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Two women take a selfie with the Olympic rings in the background in the Odaiba section of Tokyo, Thursday, March 12, 2020. Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike spoke Thursday after the World Health Organization labeled the spreading virus a &quot;pandemic,&quot; a decision almost certain to affect the Tokyo Olympics. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

EXPLAINER: Tokyo Olympics march on without fans from abroad

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 16, 2020, file photo, Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan gives an interview to The Associated Press, in Islamabad, Pakistan. Khan has tested positive for Coronavirus, two days after he received his first dose, Khan's special assistance on the health Dr. Faisal Sultan said on Saturday, March 20, 2021. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash, File)

The Latest: UNLV now plans in-person spring graduation

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee President Seiko Hashimoto speaks after a five-party meeting of Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games with International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach, International Paralympic Committee (IPC) President Andrew Parsons, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike and Japanese Olympic Minister Tamayo Marukawa in Tokyo Saturday, March 20, 2021. (Yoshikazu Tsuno/Pool Photo via AP)

Spectators from abroad to be barred from Tokyo Olympics

By Stephen Wade - Associated Press

Seiko Hashimoto, president of the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, speaks during a press conference Friday, March 19, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, Pool)

Tokyo Olympics ready to announce ban on fans from abroad

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

Seiko Hashimoto, president of the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, speaks during a press conference regarding its creative director's comments about a well-known female celebrity, in Tokyo Thursday, March 18, 2021. Tokyo Olympics creative director Hiroshi Sasaki is resigning after making demeaning the comments. Sasaki was in charge of the opening and closing ceremonies for the Olympics, which are to begin on July 23. Last year he told planning staff members that well-known entertainer Naomi Watanabe could perform in the ceremony as an “Olympig.” (Kazuhiro Nogi/Pool Photo via AP)

Tokyo Olympics: Yet another scandal over sexist comments

By STEPHEN WADE and YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

Field hockey coach quits after reports of team dysfunction

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FILE - In this Feb. 24, 2020, file photo, Greek singer Sakis Rouvas wears the uniform of the torch relay runners in Athens, Greece, as he holds the torch of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games during a presentation of the torch relay within in Greece. Organizers have talked in detail about plans for the start of next week's Tokyo Olympic torch relay. The message is simple: exercise extreme caution. The start of the relay on March 25 from northeastern Fukushima prefecture kicks off four months of crisscrossing Japan with the torch. The relay will involve 10,000 runners and the chance of spreading COVID-19 across the country is a real threat.(AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)

Tokyo Olympic torch relay: Masks, quiet cheering and caution

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

FILE - 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 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing in Dharmsala, India. Some kind of boycott is almost sure to affect next year’s Beijing Winter Olympics. It’s driven by the widely reported internment of several million Muslim Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in China, which has been termed a genocide by numerous governments and human rights groups. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia, File)

EXPLAINER: What drives possible boycott of Beijing Olympics

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, file photo, people line up at the Artux City Vocational Skills Education Training Service Center at the Kunshan Industrial Park in Artux in western China's Xinjiang region. A small core of international lawyers and activists are prodding leading Olympic sponsors to acknowledge China's widely reported human-rights abuses against Muslim Uyghurs, Tibetans and other minorities.(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Rights groups and Olympic leaders in Beijing Games stalemate

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

A man and a woman stand with the backdrop of the Olympic rings floating in the water in the Odaiba section in Tokyo, Wednesday, March 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Russian folk song rejected as substitute Olympic anthem

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

A woman walks past the Olympic rings in Tokyo, Wednesday, March 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

IOC and China make vaccine deal for Tokyo, Beijing Olympians

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

In this Nov. 16, 2020, file photo, Thomas Bach, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President, speaks during the joint press conference between IOC and Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) in Tokyo, Japan. The International Olympic Committee is pushing back against reports that the postponed Tokyo Olympics will be canceled and will not open on July 23. The Tokyo Games were postponed 10 months ago at the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, and now their future appears threatened again.(Du Xiaoyi/Pool Photo via AP, File) **FILE**

Thomas Bach re-elected as IOC president until 2025

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

Renzo Costantini shows a picture of American bobsledder James Morgan who died in a crash on the track during the 1981 world championships, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021. Costantini pines for the good old days when drivers and brakemen would come whizzing down the track on one side of the café and then hop off their sleds on the other side and come in for a shot of espresso, a vin brulé or perhaps even a taste of the local grappa. (AP Photo/Gabriele Facciotti)

Cortina craves bobsled revival with 2026 Olympics

By ANDREW DAMPF - Associated Press

Simone says: Olympic champ pushes for change in, out of pool

By BETH HARRIS - Associated Press

Equine herpes affects European preparation for Olympics

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

This July 27, 2019, file photo shows gold medalist United States' Katie Ledecky posing with her medal following the women's 800m freestyle final at the World Swimming Championships in Gwangju, South Korea. Ledecky is a native of Bethesda, Md., a suburb of Washington, D.C. and among at least 40 D.C.-area swimmers are taking part in the Tokyo Olympics swimming trials, hopeful to go for the gold as part of Team USA. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File) **FILE**

Katie Ledecky dives back into competitive water in preparation for Tokyo Olympics

By Beth Harris - Associated Press

This July 27, 2019, file photo shows gold medalist United States' Katie Ledecky posing with her medal following the women's 800m freestyle final at the World Swimming Championships in Gwangju, South Korea. Ledecky is a native of Bethesda, Md., a suburb of Washington, D.C. and among at least 40 D.C.-area swimmers are taking part in the Tokyo Olympics swimming trials, hopeful to go for the gold as part of Team USA. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File) **FILE**

Ledecky wins easily in 1st major swim meet amid pandemic

By BETH HARRIS - Associated Press

Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee President Seiko Hashimoto, center, speaks during a Tokyo 2020 executive board meeting in Tokyo, Tuesday, March 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, Pool)

Tokyo Olympics add 12 women to executive board to reach 42%

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee President Seiko Hashimoto, right, speaks to media after a video conference with the IOC executive board on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021, in Tokyo. Hashimoto, a former Olympics minister and seven time Olympian, was recently appointed the Tokyo 2020 president after her predecessor Yoshiro Mori quit following a backlash over sexist comments he made at an earlier meeting. (Takashi Aoyama/Pool Photo via AP)

It’s March, the month when the Tokyo Olympics were postponed

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

Laurie Hernandez performs in the floor exercise during the Winter Cup gymnastics competition, Saturday, Feb. 27, 2021, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

Olympic gymnast Hernandez enjoys solid return at Winter Cup

By WILL GRAVES - Associated Press