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Dani Stevens competes in the women's discus at the Australian Track and Field Championships in Sydney, Sunday, April 18, 2021. Former world champion Stevens has been selected to the Australian team for her fourth Olympics less than a year after fearing she'd miss the Tokyo Games because of a career-threatening neck injury. (Dean Lewins/AAP Image via AP)
No masks, no worries — for now; Aussies preparing for Tokyo
By John Pye
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Seiko Hashimoto, the head of the Tokyo Olympics speaks during a press conference in Tokyo, Friday, April 16, 2021. Tokyo Olympic organizers are again being forced to assure the world that the postponed games will open in just over three months despite surging COVID-19 cases in Japan.(Kyodo News via AP)
Column: The Tokyo Olympics will go on, but in name only
By Paul Newberry
Apr. 16, 2021 04:43 PM EDT
USA's Nathan Chen performs during the men's free skating program of the ISU World Team Trophy figure skating competition in Osaka, western Japan, Friday, April 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)
Chen tops Hanyu to win men's free skate at World Team Trophy
Apr. 16, 2021 10:31 AM EDT
FILE - In this Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019 file photo, IAAF President British Lord Sebastian Coe at the award ceremony during the Weltklasse IAAF Diamond League international athletics meeting in the stadium Letzigrund in Zurich, Switzerland. The Diamond League will hold its season opener in Britain for the first time with Gateshead replacing Rabat as the 2021 campaign’s first host city, it was announced Friday, April 16, 2021. Diamond League chairman Sebastian Coe says it’s an “incredibly important year” with track-and-field athletes preparing for this summer’s Tokyo Olympics as well as next year’s World Athletics Championships in Oregon. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP, file)
Gateshead replaces Rabat for Diamond League season opener
Apr. 16, 2021 07:40 AM EDT
FILE - In this Sunday, Sept. 29, 2019 file photo, Christian Coleman of the United States, gold winner, bites on his medal during the medal ceremony for the men's 100m at the World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar. The fastest man in the world will miss the Tokyo Olympics after failing in an appeal to overturn his ban for missed doping tests, it was announced on Friday, April 16, 2021. American sprinter Christian Coleman did have his ban cut from two years to 18 months by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, file)
Christian Coleman to miss Olympics despite reduced ban
By Graham Dunbar
Apr. 16, 2021 07:31 AM EDT
FILE - In this April 14, 2021, file photo, Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games mascot Miraitowa poses with a display of Olympic Symbol after an unveiling ceremony of the symbol on Mt. Takao in Hachioji, west of Tokyo to mark 100 days before the start of the Olympic Games. Japan is set to raise the coronavirus alert level in Tokyo’s three neighboring prefectures and a forth area in central Japan to allow tougher measures as a more contagious coronavirus variant spreads and doubts are growing whether the Olympics can go ahead. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Pool Photo via AP)
Head of Tokyo Olympics again says games will not be canceled
By Stephen Wade
Apr. 16, 2021 06:34 AM EDT
ITF moves rankings cutoff for Olympic tennis to June 14
Apr. 15, 2021 11:41 AM EDT
LONDON (AP) — The WTA and ATP rankings of June 14 will be used to determine which tennis players earn direct entry into the Tokyo Olympics for singles and...
FILE - In this March 29, 2021, file photo, Japanese Vaccine Minister Taro Kono wearing a face mask with Japanese and EU flags on it speaks during an interview in Tokyo. Kono said on Thursday, April 15, 2021, even if the Olympics go on, there may be no fans of any kind in the venues. He said it's probably Olympics will have to held in empty venues, particularly as cases surge across the country. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)
Officials say Olympic cancellation, no fans still an option
By Mari Yamaguchi And Yuri Kageyama
Apr. 15, 2021 08:01 AM EDT
South African long distance athlete Caster Semenya on her way to winning the 5,000 meters at the South African national championships in Pretoria, South Africa, Thursday, April 15, 2021. Semenya said she's likely to focus on long-distance events for the rest of her career. (AP Photo/Christiaan Kotze)
'Distance makes sense:' Semenya pins Olympic hopes on 5,000
Apr. 15, 2021 07:24 AM EDT
Retired two-time Olympic medalist Andrew Weibrecht poses for a selfie while backcountry skiing on the Nye Mountain Trail on Jan. 31, 2021, just outside Lake Placid, N.Y., in an effort to raise money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. (Andrew Weibrecht via AP
Super-G ace Andrew Weibrecht back on skis for Make-A-Wish
Apr. 15, 2021 02:13 AM EDT
NSW wins toss, bats 1st in Australian domestic cricket final
Apr. 14, 2021 08:23 PM EDT
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Defending champion New South Wales won the toss on Thursday and decided to bat first in the domestic first-class Sheffield Shield...
