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Fans wearing face masks cheer as SoftBank Hawks' Nobuhiro Matsuda, center, celebrates after hitting a solo home run against Rakuten Golden Eagles in the second inning of a regular season baseball game in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, Friday, July 10, 2020. Japan’s professional baseball league began allowing up to 5,000 fans into the games on Friday, or 50% of the stadium capacity - whichever is smaller. Officials hope to allow the stadiums to be filled to 50% capacity beginning on Aug. 1. (Kyodo News via AP)
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Consadole Sapporo players pose for a photo prior to their J-League soccer match against Yokohama FC at Nippatsu Stadium in Yokohama, near Tokyo Saturday, July 4, 2020. Japan’s soccer league is back in action this weekend after a four-month delay because of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
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FILE - In this June 25, 2019, file photo, Japan players embrace ahead of the Women's World Cup round of 16 soccer match between the Netherlands and Japan at Roazhon Park, in Rennes, France. The Japan Football Association is expected to pull out of bidding for the 2023 Women’s World Cup, according to a report by Japanese news agency Kyodo on Monday, June 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 29, 2020, file photo, spectators' stands are empty during a play in a preseason baseball game between the Yomiuri Giants and the Yakult Swallows at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo. The Yomiuri Giants, Japan’s most famous baseball team, called off a preseason game on Wednesday, June 3, with reports that at least one player may have tested positive for the coronavirus.(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
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With empty stands to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, Yokohama F. Marinos and Vissel Kobe play in their J-League's Super Cup soccer match at Saitama Stadium in Saitama, near Tokyo, on Feb. 8, 2020. Japan's soccer J-League is ready to resume its season and will join Japan's pro baseball league as it also resumes. Japanese news agency Kyodo reports that league matches will resume on June 27 or July 4. (Kyodo News via AP)
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FILE - In this Feb. 29, 2020, file photo, spectators' stands are empty during a play in a preseason baseball game between the Yomiuri Giants and the Yakult Swallows at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo. Japan’s professional baseball season will open on June 19 under a plan that excludes fans, the Japanese news agency Kyodo reported on Monday, May 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
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United States players Tierna Davidson, Lindsey Horan, Julie Ertz, Abby Dahlkemper, and Kelley O'Hara stand with their jerseys turned inside out during the playing of the national anthem before a SheBelieves Cup women's soccer match against Japan, Wednesday, March 11, 2020 at Toyota Stadium in Frisco, Texas. (AP Photo/Jeffrey McWhorter)
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England defender Steph Houghton (5) passes the ball as Japan forward Mina Tanaka (15) looks on during the first half of a SheBelieves Cup soccer match Sunday, March 8, 2020, in Harrison, N.J. (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun)
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Morgan Hurd of the United States performs on the floor during the America Cup gymnastics competition Saturday, March 7, 2020, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
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FILE - In this April 9, 2013, file photo, United States' Kacey Bellamy, Julie Chu and Meghan Duggan, from left, stand with IIHF president Rene Fasel as they are presented with the trophy after the U.S. team defeated Canada 3-2 in the gold medal game at the women's ice hockey world championships in Ottawa, Ontario. The women’s world hockey championships in Canada have been canceled because of the new coronavirus. International Ice Hockey Federation President René Fasel tells The Associated Press the decision was made by conference call Saturday, March 7, 2020. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP, File)
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England's head coach Eddie Jones watches as his team prepares for the Six Nations international rugby union match between England and Ireland at Twickenham stadium in London, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
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Japan Pro-Baseball Commissioner Atsushi Saito, left, and J-League Chairman Mitsuru Murai attend a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo Monday, March 2, 2020. The opening of Japanese professional baseball's regular season is in doubt over the outbreak of the new virus, they said Monday, as the nation's baseball and soccer leagues tapped three medical experts as advisers. (Ren Onuma/Kyodo News via AP)
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Two people walk by a notice outside San Siro stadium advising that the Serie A soccer match between Inter and Sampdoria is cancelled, in Milan, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2020. In Lombardy, the hardest-hit region by the spread of the Coronavirus with 90 cases, schools and universities were ordered to stay closed in the coming days, and sporting events were canceled. Lombardy's ban on public events also extended to Masses in churches in the predominantly Roman Catholic nation. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
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FILE - This Feb. 12, 2020, file photo released by Xinhua News Agency shows a part of a temporary hospital with 1,100 beds converted from the Wuhan Sports Center in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province. Citizens have been ordered to stay in their homes for weeks in the coronavirus outbreak's epicenter of Wuhan. (Cheng Min/Xinhua via AP, File)
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Workers spray disinfectant at a train station in Wuhan in southern China's Hubei province, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020. Chinese health authorities urged people in the city of Wuhan to avoid crowds and public gatherings, after warning on Wednesday that a new viral illness that has infected hundreds and caused at least nine deaths could spread further. (Chinatopix via AP)
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In this Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020 photo, Danny Valencia throws a ball during Israel's national baseball team practice, in Tel Aviv, Israel. As a baseball-crazed kid growing up in Miami, Danny Valencia dreamed of playing in the Major Leagues. The thought of heading to the Olympics, for a foreign country no less, never crossed his mind. But that’s the next surreal step for the 35-year-old Valencia, who recently became an Israeli citizen thanks to his Jewishness and is now the star player in Team Israel’s improbable run to the Tokyo Games. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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A general view of the new National Stadium is seen Sunday, Dec. 15, 2019, in Tokyo. The stadium is officially completed. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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FILE - In this Aug. 11, 2019, file photo, athletes compete in a marathon swimming test event at Odaiba Marine Park, a venue for marathon swimming and triathlon at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, in Tokyo. The IOC moved next year’s Tokyo Olympic marathons and race walks out of the Japanese capital to avoid the stifling heat and humidity. Some swimmers and an 11,000-member coaching body want similar treatment: find an alternative to the distance-swimming venue in Tokyo Bay known as the “Odaiba Marine Park.”(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
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