Japan and China are not the best of friends, and while the international community is pressured to boycott the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics due to human rights abuses, Chinese media was following their nation’s sailing team to the Tokyo 2020 Games. Here are two updates:
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• The Chinese sailing team arrived in Tokyo on July 10, 13 days ahead of the Olympic Games. The 18-member team, including 12 athletes, is China’s first Olympic contingent to arrive in Japan. They will compete in eight of the ten events (all but the Men’s One Person Dinghy and Skiff) and is China’s second-largest presence in Olympic sailing competitions after Beijing 2008. The Chinese team, all wearing masks and eye shields, walked out of the Narita airport before taking an official coach to their hotels…
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