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Text & Photos

Tokyo Summer Olympics

Olympics Text & Photos

A current, credible feed of news and photos, including more than 2,300 stories during the Games, gives you high-traffic content that attracts and retains your online and mobile audience, helping to increase your advertising revenue.

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Basic Coverage

Basic coverage, available through the Sports category in English and French (unless otherwise specified), will include:

  • Canadian preview – One story a week before the Games open, looking at Canada’s team.
  • Spot coverage of pre-Olympic qualifying events, world championships, team announcements.
  • Canadian roundup – Daily story during the Games with quotes that incorporate Canada’s top results.
  • Medal alerts – Breaking quick hits on all Canadian medallists during the Games.
  • International roundup – Daily story from AP that incorporates international highlights during the Games.
  • What Canada Did – Daily list of Canadian results, updated multiple times throughout the Games.

Premium Coverage

Depending on demand from subscribers, premium coverage, available through the Olympics category in English and French (unless otherwise specified), will include all basic content PLUS:

Approximately 100 to 150 stories a day in English and approximately 30 stories a day in French during the Games, including:

  • Previews and features – A selection of 10 Canadian athlete profiles and at least five additional features.
  • Tee-ups – Up to 20 Canadian-focused features to move in advance of key events during the Games (available in English).
  • Canada’s performances – Separate stories with quotes on a select Canadian performance each day.
The Canadian women's 4x100-metre freestyle relay team celebrates their bronze medal finish at the 2016 Summer Olympics, in Rio de Janeiro
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Premium Coverage Continued

  • Social Media – Including curated Twitter lists of key athletes and sports (available in English as news warrants).
  • Quick Quotes – A daily list of the day’s most memorable quotes (available in English only).
  • 5 things to watch – Daily lookahead focusing on Canada's upcoming events and key performances.
  • 5 things to know – Daily item focusing on Canada’s highlights that day (available in English only).
  • Spot news – Wide array of AP and CP spot stories and features, both news and sports.
  • Daily column – AP’s columnists take on the Games' biggest stories (available in English only).
  • Daily viewing highlights – A look at Canadian TV and online streaming highlights each day (available in English only).

COVID-19 coverage

This will be an Olympics like no other as the Games take place in the midst of a global pandemic.

Our reporters will keep a close eye on the COVID-19 situation before and after the Games:

  • Travelling to Japan – A first-hand look at the experience of reporters travelling to Japan for the Games.
  • Pre-Games worries – A story examining how athletes prepared for previous Olympics when there were health or security threats.
  • Complicated journey – A piece examining the challenges in qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics.
  • Watching from home – A story looking at families of athletes, many of whom won’t be able to travel to Japan.
  • Lack of fans? – With attendance expected to be limited, we’ll talk to athletes who have competed in similar scenarios over the course of the pandemic to find out what they’ve done to try to excel in unusual environments.
  • Daily diary – Our reporters will file daily diaries on their experiences covering the Games during the pandemic.
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Real-time & archive photos

Enhance your photo galleries and features with powerful images highlighting each day’s events, top athletes, top Canadians or off-beat topics. Rely on the expertise of more than 85 Canadian Press and AP photo staffers who have shot some of the most memorable and iconic Olympic images over the years.

As part of our regular Photo Wire service, subscribers will receive spot coverage of pre-Olympic qualifying events, world championships and team announcements before the Games, as well as more than 1,500 photos each day during the Games from The Canadian Press and The Associated Press. Approximately 60 photos per day from The Canadian Press will focus primarily on Canadian athletes.

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