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2021 Tokyo Olympics

Coverage of the 2021 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan – from the opening ceremony held on Friday, July 23 to Sunday, August 8.

The long reach of Belarus’s repression

By Jen Kirby August 7

How Olympic divers make the perfect tiny splash

By Edward Vega August 5

Why the “wolf turn” is such a big deal

By Antonella Crescimbeni August 2

Will the Tokyo Olympics be a superspreader event?

By Dylan Scott July 30

America’s mental health moment is finally here

By Anna North July 30

Why Simone Biles withdrew from the Olympic gymnastic women’s team finals

By Alex Abad-Santos July 28

Why the 400m hurdles is one of the hardest Olympic races

By Kimberly Mas July 26

Our bodies can adapt to hotter conditions — but there’s a limit

By Brian Resnick July 26

The Simone Biles scoring controversy, explained

By Alex Abad-Santos July 24

How to become an Olympic sport

By Emily VanDerWerff July 24

Gymnastics still hasn’t fully reckoned with its abuse problem

By Anna North July 24

The Olympics are stuck in the 1980s on marijuana

By German Lopez July 7

Tokyo’s Olympic Village will be very vaccinated

By Jen Kirby June 23

The complicated politics of a Beijing 2022 boycott

By Jen Kirby June 1

The Olympics’ Covid-19 dilemma

By Jen Kirby May 17

Tokyo 2021? The decision to postpone the Summer Olympics, explained.

By Jen Kirby March 24, 2020