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Fireworks explode during the opening ceremony.
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by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Aug 6, 2016 | Entertainment
The Summer Olympic Games kicked off Friday night in an opening ceremony headlined by supermodel Gisele Bundchen at the fabled Maracana stadium. Brazil unfurled the event with a gutted budget, a reflection of Brazil’s tough economic times which nonetheless...
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The Tokyo Stadium, one of the proposed Olympic stadiums for the 2020 Summer Olympic games, is seen in this computer-generated file handout image. Reuters
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 12, 2016 | Sports
Japan denied on Thursday allegations of a $1.5 million payment made during the winning bid for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic games, saying they had won it cleanly. Britain’s The Guardian newspaper reported Wednesday that the Tokyo bid team “or those acting on...
