Showing posts with label Tokyo Olympics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tokyo Olympics. Show all posts
Thursday, August 12, 2021

Barbie apologizes for its oversight on omitting an Olympic Asian doll, but its more complicated than that

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Toymaker Mattel says the skateboarder Barbie, upper right, was supposed to be Asian. OPINION If you're going to use racial diversity as ...
Tuesday, August 10, 2021

Tokyo Olympics: Wrapping up the Olympics for AAPI athletes

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Japanese American Michael Norman won a gold medal as a member of the 4x400 relay. The Tokyo Olympics ended Sunday. Some athletes got all the...
Saturday, August 7, 2021

Tokyo Olympics: The sky is the limit for 13-year old bronze medal winner in skateboarding

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Great Britain's Sky Brown flies high at her first Olympics. She's a bundle of optimism and energy and she just won a bronze medal in...

Tokyo Olympics: U.S. karateka finishes fourth with "no regrets"

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USA KARATE The United State's Sakura Kokumai's journey will not end with the Olympics. For Sakura Kokumai, the long, lonely journey ...
Tuesday, August 3, 2021

A shameless appeal: The Olympics from an AAPI lens; follow me on Twitter and at my blog, Views From the Edge

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Tennis star Naomi Osaka was chosen to light the Olympic Flame to begin the Games. FRIENDS, If you haven't read these stories about AAPI ...
Monday, August 2, 2021

Tokyo Olympics: Spikes and digs. U.S. volleyball teams challenged; unsung hero Libero Justine Wong-Orantes

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Justine Wong-Orantes, as a defensive specialist, is often seen diving for the ball. Other countries in Asia and Europe have professional vol...
Sunday, August 1, 2021

Tokyo Olympics: A distracted Suni Lee still earns a bronze medal on uneven bars

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NBC American Sunisa Lee didn't feel right Sunday during her uneven bars routine. An Olympic bronze medal is nothing to sneeze at but Sun...

Tokyo Olympics: Taiwanese Americans lead U.S. fencing team to a bronze medal.

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USA FENCING Alexander Massialas, 2nd from right, and Gerek Meinhardt, far right, were part of the U.S. team winning a bronze medal at the To...
Saturday, July 31, 2021

Tokyo Olympics: Asian Canadians win medals for their country's swimming team

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Canada’s 400 free relay silver medallists (from left) Penny Oleksiak, Rebecca Smith, Maggie MacNeil and Kayla Sanchez A  pair of Asian Canad...
Thursday, July 29, 2021

Tokyo Olympics: Suni Lee wins gold medal in best all-around gymnastic performance

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The United States's Sunisa Lee with her newest hardware, an Olympic gold medal. With all of the media focusing on gymnast Simone Biles a...

Tokyo Olympics: Japanese American swimmer wins silver in 1,500 meter race

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NBC Erica Sullivan, left, celebrates with teammate and gold medalist Katie Ledecky. Usually, all the media's attention is on the gold me...
Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Tokyo Olympics: Paige 'McFierce' McPherson battles her way to fourth in taekwando

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SCREEN CAPTURE / NBC Paige McPherson, left, in one of her taekwondo matches in Tokyo. Paige McPherson fell just shy of bringing home her se...

Tokyo Olympics: Filipino American cyclist finishes 7th in road race

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SCREEN CAPTURE U.S. cyclist Coryn RIvera in an earlier race. It’s been 37 years since U.S. women’s cycling won an Olympic medal in the road ...