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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 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

Seiko Hashimoto, left, President of the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020), and Toshiro Muto, CEO of Tokyo 2020, bow at the beginning of a news conference Thursday, March 11, 2021, following the International Olympic Committee (IOC) general meeting. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, Pool)

IOC members worry about banning foreign fans from Olympics

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

Seiko Hashimoto, president of the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020), speaks before reporters after a five-party meeting at the Tokyo 2020 headquarters in Tokyo on Wednesday, March 3, 2021. (Du Xiaoyi/Pool Photo via AP)

New Tokyo Olympic president tries to assure Japan on safety

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

FILE - 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. An Australian push to host the 2032 Olympics was elevated overnight to the status of preferred bid, and the people of Brisbane and southeast Queensland state woke up to the news Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)

How and why the IOC could find a 2032 Olympic host so soon

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

Rower Gevvie Stone trains at Lady Bird Lake ahead of the upcoming U.S. Olympic rowing trials, Friday, Feb. 12, 2021, in Austin, Texas. Stone is getting closer to a hopeful return to the Olympics and eventually the medical career she has put on hold for nearly three years. The silver medalist at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics came out of retirement and postponed her medical career as an emergency physician for one last chance at a gold medal. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) **FILE**

Rower Gevvie Stone pursuing Olympics that delayed medical career

By Jim Vertuno - Associated Press

A medical worker fills a syringe with a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Tokyo Medical Center in Tokyo Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021. Japan's first coronavirus shots were given to health workers Wednesday, beginning a vaccination campaign considered crucial to holding the already delayed Tokyo Olympics. (Behrouz Mehri/Pool Photo via AP)

Delayed vaccine rollout latest dark cloud over Tokyo Olympics

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Tokyo Medical Center director Kazuhiro Araki, left, receives a dose of COVID-19 vaccine in Tokyo Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021. Japan's first coronavirus shots were given to health workers Wednesday, beginning a vaccination campaign considered crucial to holding the already delayed Tokyo Olympics. (Behrouz Mehri/Pool Photo via AP)

Japan starts COVID-19 vaccinations with eye on Olympics

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Conservative Party of Canada Leader Erin O'Toole speaks after his win at the 2020 Leadership Election in Ottawa, Ontario, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP) **FILE**

Canada opposition party says Olympics shouldn’t be in China

By Rob Gillies - Associated Press

People walk by signage to promote the Olympic Games, in Tokyo, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. The Olympics are scheduled to open on July 23 but recent polls show about 80% of the Japanese public want the Olympics canceled or postponed. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Tokyo Olympics to pick Mori replacement; is a woman likely?

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

A demonstrator holds a placard protesting the planned Tokyo 2020 Olympic games near a building where Yoshiro Mori was meeting to announce his resignation as the president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee in Tokyo on Friday, Feb. 12, 2021. Mori resigned Friday, following sexist comments implying women talk too much. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

EXPLAINER: Japan’s latest Olympic controversy

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Yoshiro Mori, the president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. (Kim Kyung-hoon/Pool Photo via AP)

Reports: Mori to resign Tokyo Olympics over sexist remarks

By Stephen Wade - Associated Press

This photo shows an interior of hotel room where some passengers who returned to Japan from London are in quarantine, in Tokyo on Feb. 1, 2021. The room has a single bed (120cm x 195cm), a humidifier, an air purifier, and 32-inch screen TV monitor. Because of the emergence in Japan of new coronavirus variants, all people traveling from Level 3 countries and regions, the U.K., South Africa, Ireland and parts of Brazil, have to quarantine at a location designated by the government, usually a hotel near the airport, for at least the first three days. Those who test negative for the virus on their third day can then leave, but they have to remain in self-isolation elsewhere for 11 more days to complete the quarantine. (AP Photo/Mayuko Ono)

A look at what quarantine is like in Olympic-host Japan

By MAYUKO ONO - Associated Press

Wednesday Sports in Brief

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

People walk by a TV monitor showing the Tokyo 2020 Olympics promotion, in Tokyo, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021.(AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Column: Athletes can get in line for vaccines like everyone

By TIM DAHLBERG - Associated Press

People wearing face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus walk on the Odaiba waterfront as Olympic rings is seen in the background in Tokyo, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Tokyo Olympic Q&A: Officials try to explain how games happen

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

The Olympic rings are seen at the empty Odaiba waterfront in Tokyo, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021. The Tokyo Games, postponed in the midst of a pandemic, are scheduled to open on July 23. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

IOC, Tokyo Olympics to unveil rule book for beating pandemic

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

Tokyo Olympics Q&A: 6 months out and murmurs of cancellation

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2020, file photo, Taro Kono, newly appointed minister in charge of Administrative Reform speaks during a press conference at the prime minister's official residence n Tokyo. Kono has said “anything can happen” in regard to the postponed Tokyo Olympics, raising more doubts about the games beginning in just over six months. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

Japan minister says ‘anything can happen’ with Tokyo Games

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

In this Dec. 1, 2020, file photo, a man wearing a protective face mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus walks with the Olympic rings in the background in the Odaiba section in Tokyo. Opposition to the Tokyo Olympics is growing with calls for a cancellation as virus cases rise in Japan. The International Olympic Committee and local organizers have already said another postponement is impossible, leaving cancellation, or going ahead, as the only options. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File) **FILE**

To cancel or not?: IOC, Japan press ahead with Tokyo Games

By Stephen Wade and Yuri Kageyama - Associated Press