- Manga featured in opening ceremony for Tokyo Olympics
![Snaefridur Sol Jorunnardottir and Anton Mckee, of Iceland, carry their country's flag during the opening ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 23, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan.]()
- Lindahl is a steadying force in goal for Sweden at Olympics
![Sweden's goalkeeper Hedvig Lindahl, center, catches the ball during a women's soccer match against United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, July 21, 2021, in Tokyo.]()
- Portuguese surfer Frederico Morais tests positive for COVID
![FILE - In this Tuesday, June 15, 2021 file photo, Portuguese surfer Frederico Morais practices for a World Surf League competition at Surf Ranch, in Lemoore, Calif. Portugal's Olympic team says that surfer Frederico Morais will miss the Games after having tested positive for the coronavirus despite being vaccinated. The team says that Morais won't travel to Tokyo on Friday, July 23, 2021 as planned. The 29-year-old Morais qualified for the Games after finishing as the top-ranked European surfer at the 2019 World Surfing Games held in Japan.]()
- US water polo captain Jesse Smith misses opening ceremony
![FILE - In this Aug. 8, 2016, file photo, United States' Jesse Smith, left, shoots as Spain's Balasz Sziranyi Somogyi defends during their men's water polo preliminary round match at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Smith is heading to his record-tying fifth Olympics after he was selected Friday, July 2, 2021, for the U.S. men's water polo team for the Tokyo Games.]()
- Olympics ceremony uses music from Japanese video games
![Natalia Santos of Angola, carry her country's flag during the opening ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 23, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan.]()
- Unvaccinated US swimmer sparks debate as Olympics start
![FILE - In this Aug. 11, 2016, file photo, United States' Tom Shields competes in a men's 100-meter butterfly semifinal during the swimming competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A debate is fomenting between former gold medalist Maya DiRado and some American swimmers over Andrew's decision not to be vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus on the eve of competition at the Tokyo Olympics.]()
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![France's Karim Benzema gestures as he is substituted by France's Olivier Giroud during the Euro 2020 soccer championship round of 16 match between France and Switzerland at the National Arena stadium, in Bucharest, Romania, Monday, June 28, 2021. (Marko Djurica/Pool Photo via AP)]()
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![FILE - In this April 8, 2021 file photo, Tokyo Aquatics Centre, venue for the swimming and diving finals at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The Tokyo Aquatics Centre is a site to behold -- a towering, 15,000-seat venue that will host swimming and diving at the pandemic-delayed Summer Games.]()
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![FILE - In this April 6, 2018, file photo, Australia's Cate Campbell, right, embraces her sister Bronte Campbell after their women's 50m freestyle semifinal at the Aquatic Centre during the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, Australia. Even before the coronavirus pandemic, the Australian swimming siblings have had their share of health concerns.]()
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![A volunteer works outside the Nippon Budokan stadium for judo ahead of the 2020 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 23, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan.]()
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![Hanna Prakatsen of the Russian Olympic Committee competes during the women's rowing single sculls at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 23, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan.]()
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![FILE - U.S. Olympic Team archer Brady Ellison lets an arrow fly as he practices on his range in Miami, Ariz., in this Thursday, April 30, 2020, file photo. Ellison is the top-ranked archer in the the world and the favorite at the Tokyo Games. A few years ago, he wasn't sure if he would even shoot another arrow again.]()
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![FILE - In this 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. Professional boxers will fight at the Olympics this month for the second time following a century of exclusively amateur competition in the sport. More than 40 fighters with pro experience are listed in the Tokyo Olympic field, a sharp increase from just three pros in Rio de Janeiro.]()
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![FILE - In this July 21, 2021, file photo, athletes exercise during a swimming training session at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. With hundreds of swimmers scrambling to get their warmup done at the same time, multiple athletes in each lane, everyone diving over one another and some competitors using snorkels, kickboards and other paraphernalia, warmup is organized chaos.]()
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![FILE - Anna Van Der Breggen, of the Netherlands, celebrates after crossing the finishing line to win the women's cycling road race final at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in this Sunday, Aug. 7, 2016, file photo. The men's and women's road races kick off the cycling program at every Summer Olympics. "Everybody in the world is trying to figure out how to beat the Dutch girls," said Jim Miller, the high performance director for USA Cycling.]()
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![United States soccer fans react before a CONCACAF Gold Cup soccer match against Canada in Kansas City, Kan., Sunday, July 18, 2021.]()
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![United States' Foluke Akinradewo Gunderson gestures during a women's volleyball training session at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Thursday, July 22, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. A third trip to the Olympics was far from a sure thing for Gunderson when she gave birth to her first son in November 2019. But Gunderson had set a goal of being both a mother and professional athlete and took advantage of the delayed Olympics to make it back again this year in search of that elusive gold medal.]()
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![FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2014, file photo, Tri Bourne makes a dig as he and John Hyden played Casey Patterson and Jake Gibb during the AVP Championships beach volleyball match at Huntington Beach, Calif. American beach volleyball player Taylor Crabb is out of the Olympics after several positive COVID-19 tests, and Bourne will take his place as the partner of four-time Olympian Jake Gibb when the competition begins at Tokyo's Shiokaze Park this weekend. (Kyusung Gong/The Orange County Register, File)]()
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![First lady of the U.S. Jill Biden poses for a photo with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and his wife Mariko in Tokyo, Thursday, July 22, 2021. Biden embarked on her first solo international trip as first lady, leading a U.S. delegation to the Olympic Games in Tokyo, where the coronavirus is surging and COVID-19 infections have climbed to a six-month high. (Kyodo News via AP)]()
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![Australia's Lachlan Wales celebrates scoring his side's opening goal against Argentina during a men's soccer match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Thursday, July 22, 2021, in Sapporo, Japan.]()
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![Brazil's Richarlison celebrates scoring his side's opening goal against Germany during a men's soccer match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Thursday, July 22, 2021, in Yokohama, Japan.]()
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![The US women Volleyball team practice during a team training session at Ariake Arena at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Thursday, July 22, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan.]()
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![Japan's Takefusa Kubo, right, celebrates his goal with teammates during a men's soccer match against South Africa at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Thursday, July 22, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan.]()
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![Naomi Osaka, of Japan, practices ahead of the 2020 Summer Olympics at Ariake Tennis Center, Monday, July 19, 2021, in Tokyo.]()
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![Novak Djokovic, of Serbia, practices for the men's tennis competition at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Thursday, July 22, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan.]()
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![FILE - In this Aug. 17, 2016, file photo, Luisito Pie, of the Dominican Republic, left, and Jesus Tortosa, of Spain, compete in a men's Taekwondo bronze medal final at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016. One of the world's top-ranked taekwondo fighters is taking vacation in the Dominican Republic instead of competing at the Tokyo Olympics after being surprisingly excluded from the Games by the Spanish federation. Tortosa is among a few athletes worldwide who earned Olympic qualification but won't be in Japan because in some sports the final decision on picking the teams is made by the local federations.]()
