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By Syndicated Content By Antoni Slodkowski and Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) – The Tokyo Olympics is running a village for athletes and coaches where more than 80% are vaccinated against the coronavirus, testing is compulsory and movement is stringently curtailed. None of that is true for the giant Japanese capital that surrounds the Olympic “bubble”. The athletes’ village and Olympic press centre represent a huge, strict COVID-19 control zone for the more than 50,000 competitors, coaches, staff and journalists. Meanwhile, outside the fence, host city Tokyo ...

___ MEDAL ALERT Selemon Barega of Ethiopia won the first track and field gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics with victory in the men’s 10,000 meters. Barega won in 27 minutes, 43.22 seconds to upset world champion and world-record holder Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda. Cheptegei took the silver medal and Jacob Kiplimo of Uganda was third. Barega won at a largely empty Olympic Stadium. It was the only medal event on the first day of track action. ___ MEDAL ALERT The top-seeded pair of Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic won Olympic gold in men’s doubles tennis. Mektic and Pavic beat Marin Cilic and Ivan...

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WHIZ News Olympics Latest: An San of South Korea wins 3rd archery gold ___ MEDAL ALERT An San of South Korea has won her third straight archery gold medal at the Tokyo Games. She won during a shoot-off in the final of the women’s individual event. An beat Elena Osipova of ROC, the acronym for the Russian Olympic Committee, by a 6-5 score Friday. She scored a 10 in the shoot-off — Osipova recorded a 8 — to help her nation remain perfect in archery in Tokyo. An had a part in the mixed and women’s team gold medals as well, with the men’s team also winning. The last archery event will b...

Andy Lyons/Getty Images toggle caption Andy Lyons/Getty Images JuVaughn Harrison competes in the men's long jump final at the Olympic trials in June. He'll compete in both the long jump and high jump in the Olympics. Andy Lyons/Getty Images For some of us, the Olympics don't really get started until the runners take the starting line and the javelins go flying. Every four years — or in this case, five — we rejoice when the hours of swimming coverage give way to wall-to-wall athletics, as the Olympics and other countries call track and field. Here a...