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JOC Finds 500 Incidents of Online Harassment During Tokyo World Championships

The Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) held a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 15. During the Tokyo World Athletics Championships last month the JOC utilized AI to monitor the sports world’s ever-increasing issue of slander and libel on social media. They reported detecting approximately 500 problematic posts, of which they requested the deletion of around 230 that violated anti-defamation and

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102nd Hakone Ekiden Qualifier Half Marathon Preview

January’s Hakone Ekiden has a big impact on the shape of the fall season for Japanese collegiate men. The top 10 teams at Hakone run this past Monday’s Izumo Ekiden, where 6 runners per team run an average of 7.5 km. 11th-place and lower run Saturday’s Yosenkai, the half marathon used to fill the 10 remaining slots in the Hakone field and the lineup of the select team made up of top-placing