The Tokyo Olympics could face further disruption with a tropical storm being forecast to hit Japan’s capital city on Monday. Already the rowing programme scheduled for the Sea Forest Waterway in Tokyo Bay on Monday has been rescheduled and will now take place tomorrow (Sunday). Having won a silver medal at the World championships in 2019 the pair were tipped for a medal but so far they haven’t clicked in Tokyo. Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Nepartak now in the Philippine Sea could jeopardise the staging of other events on Monday’s packed Olympic programme. A tropical depression formed on Friday morning, north east of Guam and the Mariana Islands, and continued to strengthen, eventually becoming a tropical storm.

Source: Irish Independent July 24, 2021 07:35 UTC