FILE - In this July 30, 1984, file photo Alex Baumann of Canada celebrates after winning the 400 Meter Individual Medley Swimming event, setting a new World Record time of 4:17.41 at the Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Two-time Canadian Olympic gold medalist Baumann has been named chief executive of Swimming Australia, moving up from his current position as chief strategist at the sport's governing body Down Under. (AP Photo/Pete Leabo, File)
Former Canadian Olympic champion to lead Australian swimming
Apr. 14, 2021 08:05 PM EDT
Huston, Zeuner head US national skateboarding team
Apr. 14, 2021 07:25 PM EDT
VISTA, Calif. (AP) — Nyjah Huston and teenager Brighton Zeuner head the 2021 USA Skateboarding National Team announced Wednesday. A total...
A model displays the Olympic uniforms for Russian athletes in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, April 14, 2021. Russia presents its Olympic kit for the Tokyo Games, which shouldn't depict any symbols of the country. Russian athletes will compete at the Tokyo Olympics as neutral after the Court of Arbitration for Sport last December banned Russia from using its name, flag and anthem at any world championships for the next two years because of state-backed doping. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
Russia's flag banned but national colors on Olympic uniforms
Apr. 14, 2021 07:21 PM EDT
Team USA Tokyo Olympic closing ceremony uniforms are displayed during the unveiling at the Ralph Lauren SoHo Store on April 13, 2021, in New York. Ralph Lauren is an official outfitter of the 2021 U.S. Olympic Team. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
Ralph Lauren unveils crisp white Team USA Olympic uniforms
By Leanne Italie
Apr. 14, 2021 11:51 AM EDT
FILE - Boxers Claressa Shields speaks during a news conference ahead of a women's super welterweight title fight against Eve Dicaire in Flint, Mich., in this Wednesday, March 3, 2021, file photo. Two-time Olympic boxing gold medalist Claressa Shields has a date and an opponent for her mixed martial arts debut with the Professional Fighters League. Shields will fight Brittney Elkin on June 10, the promotion told The Associated Press on Wednesday, April 14, 2021. (Jake May/The Flint Journal via AP, File)
Claressa Shields to make MMA debut with PFL on June 10
By Greg Beacham
Apr. 14, 2021 11:05 AM EDT
FILE - In this March 3, 2020, file photo, the New National Stadium, a venue for the opening and closing ceremonies at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, is seen from Shibuya Sky observation deck in Tokyo. Organizers and the International Olympic Committee are pushing on despite COVID-19 risks, myriad scandals, and overwhelming public opposition in Japan to holding the games. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
100 Days: Tokyo Olympics marked by footnotes and asterisks
By Stephen Wade
Apr. 13, 2021 10:01 PM EDT
Conn Findlay, 4-time Olympic medalist, dies at 90
By Beth Harris
Apr. 13, 2021 08:27 PM EDT
Conn Findlay, a four-time Olympic medalist in the sports of rowing and sailing and a member of two winning America’s Cup crews, has died. He was 90. ...
Thunder sign forward Gabriel Deck
Apr. 13, 2021 05:33 PM EDT
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma City Thunder have signed Gabriel Deck to a multi-year contract. Per team policy, terms of the agreement...
FILE - Lenin Stadium, the main stadium for the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympic Games and a Lenin statue are shown in this July, 1980 file photo. Just to hear chatter in the nation’s capital about a possible boycott of the Winter Olympics in China had to be enough to alarm athletes already deep in preparation for the games. The United States and 65 other countries boycotted the Moscow Olympics. (AP Photo/File)
Column: Olympic boycott chatter shouldn't go any further
By Tim Dahlberg
Apr. 13, 2021 04:07 PM EDT