The Netherlands have qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games after winning the Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship in Antwerp.
New Zealand qualified for the men's final at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic hockey test event as they battled back to beat India 2-1.
The stadium, infrastructure and organisation for hockey at the 2020 Olympic Games will be put under the microscope this week as part of the Ready Steady Tokyo series of test events.
Argentina triumphed in the women's hockey competition here at the Lima 2019 Pan American Games to secure a spot at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
The nations competing at the test event for hockey at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games next week have been confirmed.
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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All eyes are on Tokyo this week as the World Judo Championships bring the martial art back to the country of its birth. Mike Rowbottom reports as IJF President Marius Vizer makes a return of his own among sport's biggest players.
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