calls to cancel the Tokyo Olympics saying hospitals are already overwhelmed as the country battles a spike in coronavirus infections less than three months from the start of the Games. The Tokyo Medical Practitioners Association representing about 6,000 primary care doctors said hospitals […]