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Marni’s world tour continues. After making its NYC debut back in September, the Italian label made its way to Tokyo’s Yoyogi National Gymnasium, where it presented its ready-to-wear collection for fall/winter 2023. The event came more than a month after Marni’s creative director laid out his plans to present each new collection in a different city, before […]
A snippet of The Weeknd’s upcoming track “Take My Breath” was used in a promo for the Tokyo Olympics that featured Team USA track and field stars Sydney McLaughlin, Dalilah Muhammad, Athing Mu, and Gabby Thomas. The After Hours artist shared the clip to social media on Monday night and also revealed that the song will be arriving on Friday, […]
Three men on the U.S. épée team took a stand against teammate Alen Hadzic, who has been included in the Olympics despite sexual assault allegations against him. According to Buzzfeed News, the three fencers– Jake Hoyle, Curtis McDowald, and Yeisser Ramirez– all donned pink masks on Friday during their opening match against Tokyo to protest Hadzic’s participation. […]
The opening ceremony for the Tokyo Olympics was far from ratings success. According to preliminary figures, the four-hour televised event drew about 17 million viewers Friday, marking the lowest ratings since the 1992 Barcelona games. The Wrap reports viewership was also down about 36 percent from the 2016 Olympics opener in Rio, which attracted 26.5 […]
The Tokyo Summer Olympics officially kicked off on Friday, with Naomi Osaka lighting the olympic cauldron at the opening ceremony. Hours later, Osaka took to Twitter to express her gratitude for taking part in such an iconic tradition in her home country. “Undoubtedly the greatest athletic achievement and honor I will ever have in my life,” she […]
Kentaro Kobayashi, director for the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Tokyo, has been fired for a Holocaust joke he made over two decades ago, The Daily Beast reports. Olympic Organizing Committee president Seiko Hashimoto confirmed his dismissal in a press conference Thursday, saying the commission was made aware of the resurfaced video containing the joke two […]
Olympic athletes will spend their nights on cardboard beds in an effort to discourage casual sex during next week’s contentious Olympic games. As reported by Dezeen, the bizarre decision by Olympic officials–who are already dealing with two COVID-19 outbreaks within the Olympic Village–was made in hopes that it will discourage “intimacy among athletes,” American distance runner Paul […]
One week ahead of the opening ceremony for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, the first confirmed case of COVID-19 has been found in the Olympic Village. The Associated Press reports that the person, who is identified as “games-concerned personnel,” tested positive Friday and was placed in a 14-day quarantine. “In the current situation, that positive cases arise is something […]
The International Olympic Committee has ruled that athletes will not be permitted to wear Black Lives Matter apparel during the Tokyo Olympics. Per WBTV 3 (via the Associated Press), the IOC revealed two weeks ago it would consider punishing any athletes involved in protests or demonstrations during the ceremonies or on the podium, specifically forbidding it. […]
A 28-year-old Tokyo man has been arrested due to suspicions that he climbed down from a building rooftop with a rope to bust into a store so that he could steal Pokemon cards, Yu-Gi-Oh! cards, and also some cash. Mainchi reports that investigators from the Ikebukuro Police Station believe that Kensuke Nakanishi broke into a trading card store […]
