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Updated July 20, 2021 at 1:10 PM ET The start of the largest event in sports after a year postponement is a sign of hope for many. But critics view holding the Games during pandemic times as an unacceptable risk to the world's top athletes and the Japanese people. For months, questions have persisted about whether these Olympics, which are deeply unpopular in Japan, will actually happen. Now we know the answer is (almost surely) yes. We're just a few hours away from the first event. Despite the criticism and the extreme logistical challenges of putting on the Games, thousands of athletes, jou...

Do you know this year is skateboarding. >> oh. >> every time there's always one weird sport you can weirdly get into. >> curling. gwen berry the one who protested is competing in a hammer throw. that sounds like something you do at an antifa really. >> right. doesn't sound like a sport. >> sounds like a bunch of dudes standing around like ice dancing. >> okay we'll put that in there. >> what are the young kids into? i see the kids on the skateboards. >> next it will just be college. >> there should be olympics for that, right? why not. i don't know. who am i talking to right now? up next a rob...

'There's a lot of s**t I don't do like I did when I was 18 or 20': 'Activist-athlete' Gwen Berry tries to brush off history of racially charged tweets and compares herself to Brett Kavanaugh during his SCOTUS nomination Gwen Berry, 32, took to Twitter Saturday afternoon to defend her past offensive tweets A series of derogatory comments she made about Chinese, Mexican and white people, as well as tasteless jokes about rape, came to light Most of the tweets were around a decade old when the athlete was in her early 20s but were still online  Berry compared the dredging up of the posts to t...

Offensive and tasteless tweets have resurfaced by Olympian Gwen Berry  The majority of those uncovered are more than ten years old but she was already competing for the United States on the national stage The tweets include derogatory comments about Chinese, Mexican and white people On Sunday, Berry staged a protest on the podium at the Olympic trials   The 32-year-old hammer thrower turned her back on the flag and anthem  

Gwendolyn Berry (L), third place, turns away from U.S. flag during the U.S. National Anthem as DeAnna Price (C), first place, and Brooke Andersen, second place, also stand on the podium after the Women’s Hammer Throw final on day nine of the 2020 U.S. (Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images) The 2021 Tokyo Summer Olympics kicks off this month, and there’s no shortage of related topics being discussed at every level of entertainment and politics. This year, Team USA is stacked with incredible talent, including a growing list of Black athletes who will have the opportunity to comp...