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By Blake Essig, Akanksha Sharma and Emiko Jozuka, CNN Empty stadiums, no fans, and if you’re an athlete it’s probably best to avoid having sex in the Olympic Village just to be on the safe side. No wonder, then, that the Tokyo 2020 Olympics has been forced to break with a number of traditions as

By Ben Morse and Aleks Klosok, CNN Brazil football legends Marta and Formiga created Olympic history on Wednesday in their opening match of the 2020 Tokyo Games. Marta, widely regarded as one of the greatest female footballers of all time, became the first player to score in five straight Olympics after netting in her country’s

By Matias Grez, CNN Sweden laid down an early marker in the women’s Olympic football competition, hammering the US Women’s National Team 3-0 on Wednesday. Stina Blackstenius’ brace and Lina Hurtig’s thumping header gave Sweden a deserved victory, with the US looking a shadow of the side that won the World Cup two years ago.

By Chandler Thornton, CNN Brisbane has been officially announced as host of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2032. The Australian city and surrounding South-East Queensland region were approved as the Games hosts at an International Olympic Committee (IOC) session in Tokyo on Wednesday. “Brisbane 2032 is the first future host to have been elected

By Rebecca Wright and Will Ripley, CNN Oonagh Cousins was training up to 35 hours a week after she was picked for the British rowing team for the Tokyo Olympics, despite contracting Covid-19 in February 2020. The 26-year-old from Surrey experienced a mild case of the disease, so she felt able to make a quick

By Joshua Berlinger, CNN After a delay of more than a year due to the pandemic, the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics are finally underway. Competition began Wednesday morning with Japan’s softball team facing off against Australia at the Fukushima Azuma Baseball Stadium. The opening ceremony will be held Friday, but Olympic events typically begin before

By Jacob Lev, CNN New York Jets assistant coach Greg Knapp is in critical condition following a bicycling accident, Lieutenant Tami Williams of the San Ramon Police Department in California tells CNN. Knapp, 58, collided with a single motorist on Saturday and sustained major injuries, according to police. San Ramon is about 30 miles east

By Luke Wolagiewicz and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN Six Polish swimmers have had to return home from the Tokyo Olympics due to an administrative error by the Polish Swimming Federation (PZP). “I would like to express my great regret, sadness, and bitterness at the situation,” PZP director Pawel Slominski said in a statement released Monday. Alicja

By Amy Woodyatt, CNN The Norwegian women’s beach handball team has been fined after players opted to wear shorts instead of bikini bottoms during a European championship game. The European Handball Federation (EHF) said Monday that it had imposed a fine of 1,500 euros ($1,766) — 150 euros ($176) for each player — on the

By Jack Guy and Duarte Mendonca, CNN An English Premier League club has suspended a member of its first team squad after he was arrested on suspicion of child sex offenses. The player, who has not been named for legal reasons, was arrested on Friday and has been released on police bail. CNN has not

By Holly Yan, CNN What could have been the pinnacle of her acclaimed career has been thwarted by positive coronavirus tests. But US gymnast Kara Eaker is already looking forward to life beyond the Tokyo Olympics, her father told CNN on Tuesday. The 18-year-old has “picked herself up off the floor and started looking forward

By Chandler Thornton and Ben Church, CNN Tokyo 2020 CEO Toshiro Muto isn’t ruling out a last minute cancellation of the Olympic Games amid rising Covid-19 cases. Tokyo reported 1,387 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, the city’s second-highest daily increase of new cases since January 21, according to Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s website. And as athletes

By Steve Almasy, CNN The sports world, just days ahead of one of its premier global events, has been dealing with a significant and concerning number of Covid-19 cases. There have been calls by some Japanese residents to cancel the Olympics, which are starting this week a year late due to the coronavirus pandemic. Sports

By Jill Martin, CNN Nneka Ogwumike of the Los Angeles Sparks and Elizabeth Williams of the Atlanta Dream won’t be able to play for Nigeria in the Tokyo Olympics after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) denied their appeal. FIBA, the world governing body for basketball, had ruled that the two WNBA players could

By Sana Noor Haq, CNN Kenya’s golden grasslands and lush cornfields are a far cry from the rolling hills and green forests that run across Beersel in Belgium, a province just outside Brussels, where budding Olympian Isaac Kimeli has been training for his first Games. The 27-year-old Belgian track and field star has spent the

By Chie Kobayashi and Heather Law, CNN Japanese musician Keigo Oyamada has announced his intention to step down as a composer for the Tokyo 2020 opening and closing ceremonies after old interviews of bullying behavior resurfaced, days before the beleaguered Olympics are due to get underway. Oyamada — who is also known by the stage

By Toyin Owoseje, CNN Double Paralympic world champion Olivia Breen says she was left “speechless” after an official at the English Championships told her that her sprint briefs were “too short and inappropriate.” The 24-year-old detailed the incident in a Twitter post on Sunday, saying that while she was grateful to the volunteers who officiate