Olympic organizers need to sort out a mind-boggling jigsaw puzzle, resolving scheduling conflicts with other major sporting events, rescheduling Olympic qualifiers.
England and Scotland have played a world cup qualifier wearing poppy emblems in defiance of a ban on political gestures by world football's governing body FIFA.
10 Eritrean footballers, who refused to go home after a World Cup qualifier in Botswana, have been granted political asylum there. Here's Mike Thunders.