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A man walks past the Olympic rings in Tokyo, Monday, June 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara) **FILE**

Public health experts: Olympics can be held safely, if changes are made

By Andy Kostka - The Washington Times

In this Friday, Aug. 5, 2016, file photo, a couple sit on a dock to look at the sails of the Sydney Opera House that are illuminated with the green and gold colors of the Australian Olympic team, as Australia pushes to host the 2032 Olympics. Brisbane will be offered as the 2032 Olympics host, IOC president Thomas Bach said Thursday June 10, 2021, for International Olympic Committee members to confirm in Tokyo next month. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File) **FILE**

Brisbane set to be named 2032 Olympics host next month

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

A man wearing a protective mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus walks past a banner for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games on May 11, 2021, in Tokyo. The Japanese government was quick to respond on Tuesday, May 25, 2021, to U.S. travel warning for Americans against traveling to Japan and denied impact on Olympic participants, as the country determinedly prepares to host the postponed games in two months. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) **FILE**

IOC member: Cancellation of Tokyo Summer Games ‘essentially off the table’

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this May 21, 2021, file photo, CEO of the Tokyo 2020 Toshiro Muto, left, and President of the Tokyo 2020 Seiko Hashimoto, right, listen to IOC Vice President John Coates, (on screen), delivering a speech during the Tokyo 2020 IOC Coordination Commission press conference in Tokyo. Comments from Coates saying the Tokyo Olympics will go on even if the city is under a state of emergency have stirred a backlash in Japan. Coates made the statement a few days ago. He repeated what the IOC and local organizers have been staying, but his tone was almost defiant and has stirred things up. (Nicolas Datiche/Pool Photo via AP, File) **FILE**

John Coates, IOC vice president, faces backlash saying Olympics are on, no matter virus

By Stephen Wade and Yuri Kageyama - Associated Press

In this Feb. 3, 2021, file photo, exile Tibetans use the Olympic Rings as a prop as they hold a street protest against the holding of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, in Dharmsala, India. Groups alleging human-rights abuses in China are calling for a full boycott of the Beijing Olympics, which is sure to ratchet up pressure on the International Olympic Committee, athletes, sponsors, and sports federations. A coalition of activists representing Uyghurs, Tibetans, residents of Hong Kong and others, issued a statement Monday, May 17, 2021, calling for the “full boycott,” eschewing lesser measures like “diplomatic boycotts&quot; and negotiations with the IOC or China. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia, File)

AP Exclusive: Full-blown boycott pushed for Beijing Olympics

By Stephen Wade - Associated Press

In this Feb. 24, 2021, file photo, people walk past posters to promote the Olympic Games scheduled to start in the summer in Tokyo. Frustration is mounting over Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s request that people cooperate while he pushes to hold the Olympics in just over two months. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File) **FILE**

IOC says negative public opinion is no threat to Tokyo Games

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

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)

Japan’s PM Yoshihide Suga: ‘I’ve never put the Olympics first’

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Sebastian Coe, president of World Athletics, listens to a reporter's question during a press conference as Coe visited 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 - Associated Press

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 - Associated Press

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

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More tests and still more questions loom over Tokyo Olympics

By Stephen Wade - Associated Press

Toshio Muto, CEO of Tokyo 2020, attends a press conference after a Tokyo 2020 executive board meeting Monday, April 26, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. (Nicolas Datiche/Pool Photo via AP)

Tokyo Olympic rules ‘playbook’ update to feature daily testing, no quarantine

By Stephen Wade - Associated Press

Seiko Hashimoto, the head of the Tokyo Olympics (Tokyo 2020) organizing committee, holds a Tokyo 2020 folder during a Tokyo 2020 executive board meeting Monday, April 26, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. (Nicolas Datiche/Pool Photo via AP)

More tests, no quarantine in updated Tokyo Olympic rules

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee President Seiko Hashimoto, center gestures as she observes Japan women's national team candidates staging a match in the operational test event of Rugby in preparation for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Tokyo Stadium Thursday, April 22, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Tokyo under ‘emergency orders’ with Olympics 3 months away

By STEPHEN WADE and MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

In this Sunday, May 31, 2020 file photo, Jadon Sancho of Borussia Dortmund celebrates scoring his teams second goal of the game with a 'Justice for George Floyd' shirt during the German Bundesliga soccer match between SC Paderborn 07 and Borussia Dortmund at Benteler Arena in Paderborn, Germany. Athletes who make political or social justice protest at the Tokyo Olympics were promised legal support Thursday April 22, 2021, by a global union and an activist group in Germany. The pledges came one day after the International Olympic Committee confirmed its long-standing ban on “demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda” on the field of play, medal podiums or official ceremonies. (Lars Baron/Pool via AP, File) **FILE**

Olympic athletes promised legal support if they protest

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga declares a state of emergency for Tokyo and three other prefectures during the government task force meeting for the COVID-19 measures at the prime minister's office Friday, April 23, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, Pool)

Tokyo under ‘emergency orders’ with Olympics 3 months away

By Stephen Wade and Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

FILE - The bobsled track in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, is shown in this Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021 file photo. The International Olympic Committee reluctantly accepted plans to spend 50 million euros ($60 million) to rebuild an abandoned bobsled track in Cortina d’Ampezzo for the 2026 Winter Games — as long as the funds stay out of the games’ budget. After the IOC’s periodic coordination commission visit Monday, April 19, 2021 which was held virtually, the Olympic body said it “again expressed its concerns with regard to the legacy of the track.” The century-old track in Cortina was closed 13 years ago for financial reasons. (AP Photo/Gabriele Facciotti, File)

IOC reluctantly accepts plan for 2026 Cortina bobsled track

Associated Press

The last Olympic torch relay runner for the Osaka leg concludes the event in Suita, north of Osaka, western Japan, Wednesday, April 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

Tokyo takes on steep price to hold Olympics

By Stephen Wade - Associated Press

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 - Associated Press

A protester from the Uyghur community living in Turkey holds up an anti-China placard during a protest against the visit of China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi to Turkey, in Istanbul, Thursday, March 25, 2021. Hundreds protested against the Chinese official visit and what they allege is oppression by the Chinese government to Muslim Uyghurs in the far-western Xinjiang province. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

EXPLAINER: Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and some options

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press