GB have also smashed their pre-Games target of at least 48 medals, which was set by UK Sport. That means Rio 2016 is the nation’s most successful ‘away’ Games in history….Rio Olympics 2016: Team GB beat China to finish second in medal table.

China won nine artistic gymnastics gold medals at the Beijing Games in 2008 and four in London four years later, but finished with just two bronze medals in 2016. The 2020 Olympics will start on July 23 after being delayed by a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Countries With The Most Female Olympic Gymnastic Gold Medals

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The 2020 Summer Olympic Games are scheduled to take place between 23 July and 8 August, and the Paralympic Games between 24 August and 5 September. Ministers and organisers have now decided to ban all spectators from the Olympics. A decision will be made about spectators at the Paralympics by 16 July.

The Olympics, which open July 23 and run through Aug. 8, fall entirely under the emergency period, while the Paralympics open Aug. 24. Basically, the July 23 opening ceremony at the new $1.4 billion US National Stadium will be without paying fans.

Key Background. After weeks of speculation, the organizers Monday announced that domestic fans will be allowed to attend events at the Tokyo Olympics, but venues will have a spectator limit of 10,000 or up to 50% of capacity to minimize the risk of spreading Covid-19.

Olympics will allow limited number of local fans Venues will be limited to 50 percent capacity, with up to 10,000 domestic fans able to attend events when the games open next month, organizing committee officials and the International Olympic Committee announced Monday.

Spectators from overseas were barred from attending in March in a major concession to the realities of the pandemic. The president of Tokyo 2020, Seiko Hashimoto, said that the International Olympic Committee had agreed that crowds would be allowed up to 50 percent of a venue’s capacity, up to 10,000 people.

Is there a drink you’ll only ever drink during the Olympics? AW: They do not have—or at least I have never seen—alcohol readily available in the dining hall of the Village.

Alcohol will be banned at the Tokyo Olympics. Organizers of the Tokyo Olympics said on Wednesday that they would ban alcohol at the Games, bowing to an outcry from a Japanese public that is deeply skeptical of hosting the event and weary of months of pandemic restrictions.

Alcohol has been considered a banned substance at any competition under World Archery rules since the start of 2018, when it was removed from the prohibited list by the World Anti-Doping Agency. World Archery has continued to test for alcohol at its international events.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) have published the 2018 list of prohibited substances, with a number of minor changes being announced. “WADA is pleased to publish the 2018 prohibited list,” WADA President Sir Craig Reedie said. …