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Paris Olympics 2024: Japanese gymnastics captain Shoko Miyata withdraws from Games after violating code of conduct by smoking

Teenage star Shoko Miyata is out of the Paris Olympics after violating the Japanese team's code of conduct by smoking in the lead-up to the Games.

Japan's women's artistic gymnastics captain Shoko Miyata has withdrawn from the Paris Olympics after violating the team's code of conduct by smoking.

Miyata's coach, Mutsumi Harada, said the 19-year-old had been "spending her days really burdened with so much pressure".

Shoko Miyata, the 19-year-old captain of the Japan women's artistic gymnastics team, has withdrawn from the squad for the Paris Games after violating the team's code of conduct by smoking, the Japanese Gymnastics Association said on Friday.

JGA officials said Miyata arrived in Japan on Thursday after leaving the team's training camp in Monaco for investigation, which confirmed the violation including drinking alcohol.

The women's squad would compete with four athletes instead of five, the JGA told a media conference.

"We apologise from the bottom of our hearts for this," JGA president Tadashi Fujita said, bowing deeply along with other officials including Miyata's personal coach, Mutsumi Harada.

Hopes had been high for the Japan women's gymnastics team, which was seeking to win a team medal at the Paris Games for the first time since the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.

Miyata had been expected to lead a team comprised entirely of first-time Olympians and teenagers after she secured her Paris berth in May with a third consecutive NHK trophy.

Coach Harada said that while Miyata's conduct had been reckless, she had been under extreme pressure to perform at the highest level.

"She was spending her days really burdened with so much pressure," he said, wiping away tears. "I would implore people to understand that."

Mental health facing young athletes took centre stage at the last Olympic Games in Tokyo when gymnastics superstar Simone Biles pulled out of one competition after another.

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The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) has removed women's national soccer head coach Bev Priestman for the remainder of the Paris Games following an alleged drone spying scandal.

The COC said in a statement released early Friday that assistant coach Andy Spence would lead the defending gold medallists for the remainder of the tournament.

Canada's camp was thrown into disarray this week after two team staffers were sent home for allegedly using a drone to spy on a New Zealand practice.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/2024/07/26/canada-removes-olympic-soccer-coach-drone/

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PARIS (AP) — French transport was thrust into chaos Friday just hours ahead of the Olympics 2024 opening ceremony after a series of coordinated “malicious acts” upended high-speed train lines.

 

Officials said the arson attacks and other vandalism on the rail system were a form of sabotage on a pivotal day of the Games. There was no sign of a direct connection to the Olympics, but authorities are investigating.

 

Travel for hundreds of thousands of travelers was disrupted on the rail system linking Paris to the rest of France and to neighboring countries. No injuries have been reported.

https://apnews.com/article/olympics-2024-malicious-act-trains-opening-ceremony-40159c5b49c44088960b61e944597b07

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Aussie aussie aussie! Oi oi oi!

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That's almost as annoying as "USA" "USA" "USA" "USA"

 

[Mekong]

5 hours ago, bust said:

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If this was in a US publication USA would be joint first because they have 5 medals. You must remember Beijing 2008:when they had less Golds than China but more medals overall and in the US they were in first place 

[Mekong]

To prove the point look at the table now in USA Today

https://sportsdata.usatoday.com/olympics/medal-count

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And the Official table

https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/medals

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