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Olympics organizers in Japan seem poised to lose as much as $3 billion on the 2021 Olympic Games this year.

Hundreds of Japanese citizens furious that the Olympics are still being held despite the coronavirus crisis gathered to protest in Tokyo.

TOKYO (AP) — Belated and beleaguered, the virus-delayed Tokyo Summer Olympics finally opened Friday night with cascading fireworks and made-for-TV choreography that unfolded in a near-empty stadium, a colorful but strangely subdued ceremony that set a striking tone to match a unique pandemic Games.

First Lady Jill Biden made her solo debut on the diplomatic stage Friday, meeting in Tokyo with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s wife Mariko before attending a reception at the Imperial Palace with Emperor Naruhito.

Olympics Opening Ceremony Director Kentaro Kobayashi was removed from his post following the reports of previously making comments about the Holocaust.

Tokyo Olympic organizers are scrambling to clean the local Odaiba Marine Park before its use as an official Olympic venue starting July 26 after local residents and Olympic athletes complained this week the park and its surrounding bay emit a “foul odor,” Australia’s Daily Telegraph reported Wednesday.

TOKYO (AP) — The chiropractor for the American women’s wrestling team has apologized after comparing Olympic COVID-19 protocols to Nazi Germany in a social media post.

Rhys McClenaghan, an Irish Olympic gymnast, debunked the internet-fueled theory that athletes would be sleeping on cardboard beds that easily break under pressure to discourage sexual activity.

Strained relations between South Korea and Japan took another hit on Monday when South Korean President Moon Jae-in canceled his visit to the Tokyo Olympics and a planned meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide because a Japanese diplomat made “unacceptable” remarks comparing Moon’s diplomatic outreach to masturbation.

The composer for the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics has resigned after old interviews resurfaced in which he admitted to bullying and physically abusing disabled classmates when he was a minor, according to multiple reports.

TOKYO (AP) — Toyota won’t be airing any Olympic-themed advertisements on Japanese television during the Tokyo Games despite being one of the IOC’s top corporate sponsors.

Athletes should avoid “divisive” political statements during the Tokyo Olympics, the president of the International Olympic Committee said.

(AP) — The British women’s soccer team will take a knee before kickoff at the Tokyo Olympics.

The White House confirmed Tuesday that First Lady Jill Biden will lead the official U.S. delegation to the Tokyo Olympics, leaving President Joe Biden to stay at home alone.

The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) says they have no authority to change the one-month suspension of U.S. Olympic runner Sha’Carri Richardson, because that power resides with the World Anti-Doping Agency.

Police in Japan arrested a 53-year-old woman on Sunday for attempting to extinguish the Tokyo Olympics’ torch with a water gun as it was relayed through the city of Mito, the Tokyo Reporter, a local Japanese news site, reported on Tuesday.

TOKYO — Fans are banned from the Tokyo Olympics following a state of emergency aimed at containing rising coronavirus infections in the capital.

Coronavirus fears could see sports fans banned from the opening ceremonies of the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics later this month while VIPs, politicians, and elite Games officials will still be able to attend, a Japanese newspaper reported.

A petition challenging the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) transgender policy and calling for the exclusion of New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard from competing in Tokyo later this month is building with more than 21,000 signatures already added.

The International Swimming Federation has banned the use of “Soul Caps” at this month’s Olympic games, held in Tokyo, Japan.

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — For the past week, they’ve played the national anthem one time a night at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials.

First Lady Jill Biden is tipped to visit Japan for the Tokyo Olympics on a solo trip in place of President Joe Biden, the Yomiuri Shimbun daily reported Sunday.

ESPN Jalen Rose claims that Team USA only included a white player to avoid having to send an all-black team to the Olympics.

A transgender BMX freestyle rider and U.S. Olympic team alternate once said that his goal was to win the Olympics so he could burn the American flag on the podium.

Reactions are piling up after it was reported that Laurel Hubbard, a male who identifies as a woman, will compete as a female in Tokyo.

Organizers of the Tokyo Olympics confirmed on Monday plans to distribute at least 150,000 condoms to athletes at next month’s Summer Games but insisted that the contraceptives are not intended “for use at the athlete’s village.”

An Australian female swimmer has ended her Olympic pursuits to teach a lesson to the “misogynistic perverts she claims are “exploiting” her.

Foreign reporters covering the Tokyo Olympics will be tracked by GPS and their behavior “managed” by organizers, the event president said Tuesday, adding passes could be “revoked” for any rule infractions by journalists.

L.A. Lakers star LeBron James said he is choosing “toon squad” for the off season instead of representing the U.S.A. at the Olympics.

Japan has been “cornered” into holding the Tokyo Olympic Games amid the ravages of the global coronavirus pandemic, one of the country’s best-known Olympians and executive member of the Japanese Olympic Committee alleged Friday.

Organizers of the Tokyo Olympics revealed on Wednesday that roughly 10,000 volunteers have withdrawn from the Summer Games, which are slated to begin on July 23.

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Asahi Shimbun newspaper on Wednesday called for the Tokyo Olympics to be canceled with the games set to open in less than two months.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is drawing equal measures of anger and rebuke in Japan after senior officials told organizers of the delayed Tokyo Olympics the games should proceed.

TOKYO — The IOC vice president in charge of the postponed Tokyo Olympics said Friday that the Games would open in just over two months even if the city and other parts of Japan were under a state of emergency because of rising COVID-19 cases.

TOKYO (AP) — An online petition with more than 350,000 signatures calling for the Tokyo Games to be canceled was submitted Friday to local organizers, the International Olympic Committee and others.

A union of Japanese hospital doctors on Wednesday urged Tokyo to cancel its upcoming Summer Olympic Games, slated to begin on July 23, warning it would be “impossible” to stage the event safely amid the ongoing Chinese coronavirus pandemic.