It's been the biggest of big shows this week - even if the stands have been empty. But the Tokyo Olympics have captured imaginations across the globe.
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In Australia, particularly NSW, COVID-19 has been hitting the headlines but let's have a little respite.
Why don't we focus on the faster-higher-stronger types doing their thing in Tokyo. Have you been watching and taking in the info or have you just been watching and shouting?
It hasn't all ben highlights for our former Olympians though this week.
Former champion Olympic diver Chantelle Lee Newbery has been charged with stealing from a Brisbane supermarket earlier this month.
Newbery, who won gold at Athens in 2004, was not in Brisbane Magistrates Court on Friday.
Seventeen years ago canoeist Nathan Baggaley stood on an Olympic podium winning two silver medals within just a few hours.
But on Tuesday the three-time world champion stood in a Brisbane court dock as he was sentenced to 25 years behind bars for his role in a bungled cocaine-smuggling plot.
Anyway ... back to Tokyo: