- It sounds as if weightlifting's days in the Games are numbered. The current board of international weightlifting sees what's coming and would rather stay in power than enact reforms.
- Carli Lloyd has already retired from international women's soccer, and Megan Rapinoe may be about to follow her.
- A Red Square parade for the Russian Olympic athletes after their performance in Tokyo...
- The Paralympic Village is open for next week's Paralympic Games...
- While the Under-20 World Athletics World Championships have had several countries opt out due to COVID concerns.
- Concerns which now have the USA softball coach wondering if the Games should've taken place at all!! DUH!!!!!
- Maria Andrejczyk of Poland has sold her Olympic silver medal in the women's javelin competition to fund surgery for an eight month old baby. So, Poland (and specifically Poland), that medal was a hill of beans to you that Andrejczyk couldn't get a stipend or something, or even, knowing she could want to do this, help fund that surgery yourselves???
- For taekwondo humanitarian efforts, a Jordanian athlete, Farah Al Asa'ad is taking on at least a second of the famed Seven Summits...
- With the continuing COVID situation in Tokyo, the Paralympics will be fanless...
- ... and Afghanistan has opted out due to it's situation with the Taliban now in power.
All these from Inside the Games...
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