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FILE - Soccer player Megan Rapinoe poses for photos on the red carpet of the Women's Sports Foundation's 40th annual Salute to Women in Sports in New York on Oct. 16, 2019. Rapinoe has selected #MeToo founder Tarana Burke's memoir, “Unbound,” for her new book club. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
Goals: Megan Rapinoe launches 'The Call In' book club

Aug. 16, 2021 08:13 AM EDT

Sulamita Fernandes, 7, takes skateboard class from the NGO "CDD Skate Arte," at a public skate park in the City of God favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
Brazil Olympic skateboarding is tropical fairytale for girls

By Mauricio Savarese And Tatiana Pollastri Aug. 06, 2021 02:35 PM EDT

Evita Griskenas of the United States performs during a rhythmic gymnastics individual training session at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Long dominated by Russia, rhythmic gymnastics rising in US

By Claire Galofaro Aug. 05, 2021 02:45 AM EDT

People wearing face masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus walk across a shopping alley near Ueno Station in Tokyo Friday, July 30, 2021. Japan is set to expand the coronavirus state of emergency in Tokyo to neighboring areas and the western city of Osaka on Friday in the wake of a record-breaking surge in infections while the capital hosts the Olympics. (AP Photo/Kantaro Komiya)
Japan to widen virus emergency after record spike amid Games

By Mari Yamaguchi Jul. 30, 2021 03:06 AM EDT

People watch from behind a security fence during the final day of the surfing competition at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, July 27, 2021, at Tsurigasaki beach in Ichinomiya, Japan. The Olympic beach party that never was may be the only sore spot for surfing’s long-awaited debut that finished triumphantly this week. Some local Japanese fans and beachgoers did manage to find a way to lay eyes on the athletes and the competition site once the games began. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
COVID cancels the Olympic surfing beach party that never was

By Sally Ho Jul. 28, 2021 06:01 AM EDT

France's Fantine Lesaffre adjusts her cap during a training session at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre venue for the swimming competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, July 25, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
AP PHOTOS: Taboo in Tokyo, tattoos on display at Olympics

Jul. 26, 2021 08:17 AM EDT

United States' Kaleigh Gilchrist plays against Japan during a preliminary round women's water polo match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
Gilchrist's comeback arrives at Tokyo Olympics

By Jay Cohen Jul. 24, 2021 05:38 AM EDT

Natalia Santos of Angola, carry her country's flag during the opening ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 23, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Olympics ceremony uses music from Japanese video games

By Walsh Giarrusso Jul. 23, 2021 07:45 AM EDT

Drones flying over the National Stadium during the opening ceremony of 2020 Tokyo Olympics is seen from Shibuya Sky observation deck Friday, July 23, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
The Latest: Osaka lights cauldron at Tokyo opening ceremony

Jul. 22, 2021 09:51 PM EDT

FILE - Former Olympic medalist in fencing Peter Westbrook models the Team USA Tokyo Olympic opening ceremony flag bearer uniform that features cooling technology at the Ralph Lauren SoHo store on July 7, 2021, in New York. Olympic gear makes for lively social media fodder, starting with the hours-long Parade of Nations. The year's wait due to the pandemic has given enthusiasts extra time to ponder what they love or hate. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)
Let the fashion policing begin on opening day of Tokyo Games

By Leanne Italie Jul. 21, 2021 08:16 AM EDT

People wearing face masks walk across an intersection in Tokyo on Thursday, July 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)
Cases surge to 6-month high in Tokyo a week before Olympics

By Mari Yamaguchi Jul. 15, 2021 06:07 AM EDT

United States' Bradley Beal brings the ball up court against Argentina during the second half of an exhibition basketball game in Las Vegas on Tuesday, July 13, 2021. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)
AP source: Beal in protocols, Tokyo Olympics status in doubt

By Tim Reynolds Jul. 14, 2021 08:26 PM EDT

People wearing face masks chat before parting at a train station in Tokyo, Friday, July 9, 2021. A state of emergency began Monday, July 12, 2021, in Tokyo, as the number of new cases is climbing fast and hospital beds are starting to fill just 11 days ahead of the Tokyo Olympics. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)
Explainer: How will the virus emergency affect the Olympics?

By Mari Yamaguchi Jul. 12, 2021 04:38 AM EDT

FILE - First-place finisher Adam Ondra, of the Czech Republic, celebrates after the men's boulder finals at the climbing World Cup in Salt Lake City, in this May 22, 2021, file photo Climbing has always been a niche sport among outdoor enthusiasts. Inclusion in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics will take it mainstream and the world will see just how difficult it is clinging to tiny hand holds with fingers and toes. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
ITF Czech Republic F1, Men Singles

Jun. 29, 2021 12:25 PM EDT

Milwaukee Bucks' Jrue Holiday drives past Brooklyn Nets' Landry Shamet during the first half of Game 3 of the NBA Eastern Conference basketball semifinals game Thursday, June 10, 2021, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
AP source: Middleton, Holiday, Love commit to Tokyo Games

By Tim Reynolds Jun. 22, 2021 05:18 PM EDT

Miami Heat guard Goran Dragic, center, and forward Jimmy Butler (22) watch during the closing minutes of Game 4 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series against the Milwaukee Bucks, Saturday, May 29, 2021, in Miami. The Bucks won 120-103. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
East champs no more, the Heat start to look to what's next

By Tim Reynolds May. 30, 2021 11:37 AM EDT

FILE - In this Feb. 20, 2002, file photo, Jimmy Shea of the United States pushes off during the men's skeleton final at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics on his way to winning a gold medal in Park City, Utah. Shea has been charged with sexual abuse of a child in Utah. He made his first court appearance Monday, March 29, 2021, on one count of aggravated sexual abuse of a child and two counts of sexual battery. The alleged abuse occurred in 2020, court documents show. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)
Olympic gold medalist charged with child sex abuse in Utah

Mar. 30, 2021 02:51 PM EDT

A closed chairlift in Cortina D'Ampezzo , Italy, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021. The granite peaks that majestically encircle the northern Italian winter resort of Cortina glimmer with one of the most prolific snowfalls in years, a cruel joke of nature as Italy’s ski areas have been laid silent by the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
Mountain heartbreak: Italy has deep snow, closed ski resorts

By Colleen Barry Feb. 03, 2021 03:47 AM EST

FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2020 file photo, X Games rookie Colby Stevenson pauses before getting the Best in Snow award in Aspen, Colo. Nearly four years after Stevenson suffered a fractured skull he was on top of the freestyle world at the Winter X Games, winning slopestyle and the Knuckle Huck event last winter. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times via AP, File)
Freestyle skier takes time to reflect each May 8 after crash

By Pat Graham Jan. 31, 2021 03:39 PM EST

German Klaus Schwab, left, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, WEF, listens Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga displayed in screens during a video conference at the Davos Agenda, in Cologny near Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, January 29, 2021. The Davos Agenda, from 25 to 29 January 2021, is a online edition due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak gather global leaders to shape the principles, policies and partnerships needed in this challenging new context. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)
Japan prime minister says he's determined to hold Olympics

By Mari Yamaguchi Jan. 29, 2021 08:10 AM EST