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A man wearing a protective mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus walks at pre-opened Main Press Center (MPC) for Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Tokyo Big Site Friday, July 2, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) **FILE**

Serbian arriving for Tokyo Olympics tests positive

By Stephen Wade - Associated Press

In this Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, file photo, Phillippines' Eumir Felix Marcial, left, and Uzbekistan's Israil Madrimov fight in their men's middleweight boxing semifinal at the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia. The International Boxing Association (AIBA) allowed professional boxers into the Olympics for the first time in Rio, but just three competed, and none did well. The COVID-affected qualification process and a general disinterest among top pros means there won't be any household names fighting in Tokyo, either. There are several pros in the field, but most, like Filipino middleweight Eumir Marcial, kept a foot in each boxing world during the pandemic. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File) **FILE**

Boxing aims for calm, cool Olympics after years of drama

By Greg Beacham - Associated Press

Members of Uganda’s Olympic team arrive at Narita Airport in Narita, near Tokyo Saturday, June 19, 2021. A member of the team has tested positive for the coronavirus and was barred entry into Japan, in the first detected infection among arriving athletes for the Tokyo Games opening in five weeks. (Sadayuki Goto/Kyodo News via AP)

Japan plans to step up COVID-19 protocols for Olympics

By Noah Fleischman - The Washington Times

Erriyon Knighton finishes in third during the final in the men's 200-meter run at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials Sunday, June 27, 2021, in Eugene, Ore. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis) **FILE**

Youth runs wild: Collegians, teens dot track team for Tokyo

By Pat Graham and Eddie Tells - Associated Press

FILE - Serena Williams plays a return to Kazakhstan's Elena Rybakina during their fourth round match on day 8 of the French Open tennis tournament at Roland Garros in Paris, France, in this Sunday, June 6, 2021, file photo. Serena Williams is expected to compete in the Wimbledon tennis tournament that begins on Monday, June 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

Serena Williams to miss Tokyo Olympics

By Noah Fleischman - 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

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

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

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

People walk past the countdown clock for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games near Shimbashi station in Tokyo, Thursday, June 3, 2021, to mark 50 days before the start of the Summer Games. (AP Photo/Kantaro Komiya)

With 50 days left until Tokyo Olympics, 10,000 volunteers drop out

By Stephen Wade and Kantaro Komiya - Associated Press

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

Jose Daniel Zapata Arisrizabal, of Colombia, practices during an Olympic qualifying skateboarding event at Lauridsen Skatepark, Wednesday, May 19, 2021, in Des Moines, Iowa. The questions under the magnifying glass at this past weekend's Dew Tour — one of the last major qualifying events for the games in Tokyo in July — were whether the Olympics is ready for skateboarding and, more tellingly, whether skateboarding is ready for the Olympics. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) **FILE**

Ready or not, skateboarding takes its show to the Olympics

By Eddie Pells - Associated Press

In this April 19, 2021, file photo, a restaurant staff member, center, stands in the middle of a street to promote her establishment at one of the famous commercial districts in Osaka, western Japan, as some of the businesses have closed under the government measures against the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae, File)

‘Like hell’: As Olympics loom, Japan health care in turmoil

By Mari Yamaguchi and Kantaro Komiya - Associated Press

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach delivers an opening speech on a screen at a meeting of the IOC Coordination Commission for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in Tokyo on Wednesday, May 19, 2021, while Tokyo 2020 Olympics organizing committee President Seiko Hashimoto listens. Bach, Hashimoto, Japanese Olympic Minister Tamayo Marukawa and Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike attended a three-day meeting. (Yoshikazu Tsuno/Pool Photo via AP)

IOC offers Tokyo medical help amid calls to cancel Olympics

By Stephen Wade - The Washington Times

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

Swimmer Cate Campbell receives a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination at the Queensland Academy of Sport in Brisbane, Australia, Monday, May 10, 2021. The Australian government announced after a special National Cabinet meeting that Olympic participants would be vaccinated under a priority group which includes health-care workers, Indigenous people aged over 55 and people older than 70. (AP Photo/John Pye)

Vaccine a shot in the arm for Campbell’s Olympic preparation

By JOHN PYE - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 28, 2021, file photo, IOC President Thomas Bach, on a screen, waves to Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee President Seiko Hashimoto at the start of a five-party meeting of Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo. Bach has canceled a trip in May 2021 to Japan because of surging cases of COVID-19 in the country, the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee said Monday, May 10, 2021 in a statement. Hashimoto said last week that the trip would be “tough” for Bach to make, which was interpreted in Japan as meaning it was canceled. (Franck Robichon/Pool Photo via AP, File)

IOC’s Thomas Bach cancels Japan trip because of virus cases

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

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