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Officials Say Olympic Cancellation, No Fans Still an Option
Two officials in Japan’s ruling LDP party have suggested separately that the Tokyo Olympics could be in for some radical changes
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100 Days Out: Inside the World Of An Olympic BMX Champion
BMX star Connor Fields enters the final 100 day stretch to the Tokyo Olympics in a familiar position.
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Get a 1st Look at Team USA's Olympic Closing Ceremony Outfits
This year’s uniforms were created with sustainability in mind
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These Olympians Want to Be the Very Best. Do They Know Their Pokemon?
Poor Cutiefly and Leafeon. We made a list of Pokemon, real and fake, and asked these U.S. Olympians to tell which was which. Some fared better than others.
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NBC Sports' Mike Tirico Gave Us a Preview of the Tokyo Olympics… Using Legos
NBC Sports’ Mike Tirico will be the primetime host of the Tokyo Olympics. He took us up on our challenge to give us a preview of what we’ll be seeing once the Tokyo Games kick off using Legos.
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Ralph Lauren Unveils Team USA Closing Ceremony Outfits
Ralph Lauren, the fashion brand that has been the official outfitter for Team USA since 2008, has released images of the closing ceremony uniform to be worn by the United State Olympic and Paralympic teams at the Tokyo Olympics.
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100 Days: Tokyo Olympics Marked by Footnotes and Asterisks
Tokyo pitched itself as “a safe pair of hands” when it was awarded the Olympics 7 1/2 years ago.
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Mike Tirico to Host NBC Coverage of Tokyo Games From Outdoor Set
Mike Tirico won’t be anchoring NBC’s primetime coverage of the Tokyo Olympics from the usual confines of a studio inside the International Broadcast Center.
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‘Super Fan' Prepares for Tokyo Olympics Without Foreign Fans
Kyoko Ishikawa was a back-packing Japanese student in Barcelona in 1992 when she says a “miracle happened.”
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Basketball Legend Sue Bird Is Going for Her Fifth Gold and Team's Ninth
USA Women’s basketball point guard Sue Bird has helped earn her team a gold medal in the last four Olympic Games. Tokyo will likely be her last attempt before she retires.
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USA Track and Field Athlete Nia Ali Sprints to Her Next Olympics Hurdle
American athlete Nia Ali is running toward her second Olympic team, ready to prove she deserves to be there as a mother of two. “It’s not about proving other people wrong, but I like to try to prove myself right.”
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Beach Volleyball Star Kerri Walsh Jennings Strives for Tokyo with New Partner
After earning bronze in the Rio Olympics, 42-year-old Kerri Walsh Jennings aims for her fourth gold in Tokyo with new partner Brooke Sweat. If she qualifies, she would be the oldest beach volleyball player ever to take an Olympic court.
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Olympic Shot Put Champion Ryan Crouser Finds His Mental Edge
At 6 feet, 7 inches tall and 315 pounds, the athlete bench presses 500 pounds but says his progress in finding mental focus has given him a new edge.
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Water Polo Player Johnny Hooper Shows Scars on Road to Tokyo
The Team USA attacker says his grandmother is waiting in Japan to see him play.
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Team USA Shares Excitement for Tokyo 100 Days Out
Hear from Allyson Felix, Megan Rapinoe, Katie Ledecky and other members of Team USA as they share their experience during the pandemic, emotions after the 2020 Games were delayed and the excitement for Tokyo.
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Report: Hotel Will House Olympic Athletes With COVID-19
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, according to Japan’s Kyodo news agency, which cited unnamed officials with “knowledge of the plan.”
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Olympic Gold: Men's Gymnastics Struggling to Survive
The cutback in NCAA athletic programs because of the pandemic is being felt acutely in men’s gymnastics.
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Former USD Student Climbs Toward Olympic History
A former University of San Diego student is hoping to be among the first athletes in the world to climb onto the Olympic podium in Tokyo this summer in a brand new event.
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Olympic Celebrations ‘Couldn't Be More Needed' in Japan
This year’s Olympics in Tokyo, Japan are going to be different, with fewer spectators, restrictions on shouting and a more socially distanced torch relay. But the joy of the celebration is much needed after the world weathered a frightening pandemic, Keir Simmons, senior international correspondent for TODAY, explains.
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Olympic Torch Relay Taken Off Streets of Osaka Over COVID Concerns
The Tokyo Olympic torch relay will not run through the streets of Osaka prefecture next week because of rising COVID-19 cases