Tamyra Mensah-Stock isn't just the second-ever Team USA female wrestler to win Olympic gold, she's the first Black athlete to do so, too.

Basketball says goodbye to two greats of the game as Team Argentina's Luis Scola and Team Spain's Pau Gasol close their international careers.

But one more honor for Gasol, though...election to the IOC's Athletes' Commission, along with swimmer Federica Pellegrini, fencer Yuki Ota, and cyclist Maja Martyna Wloszczokwska.

Team USA's Caeleb Dressel on the schedule of Olympic swimming: "It's a week of hell".

And, in beach volleyball, Team United States veteran Jake Gibb also calls it a career after his Tokyo run.

Team Great Britain's Jack Laugher's mental struggle recovery has him cherishing his bronze finish in springboard diving.

The item of note in this report on Team Great Britain boxer Ben Whittaker's silver disappointment is that he's considering a mayoral run.

Adam Ondra of Team Czech Republic isn't just a leading gold medal contender, he's also one of sport climbing's notorious yellers.

Team India was once the preeminent side in men's Olympic field hockey. Welcome back to the podium.

​Hannah Mills is now Team Great Britain's most accomplished Olympic sailor.

Will Team Nigeria's Blessing Obodurudu retire after three Olympics and her silver medal in wrestling?

Nine years after a London 2012 bronze, Team Jamaica's Hansle Parchment wins the 110 meter hurdles in one of the Games' biggest upsets.

19-year-old Keely Hodginskon believes the "sky's the limit" for her running career after a silver medal performance in the Olympic 800 meters.

And finally, Andre de Grasse gets his gold with his 200 meter win for Team Canada, its first in the event in almost one hundred years.

Team India wrestler Vinesh Phogat looks to continue her unbeaten streak to gold and banish her past injury demons.

Nicolas Batum is one to watch as he leads Team France into the semifinals of basketball.

Can Team ROC's Svetlana Romashina win a record sixth gold in artistic swimming?

World-ranked at 200, Team India's Aditi Ashok is high on the women's golf leaderboard.

A surprise in women's basketball sees host Team Japan making it to the semifinals.

Tsuneari Yohito once face amputation, but is now Team Australia's men's karate Olympian.

Team Australia's Sam Kerr vows she'll "be ready for Team USA" in the semifinal match in women's soccer.

Neeraj Chopra enters Friday's men's javelin finals as the top qualifier. That's the same Chopra with the bread omelette diet.

Krisztian Manhercz powers Team Hungary to the water polo semifinals with a seven-goal performance.

Sky Brown flies.

Stefanos Ntsoukos gets a hero's welcome.

Mondo Duplantis is #readytofly.

Malaika Mihambo takes it in.

Rommel Pacheco says goodbye.

What to say? Team Norway's Karsten Warholm fulfills predictions of a fast race with one for the ages in the 400 meters hurdles.

​Get to know the new 'world's fastest man', Team Italy's El Paso-born and former long jumper Lamont Marcell Jacobs.

​Keni Harrison is "ecstatic" with her 100 meter hurdles performance for silver.

Is Jrue Holiday the key piece for Team USA's basketball aims?

Pommel horse specialist Rhys McClenaghan vows to come back stronger after a disappointing Olympic gymnastics debut; he's only 22 years old.

Meanwhile, Artem Dolgopyat's gymnastics gold brings a side dish of conversation on 'Jewishness'.

It's the end of a 49-year Olympic title drought for Team Great Britain in team equestrian eventing.

And, it's a social media viral moment for Team USA's dressage equestrian Steffen Peters and Suppenkaser.

Four straight gold medals for Team Cuba's Mijain Lopez in Greco-Roman wrestling is fulfilled.

Sprinter Krystsina Tsminanouskaya's political saga with Team Belarus takes a Polish turn.

From the ranks of the unseeded to the top of the podium it is for Team Indonesia's badminton doubles team of Greysia Polii and Apriyani Rihayu.

Representing Team India is "a dream" for Diksha Dagar, a last-minute call-up to the women's golf field.

Team India's women offer a true 'Cinderella' story in women's field hockey as they join their male counterparts as semifinalists.

Meet Jordan Windle: Team USA diver with an adoptee backstory fit for heartstrings.

Gymnastics great Simone Biles plans on her competition return for Team USA with the balance beam final this morning.

Tom O'Halloran has gone from climbing trees to representing Team Australia in sport climbing.

Team USA's Emma White and the team pursuit women plan to do one one better than their Rio 2016 silver in track cycling.

Team USA group member Camilla Feeley looks like to Tokyo 2020 as the swan song for her rhythmic gymnastics career.

​At only age 20, Team Australia's Bec Henderson will be the youngest female race walker at Tokyo 2020.

Gold wrapped up, Panapak Wongpattanakit hits the beach.

Clarisse Agbegnenou leaves Tokyo with two golds.

We hear you, Clayton.

Claudia Holzner and Jacqueline Simoneau are excited to compete.

Tiago Apolonia and the Portuguese table tennis band say thanks.

Maggie Steffens cements her all-time goal-scoring prowess in Team USA's latest water polo win.

Estonia's surprise gold in fencing was its first Olympic title since 2008.

Anastasiia Logunova: Team Russia's 3x3 basketball star also has an Olympic engagement story...

Steffi Graf remains the only 'Golden Slam' champion in tennis.

Meanwhile,  Michael Venus' family sacrifices have paid off with a medal in doubles.

Team Australia's Cate Campbell found musical inspiration as she swam to another Olympic medal.

New Team South Africa champion Tatjana Schoenmaker prefers to let her swimming do the talking.

Will Abraham Kibiwott be able to back up his Team Kenya steeplechase victory promise?

Get to know Lovlina Borgohain, Team India's newest women's boxing medalist.

Two medals not enough for gold-expectant Team Great Britain in rowing.

An San defended her top seed - and her hairstyle - with her gold medal archery win.

With All-Star Game and World Series experience, Edwin Jackson sees a gold medal for Team USA baseball as "icing in the cake".

Team India's Fouaad Mirza has made a mark in early equestrian eventing competition at Tokyo 2020.

Track sprint favorite Trayvon Brommell takes a different approach to the role than his predecessor.

Beach volleyballer Brandie Wilkerson is relishing her Olympic experience after serving as alternate for Team Canada five years ago.

Get to know Team USA skateboarder Mariah Duran, through her clothes.

Team Slovenia's Janja Garnbret is a legitimate favorite in women's sport climbing.

Gymnast Alexa Moreno, of Toyota commercial fame, is headed to her second Olympic vault final.

Team Ireland makes a surprise booking into the landmark mixed 4x400 track relay.

Jessica Fox is a champion (again).

Gwen Berry takes a stand.

Portrait of a triathlete...

Marcos Grimalt is pumped with a win.

Aidan Walsh jumps for medal joy.

​​It's the last edition of "A Little Roundup" before the 2020 Tokyo Games officially begin, so it's a super-sized one to wrap up the blog's pre-Opening Ceremony roundups of athlete headlines.

Yukiko Ueno and Team Japan get Olympic competition underway in softball. "All I felt was excitement before the game."

(More) Softball
Sara Croenewegen was overcome with legionnaire's disease just three years ago; now she's starring for Team Canada.

Will Yamato Fujita be Team Japan's new softball superstar?

Gymnastics
​Back fully from injury, Mai Murakami is ready to lead Japan's women in her home Games.

Tennis
"The most eye-catching star in tennis", Naomi Osaka stuns in Vogue Hong Kong...and on the cover of Sports Illustrated's swimsuit edition, too.

Sir Andy Murray: Why Tokyo 2020 is special.

Indian veteran Sania Mirza hasn't thought about retirement yet, despite headed to her fourth Olympics at age 34.

Karate
Switzerland's Elena Quirici is excited to do her "karate-mad" family proud at these Olympics.

