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Olympic magic cut through the pandemic gloom, but the Tokyo Games’ legacy is complex

The International Olympic Committee will walk away with its broadcast revenue intact. The Japanese taxpayers will be left footing a multibillion-dollar bill without having been invited to the party.

By Simon Denyer and Michelle Ye Hee Lee

Perspective

It’s unforgivable to hold the Olympics in Beijing

The Olympics are a prize to China. Take it away.

By Sally Jenkins

Perspective

Fewer and fewer cities want to host the Olympics. That should tell the IOC something.

It’s time to fix the Olympics.

By Barry Svrluga

Sunisa Lee is about to try a new thing for an all-around champ: College gymnastics

Gymnast will go from winning a gold medal in Tokyo to a dorm room at Auburn.

By Emily Giambalvo

‘Pops, I didn’t do it’: The heartbreak of Richard Torrez Jr. over the gold medal he didn’t win

USA Boxing caps successful Olympics despite two fighters losing decisions in the finals.

By Les Carpenter

Dawn Staley and Sue Bird make sure their final USA Basketball moment is golden

After the United States beat Japan, 90-75, the U.S. women’s coach announced she is stepping down.

By Ava Wallace

U.S. women’s volleyball team lays down its burdens, picks up a gold medal

By Dave Sheinin

The heat withered the Olympic marathon field. And then there was Eliud Kipchoge.

By Chuck Culpepper

Remembering all of the firsts at the Tokyo Olympics

By Jake Lourim

On the final day of Olympic track, the U.S. men finally get their gold

By Roman Stubbs

Team USA baseball, a ragtag, charming bunch, comes up just short in quest for gold

By Dave Sheinin

Analysis

For USA Basketball, an arduous journey to a familiar destination

By Ben Golliver

U.S. women’s water polo wins gold again. Just getting to Tokyo was an ordeal.

By Ava Wallace

The Russian Tank beat Captain America in the Olympics’ most-anticipated wrestling match

A golden farewell to swimming’s greatest underwater dancing queen

British diver Tom Daley says sports has ‘a lot further to go’ on LGBTQ acceptance

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Medal or nothing: U.S. men’s sprinters have a handoff problem

The problem for the U.S. 4x100 men's relay team: Handoffs, handoffs, handoffs. Here's why passing a baton is so hard.

By Bonnie Berkowitz and Artur Galocha

(Washington Post illustration; AP; Getty)

Life after gold

How winning trained these Olympians to face the unexpected.

By Ashleigh Joplin, Whitney Shefte, David Bruns and Reem Akkad

(Maja Hitij/Getty Images)

The Tokyo Olympics: 1964 celebrations and 2021 struggles

The 1964 Tokyo Olympics was an emotional celebration of Japan's triumphant post-war return to the global stage. This year, the postponed Tokyo Olympics looks and feels nothing like those Games — or any other Olympics of the past.

By Michelle Ye Hee Lee

(Jeff Roberson/AP)