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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

People wearing face masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus walk toward a train station in Tokyo on Friday, April 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

EXPLAINER: What does Japan’s virus state of emergency mean

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

A woman with her dog walks past the Olympic rings in Tokyo, Tuesday, April 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara) **FILE**

Tokyo Olympics torch relay has first positive COVID-19 case

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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

Seiko Hashimoto, president of Tokyo 2020, left, and Toshiro Muto, CEO of Tokyo 2020, attend a media huddle following the IOC Executive Board Meeting at the Tokyo 2020 headquarters in Tokyo, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. (Philip Fong/ Pool Photo via AP)

Tokyo Games delay decision until June on fans — or no fans

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)

Will Japanese Olympians be vaccinated ahead of the public?

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

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 - Associated Press

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 - Associated Press

A bird rests with a backdrop of the Olympic rings floating in the water in the Odaiba section Thursday, April 8, 2021, in Tokyo. Two top officials of Japan's ruling LDP party on Thursday, April 15, 2021, said radical changes could be coming to the Tokyo Olympics. One went as far to suggest they still could be canceled, and the other that even if they proceed, it might be without any fans. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) **FILE**

Officials say Olympic cancellation, no fans still an option

By Mari Yamaguchi and Yuri Kageyama - Associated Press

‘Distance makes sense:’ Semenya pins Olympic hopes on 5,000

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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

Athletes Daryl Homer (Fencing), left, Jordyn Barratt (Skateboard) and Heimana Reynolds (Skateboard) participate in the Team USA Tokyo Olympic closing ceremony uniform 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 - Associated Press

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 - 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

Forgery trial of Olympic powerbroker now set for August

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Australian Olympians Edward Fernon, modern pentathlon, and slalom canoeist Jess Fox pose by a sign at a ceremony to mark 100 days before the start of the Tokyo Olympics in Sydney Wednesday, April 14, 2021. Olympics live sites will be held across Australia during the Olympic Games, from July 23 to Aug. 8 2021, taking advantage of the one hour time zone difference for Australians to watch athletes perform. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Australian Olympians prepare for a Tokyo Games like no other

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Former Olympian Aya Terakawa, participating as an Olympic torch relay runner, poses for the media before she carries the torch during the first day of the Osaka round at a former Expo site in Suita, north of Osaka, western Japan, Tuesday, April 13, 2021. The Tokyo 2020 Olympic kick-off event which was rescheduled due to the coronavirus outbreak was yet rearranged to hold at the former Expo park, instead of public streets, to close off the audience from the even, following the mayor's decision as Osaka has had sharp increases in daily cases since early March. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

Olympic torch runs through empty park in Osaka as cases rise

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

Tirico to host NBC coverage of Tokyo Games from outdoor set

By JOE REEDY - Associated Press

Under blooming cherry blossoms, people wearing protective masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus walk with a backdrop of the Olympic rings floating in the water in the Odaiba section Thursday, April 8, 2021, in Tokyo. Many preparations are still up in the air as organizers try to figure out how to hold the postponed games in the middle of a pandemic. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

AP Photos: Things starting to stir at Tokyo Olympic venues

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 24, 2020, file photo, a man is seen through the Olympic rings installed near the National Stadium in Tokyo. Athletes at the Tokyo Olympics who come down with minor symptoms of COVID-19 could be isolated in a hotel lined up by local organizers of the games. Japan’s Kyodo news agency cited unnamed officials with “knowledge of the plan.” The Japanese news agency on Sunday, April 11, 2021, said organizers are working to secure 300 rooms in a hotel near the Athletes Village. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Report: Hotel will house Olympic athletes with COVID-19

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