Badminton
Nguyen Tien Minh will be the first Vietnamese athlete to appear in four Olympic Games, and still is his nation's leading medal hope.

Boxing
Delante Johnson carries a strong Cleveland-native tradition into the Games, with a real shot at gold.

Golf
Five things to know about golfer Justin Thomas, from For the Win.

Wrestling
Sports Illustrated has a Q&A with Helen Maroulis, the first U.S. woman to win Olympic wrestling gold, who's title defense comes after a tough few years.

Weightlifting
​Can Wes Kitts help bridge the gap to the podium for Team USA weightlifting in this changing times for the sport.

Trampoline
Dominic Clarke is grateful to be "unapologetically queer...on the Olympic stage".
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Diving
Krysta Palmer is not only finally a Team USA diver, she's also a member of the Iron Butt Association.

Triathlon
Veteran Javier Gomez returned to Olympic distance racing in triathlon for a shot at erasing a disappointing Rio 2016.

Artistic Swimming
Count Spain's Ona Carbonell as a mother uniquely impacted by the restrictions on accompanying family.

Archery
Re-live Team Bhutan's first official Olympic qualification, courtesy of archer Karma, in the documentary Kingdom of Archers.

​Swimming
'Swimming's next superstar'? Team USA's Caeleb Dressel would rather "just shut up and swim".

With a "fly and die" strategy, teenager Torri Huske is one to watch in the pool.

But Team Great Britain's swimming star Adam Peaty is feeling fit and ready for a world record.

Soccer
Jayde Riviere is a key component of Team Canada's bridge toward youth in the women's soccer team.

Meanwhile, Brazil's Formiga will become soccer's first seven-time Olympian at Tokyo 2020.

Sport Climbing
Bouldering specialist Kyra Condie shares a rundown of sport climbing's Olympic format.

Equestrian
Who are the Rio 2016 equestrian gold medalists looking to repeat at Tokyo 2020?

Caroline Chew is a London-based lawyer, Singapore's first-ever equestrian Olympian, and rides a horse named after a Friends character.

Basketball
Keldon Johnson's promotion from training squad to Team USA's men's basketball led to parents' tears.

Skateboarding
Letitia Bufoni is not just a five-time X Games champion skateboarder and a soon-to-be Olympian...she also has her own video game character.

Judo
With Tahani Alqahtani's participation, judo again represents a step forward for women in Saudi Arabia.

Cycling
Winner of the last two Tour de France stages last week, Team Belgium's road cyclist Wout van Aert may have tired legs, but is happy to be in Tokyo.

Meanwhile, with "no hiding, no tactics", Team New Zealander Patrick Bevin looks forward to thee potential for surprises in the cycling road race.

Rhythmic Gymnastics
Mexico's first-ever Olympic rhythmic gymnast, Rut Castillo started reluctantly in the discipline despite her 'super flexibility'.

Taekwondo
Taekwondo star Jade Jones: 'The making of a double Olympic champion.'

Track & Field
Budding Olympic star Armand Duplantis remembers watching previous Olympic pole vault finals, knowing it would be him one day there, too.

Hugues Fabrice Zango carries Burkina Faso's olympic medal dreams into Tokyo as a podium favorite.

The men's track 4x100 relay may be one of Japan's most anticipated events as a home nation. Team member Yoshihide Kiryu shares his enthusiasm for the race.

Fencing
Count world championship medalist fencer Vivian Kong Man-Wai as one athlete dedicated to observe all precautions to stay safe in the lead-up to the Games.

Shooting
Meet Derrick Main, trap shooter for Team USA who grew up quail hunting and now has a "dream come true" competing in the Olympics.

Rowing
Inspired by the pandemic delay, rower Helen Glover has un-retired and is the first mother to row for Team Great Britain at the Olympics.

​Rugby Sevens
Will Olympic success push Team Australia's rugby sevens' Lachlan Miller back toward rugby league and the National Rugby League?
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Fun fact about Team Ireland's rugby sevens squad: Harry McNulty is the one member to have helped start the program six years ago.