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The Olympic rings are seen at Yokohama Baseball Stadium as the venue is prepared for softball competition at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Thursday, July 22, 2021, in Yokohama, Japan. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Guinea pulls out of Olympics over COVID concerns

By Andy Kostka - The Washington Times

United States' goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher, center, reacts at the end of a women's soccer match against Sweden at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, July 21, 2021, in Tokyo. Sweden won 3-0. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)

U.S. women’s soccer suffers 3-0 loss to Sweden to open Olympics, ending 44-game unbeaten streak

By Andy Kostka - The Washington Times

United States' Kyle Frederick Snyder reacts after defeating Georgia's Elizbar Odikadze during the men's 97-kg freestyle wrestling competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2016. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Wrestler Kyle Snyder had to change course on his quest to become the greatest

By Matthew Paras - The Washington Times

The Olympic rings float on a barge ahead of the 2020 Summer Olympics, Monday, July 19, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

U.S. gymnast alternate tests positive for COVID-19 at Olympics

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach offers flowers to Hiroshima Memorial Cenotaph during his visit Friday, July 16, 2021, in Hiroshima, western Japan. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, Pool)

IOC’s Bach gets mixed reaction in one-day visit to Hiroshima

By Haruka Nuga and Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

IOC President Thomas Bach, left, speaks to Tokyo 2020 President Seiko Hashimoto, not in photo, during their meeting at the Tokyo 2020 Headquarters Tuesday, July 13, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. Bach appeared in public on Tuesday for the first time since arriving in Tokyo last week with the pandemic-postponed Olympics opening in just 10 days. (Takashi Aoyama/Pool Photo via AP)

IOC’s Bach slips up and refers to Japanese as ‘Chinese’

By Stephen Wade - Associated Press

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach waves from the vehicle to media upon his arrival an accommodation Thursday, July 8, 2021, in Tokyo. Bach arrived on Thursday, July 8, 2021, in Tokyo as Japan Prime Minister Yoshihde Suga was set to declare a state of emergency that is likely to result in a ban on fans from the Tokyo Olympics as coronavirus infections spread across the capital. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, Pool)

IOC president arrives in Tokyo, greeted by state of emergency

By Mari Yamaguchi and Stephen Wade - Associated Press

Gwendolyn Berry, left, looks away as DeAnna Price and Brooke Andersen stand for the national anthem after the finals of the women's hammer throw at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials Saturday, June 26, 2021, in Eugene, Ore. Price won, Andersen was second, and Berry finished third. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) **FILE**

Gwen Berry continues left’s great divide of America

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Women carry their children on their bicycles as they ride through an intersection near a sporting arena planned to be used during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo Thursday, June 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

Tokyo shapes up to be No-Fun Olympics with many rules, tests

By Stephen Wade - Associated Press

Louis Oosthuizen, of South Africa, gets ready for his tee shot during the third round of the U.S. Open Golf Championship, Saturday, June 19, 2021, at Torrey Pines Golf Course in San Diego. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) **FILE**

Top-heavy field for Olympic golf still missing some stars

By Doug Ferguson - Associated Press

Journalists gather at Multifunctional Complex at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Village during a media tour Sunday, June 20, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Tokyo Olympics to allow limit of 10,000 local fans in venues

By Stephen Wade - Associated Press

In this April 9, 2018, photo, New Zealand's Laurel Hubbard reacts after failing to lift in the snatch of the women's +90kg weightlifting final at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, Australia. Hubbard will be the first transgender athlete to compete at the Olympics. Hubbard is among five athletes confirmed on New Zealand's weightlifting team for the Tokyo Games. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) **FILE**

Olympics hit with backlash after first-ever transgender athlete qualifies on women’s side

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this May 17, 2021, file photo, a local athlete competes during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Game Cycling BMX Freestyle test event at Olympic BMX Course of Ariake Urban Sports Park in Tokyo. IOC officials say the Tokyo Olympics will open on July 23 and almost nothing now can stop the games from going forward. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File) **FILE**

U.S. Olympic athlete strives for medal ‘so I can burn a U.S. flag on the podium’

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

Tokyo 2020 CEO Toshiro Muto, left, and President Seiko Hashimoto attend the news conference after receiving a report from a group of infectious disease experts on Friday, June 18, 2021, in Tokyo. The experts including Shigeru Omi, head of a government coronavirus advisory panel, issued a report listing the risks of allowing the spectators and the measurements to prevent the event from triggering a coronavirus spread. (Yuichi Yamazaki/Pool Photo via AP)

Top medical adviser says ‘no fans’ safest for Tokyo Olympics

By Stephen Wade and Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

People walk by posters to promote the Olympic Games planned to start in the summer of 2021, in Tokyo, Wednesday, June 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Japan announces easing of coronavirus state of emergency ahead of Olympics

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

In this May 9, 2021, file photo, people who are against the Tokyo 2020 Olympics set to open in July, march to protest around Tokyo's National Stadium during an anti-Olympics demonstration. Public sentiment in Japan has been generally opposed to holding the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. This is partly based of fears the coronavirus will spike as almost 100,000 people — athletes and others — enter for both events.(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File) **FILE**

Coronavirus fears stir opposition to Olympics

By Stephen Wade and Kantaro Komiya - Associated Press

A woman walks by the Olympic Rings near the National Stadium in Tokyo Wednesday, June 9, 2021. Roads were being closed off since last Tuesday around Tokyo Olympic venues, including the new $1.4 billion National Stadium where the opening ceremony is set for July 23.(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

LOVERRO: Australian taxpayers next in line to be fleeced by IOC gangsters

By Thom Loverro

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 May 24, 2021, file photo, former sumo stable master Chiganoura, left, receives his first dose of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine at the Ryogoku Kokugikan sporting arena. The arena, mainly used for sumo wrestling tournaments, is being used as a temporary inoculation venue for residents over 65 years old in Tokyo. Japan, seriously behind in coronavirus vaccination efforts, is scrambling to boost daily shots as the start of the Olympics in July closes in. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File) **FILE**

Tokyo converts Olympics public-viewing site to a mass-vaccination center

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this Monday, April 9, 2018, file photo, New Zealand's Laurel Hubbard, a trans female, participates in the women's +90kg weightlifting final at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, Australia. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) ** FILE **

Rival calls transgender weightlifter competing in Olympics ‘unfair’

By Andy Kostka - The Washington Times