Japanese wrestling legend Kaori Icho has ended her bid for an unprecedented fifth consecutive Olympic gold medal at Tokyo 2020.
Japan’s former junior world champion Umi Imai clinched victory on the final day of the Tokyo 2020 wrestling test event.
Yui Sakano overcame team mate Atena Kodama in the women's 62-kilogram final at the Tokyo 2020 wrestling test event.
Hosts Japan are assured of success at the Tokyo 2020 wrestling test event, as Yui Sakano and Atena Kodama reached the women’s 62-kilogram final.
Female athletes will take the limelight at the Tokyo 2020 wrestling test event which begins tomorrow.
Georgia claimed a pair of gold medals on the first day of Greco-Roman finals at the World Wrestling Championships in Nur-Sultan.
Reigning Olympic champion Kyle Snyder was one of three American gold medallists in the wrestling competition here at the Lima 2019 Pan American Games.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
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Cloud computing technology supplied by China's Alibaba is rapidly transforming the Olympic broadcasting operation, with ticketing set to follow. David Owen looks into the future.
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