Covering a Weird Olympics

By Unknown Author from NYT Sports A diver’s heartbreaking scratch. A medalist lifting up a teammate. Cherished glimpses of Japanese culture — our journalists saw a lot viewers may not have.https://nyti.ms/3AoA071

Decisive Moments From the Tokyo Games, Frame by Frame

By BY LARRY BUCHANAN, JON HUANG, EMILY RHYNE, BEDEL SAGET, JOE WARD, JEREMY WHITE AND JOSH WILLIAMS from NYT Sports See the Summer Olympics in a series of composite images.https://nyti.ms/3AiGaWf

U.S. broadcast coverage includes swimming, softball and taekwondo.

By BY REBECCA THOMAS from NYT Sports Katie Ledecky, the defending Olympic champion, faces a true challenger in swimming.https://nyti.ms/3kVvLvm

How to Watch the Opening Ceremony.

By BY ALEXANDRA E. PETRI from NYT Sports With social distancing and no fans, the ceremony, much like the Games, will look a lot different.https://nyti.ms/3kLGMix

Tokyo Olympics: Athletes to Watch This Summer

By BY THE NEW YORK TIMES from NYT Sports Looking for some names to root for? Start here.https://nyti.ms/3p8yz8e

Former Olympic Coach Says U.S.A. Gymnastics Mishandled a Complaint Against Him

By BY JULIET MACUR from NYT Sports Kevin Mazeika has been accused of not reporting an injury at his Texas gym. He says the federation has damaged his reputation by adding him to a list of coaches facing misconduct allegations without explaining why.https://nyti.ms/3uHx2Iw

A Brief Guide to Every Sport at the Olympics

By BY VICTOR MATHER from NYT Sports From archery to yachting, and everything in between: Here are all the sports that are part of the Tokyo Games in 2021.https://nyti.ms/3xYf721

The New Training Facilities: Backyard Gym, Hallway Track

By BY TALYA MINSBERG from NYT Sports With restrictions imposed in their countries to slow the spread of Covid-19, athletes from the canoeist Mallory Franklin to the runner Valeria Nazarova have found ways to train at home.https://nyti.ms/3edh1S0

Why Are American Women Running Faster Than Ever? We Asked Them — Hundreds of Them

By BY TALYA MINSBERG AND KEVIN QUEALY from NYT Sports What’s behind a sea change in women’s elite and sub-elite running.https://nyti.ms/385Lu0H

Italy Is Chosen to Host 2026 Winter Olympics

By JERÉ LONGMAN from NYT Sports Milan and the ski resort of Cortina d’Ampezzo beat a Swedish bid that included Stockholm and the ski resort in Are for the Games.https://nyti.ms/2xbHEmF

Italy Is Chosen to Host 2026 Winter Olympics

By JERÉ LONGMAN from NYT Sports Milan and the ski resort of Cortina d’Ampezzo beat a Swedish bid that included Stockholm and the ski resort in Are for the Games.https://nyti.ms/2N858nC

Does Calgary Really Want the Winter Olympics? Does Anyone?

By MICHAEL POWELL from NYT Sports The Canadian city is set to vote on whether to bid for the 2026 Games. Norway and Austria and Switzerland have already passed.https://nyti.ms/2qKDuyN

Meet Walter Winans, the Ultimate Two-Event Olympic Medalist

By VICTOR MATHER from NYT Sports In 1912, Long before Ester Ledecka, Winans won medals in both shooting and ... sculpture.http://nyti.ms/2ETkaVS

Whenever a Russian Athlete Wins Gold You’ll Hear a Golden Oldie

By JOHN BRANCH from NYT Sports Russian winners at these Games will hear the unfamiliar Olympic hymn, from 1896, on the medal stand, rather than their national anthem, a penalty for the country’s doping scandal.http://nyti.ms/2oleXzO

Scott Hamilton Was Demoted as an Olympic Broadcaster. Don’t Feel Sorry for Him.

By JULIET MACUR from NYT Sports Hamilton is taking a back seat to the new guard of figure skating analysts, Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir, and his competitive career and protracted battles with cancer have taught him plenty about getting up after a fall.http://nyti.ms/2FaLVtH

U.S. Women’s Hockey Team Is Now Emphasizing Style. But What About Goals?

By MATTHEW FUTTERMAN from NYT Sports After losses to rival Canada at the past two Olympics, the team’s coach decided to think differently about how it plays.http://nyti.ms/2GbL8Z0

Olympic Parents Share In the Glory and the Spotlight

By DANIEL VICTOR from NYT Sports They’re not hard to spot, often standing on the sidelines grinning from ear to ear. http://nyti.ms/2GeiiH9

Mirai Nagasu Lands Triple Axel, a First by an American Woman at an Olympics

By DANIEL VICTOR from NYT Sports The 24-year-old figure skater became the third woman to land the jump in Olympic competition.http://nyti.ms/2EkBjeC

How Jamie Anderson Won Her Second Straight Olympic Gold in Slopestyle

By ALEXANDRA GARCIA, K.K. REBECCA LAI, HAEYOUN PARK, BEDEL SAGET, MARGARET CHEATHAM WILLIAMS and JEREMY WHITE from NYT Sports High winds kept her from executing a dream run, but she scored nearly 7 points ahead of the silver medalist.http://nyti.ms/2BoUD7U

Scott Blackmun Gets to Keep His Job? Really?

By JULIET MACUR from NYT Sports If the U.S.O.C. is really serious about the sexual abuse, then someone else needs to lead the organization.http://nyti.ms/2sl8tW3