Notes

Summer Olympics Preview: Sixty athletes to watch including American Simone Biles and Japan’s Kohei Uchimura; Australians Bronte and Cate Campbell; Justin Gatlin.
New Zealand’s plan to get rid of rats.
Indian Kahmir: a new wave of violence.
Is Putin taking sides?
South Africa’s rising star: Mmusi Maimane.
Let the Games begin: Katie Ledecky, Carlin Isles, Neymar, Michael Phelps, Allyson Felix.
Usain Bolt; Venus and Serena Williams.