TOKYO OLYMPICS: What you need to know right now

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Punishing heat greeted athletes https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/organisers-probe-drinking-incident-tokyo-sizzles-2021-08-01 on Sunday as trackside temperatures soared in the Olympic Stadium after a sizzling night that saw Jamaican Elaine Thompson-Herah crowned fastest woman alive. Sun beating down on a fan-free Olympic stadium produced sweltering conditions https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/s...punishing-heat-dayside-competitors-2021-08-01 for the women's 3000m steeplechase and men's 400m heats. The staging of the Games between July 23 and Aug. 8 coincides with the year's hottest weather in Tokyo.

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