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People who are against the Tokyo 2020 Olympics set to open in July, march around Tokyo's National Stadium during an anti-Olympics demonstration Sunday, May 9, 2021, (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
Nishikori raises questions about holding the Tokyo Olympics
By Andrew Dampf
4 hrs ago
FILE - In this April 28, 2021, file photo, IOC President Thomas Bach, on a screen, waves to Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee President Seiko Hashimoto at the start of a five-party meeting of Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo. Bach has canceled a trip in May 2021 to Japan because of surging cases of COVID-19 in the country, the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee said Monday, May 10, 2021 in a statement. Hashimoto said last week that the trip would be “tough” for Bach to make, which was interpreted in Japan as meaning it was canceled. (Franck Robichon/Pool Photo via AP, File)
IOC's Thomas Bach cancels Japan trip because of virus cases
By Stephen Wade
5 hrs ago
Swimmer Cate Campbell receives a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination at the Queensland Academy of Sport in Brisbane, Australia, Monday, May 10, 2021. The Australian government announced after a special National Cabinet meeting that Olympic participants would be vaccinated under a priority group which includes health-care workers, Indigenous people aged over 55 and people older than 70. (AP Photo/John Pye)
Vaccine a shot in the arm for Campbell's Olympic preparation
By John Pye
9 hrs ago
Chicago Sky trade Gabby Williams to Los Angeles Sparks
16 hrs ago
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Sparks acquired Gabby Williams from the Chicago Sky for rookie Stephanie Watts and the rights to German guard Leonie Fiebich...
Koretzky, Lecomte give France sweep of MTB World Cup opener
23 hrs ago
ALBSTADT, Germany (AP) — Victor Koretzky and Loana Lecomte gave France a sweep of the first men's and women's World Cup mountain bike races of the season...
Naomi Osaka of Japan reacts during her match against Karolina Muchova of the Czech Republic during their match at the Madrid Open tennis tournament in Madrid, Spain, Sunday, May 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Paul White)
Naomi Osaka conflicted over holding the Tokyo Olympics
By Andrew Dampf
May. 09, 2021 09:01 AM EDT
Japanese woman athletes compete during their 100 meter race at an athletics test event for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Games at National Stadium in Tokyo, Sunday, May 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)
Two Tokyo Olympics: Inside and outside the National Stadium
By Stephen Wade And Yuri Kageyama
May. 09, 2021 08:21 AM EDT
Australian Olympic Committee ensures Indigenous inclusion
May. 07, 2021 09:18 PM EDT
SYDNEY (AP) — The Australian Olympic Committee amended its constitution at its annual general meeting on Saturday to ensure there’s a permanent Indigenous...
Kemar Lawrence leaves Anderlecht for Toronto
May. 07, 2021 08:27 PM EDT
TORONTO (AP) — Jamaican defender Kemar Lawrence has joined Major League Soccer's Toronto from Belgium’s Anderlecht. The 28-year-old signed...
US surfer John John Florence injured in Australian event
May. 07, 2021 07:39 PM EDT
PERTH, Australia (AP) — Two-time world surfing champion John John Florence has a knee injury which he hopes won't prevent him from representing the United...
Van der Poel, Ferrand-Prevot win short track MTB races
May. 07, 2021 04:43 PM EDT
ALBSTADT, Germany (AP) — Mathieu van der Poel and Pauline Ferrand-Prevot confirmed their status as the favorites in mountain biking at the Tokyo Olympics by...
The Latest: Virus KOs Canada from Olympic gymnastics event
By The Associated Press
May. 07, 2021 04:17 PM EDT
The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world: ___ Canada will not send a gymnastics...
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga responds to a reporter's question after he spoke at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday, May 7, 2021. Suga announced an extension of a state of emergency in Tokyo and other areas through May 31. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)
Packed trains, drinking: Japanese impatient over virus steps
By Mari Yamaguchi
May. 07, 2021 08:44 AM EDT
Seiko Hashimoto, president of the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee, speaks during a press conference Friday, May 7, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. Hashimoto said Friday that a planned visit to Japan this month by IOC President Thomas Bach seemed unlikely with a state of emergency order being extended by the government to Tokyo and other areas until May 31.(Kyodo News via AP)
Tokyo Olympic head says Bach visit to Japan could be 'tough'
By Stephen Wade
May. 07, 2021 08:09 AM EDT
In this photo provided by SailGP, date not known, Nina Curtis poses for a portrait in Hamilton, Bermuda. Curtis has been picked to join the defending champion Australian SailGP team for the rest of the season as part of a developmental program designed to bring women into the global league. Curtis, who won a silver medal at the 2012 London Olympics and sailed with Team Brunel on the final five legs of the 2017-18 Volvo Ocean Race, beat out Lisa Darmanin in a training camp during the season-opening regatta in Bermuda two weeks ago. (Bob Martin/SailGP via AP)
Top Aussie female sailor Curtis picked to join SailGP squad
By Bernie Wilson
May. 06, 2021 09:01 PM EDT
US women to play Summer Series in Texas ahead of Olympics
By Anne M. Peterson
May. 06, 2021 03:19 PM EDT
The U.S. women's national team will play Portugal, Jamaica and Nigeria during a five-match Summer Series next month in Texas. U.S. coach...
FILE - In this Sept. 2, 1960 file photo, Tamara Press of Russia heaves the shot during the Women's shot put qualifying round at the Summer Olympic Games in Rome, Italy. Three-time Olympic champion Tamara Press has died at the age of 83. The Russian track federation says Press died in the hospital on April 26, 2021 without giving a cause of death. Press competed for the Soviet Union and won gold in the shot put and silver in the discus at the 1960 Rome Olympics. She won gold in both events four years later at the 1964 Tokyo Games. (AP Photo, file)
Olympic track and field champion Tamara Press dies at 83
May. 06, 2021 12:39 PM EDT
FILE - In this Aug. 2, 2016, file photo, Canada's Mandy Bujold, left, knocks down Uzbekistan's Yodgoroy Mirzaeva during a women's flyweight 51-kg preliminary boxing match at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Tokyo Olympics fate for Canada’s best boxer lies in the hands of the Court of Arbitration for Sport after her qualifying tournament was scrapped due to the pandemic. Bujold and her lawyer, Sylvie Rodrigue, lost their appeal to the International Olympic Committee earlier this week, leaving CAS as her last chance to box in what would be her final Olympics. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)
Canadian boxer Mandy Bujold fighting for Olympic berth
May. 06, 2021 10:30 AM EDT
FILE - In this Feb. 24, 2020, photo, the Olympics rings are reflected on the window of a hotel restaurant as a server with a mask sets up a table, in the Odaiba section of Tokyo. The vaccine rollout in Japan has been very slow with less than 1% vaccinated. This of course is spilling over to concerns about the postponed Tokyo Olympics that open in just over three months.(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
Pfizer and BioNTech to donate vaccines for Olympic athletes
May. 06, 2021 10:10 AM EDT
FILE - In this March 25, 2021, file photo, a "No Olympics" banner is placed by protesters in Tokyo during a demonstration against the going ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. An online petition calling for the Tokyo Olympics to be canceled has gained ten of thousands of signatures since being launched in Japan just a few days ago. The rollout comes with Tokyo, Osaka and several other areas under a state of emergency with coronavirus infections rising — particularly new variants. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae, File)
Anti-Olympic petition gains tens of thousands of signatures
By Yuri Kageyama And Stephen Wade
May. 06, 2021 06:24 AM EDT