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Being chosen as an Olympic flag-bearer is an enormous honor — yet athletes routinely turn it down. We talked to Michael Phelps’ coach — and former flag bearers such as Dawn Staley and Erin Hamlin — to find out exactly how grueling it can be.

Tennis star Naomi Osaka has lit the cauldron at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Games, ending the flame’s long journey from Greece to these delayed Olympics.

The NFL informed teams that they face possible forfeits of games — and the loss of game checks for players — if a COVID-19 outbreak among unvaccinated players causes an unresolvable disruption in the regular-season schedule.

DeAndre Hopkins was among the players to react strongly to the NFL’s memo to teams that said games might be forfeited if they are postponed because of an outbreak among unvaccinated players and can’t be rescheduled.

Brooks Kriske became the first major leaguer to throw four wild pitches in a single extra inning.

Since winning her first Grand Slam title in 2018, Naomi Osaka has tried to balance her on-court success — and the spotlight that comes with it. As she gets set to play for her home country at the Olympics, we look back at the tennis star’s path to Tokyo.

The tennis superstar took the honors of lighting the Olympic cauldron in Tokyo.

After opening the season in their spring training home in Dunedin, Florida, the Blue Jays closed out their stint in Buffalo on Wednesday with a loss to the Red Sox, and will finally return to host games in Toronto later this month.

United States women’s national team midfielder Lindsey Horan has said their 3-0 loss to Sweden left them “pissed off.”

Belated and beleaguered, the virus-delayed Tokyo Olympics finally opened Friday night with a dazzling display of fireworks and soaring, made-for-TV choreography that unfolded in a near-empty stadium, a strangely subdued ceremony.