Athletes with Western Pennsylvania ties that are worth following as the Summer Games play out.

Anticipated schedule highlights heading to Tokyo:

July 27: The United States women’s gymnastics team, led by Simone Biles, pictured right, can go for a third consecutive team title — something not done since the Soviet Union won eight in a row (1956-80).

July 30: Biles can make more history by becoming the first woman gymnast to repeat as all-around champion in more than a half-century (Czechoslovakia’s Vera Caslavaska, 1964 & 1968).

July 30: Swimmer Katie Ledecky, pictured left. owns the 23 – 23!!!! – fastest times in history the women’s 800 meters. She swims for a third consecutive gold in the event. July 31: Naomi Osaka, who skipped the French Open and Wimbledon for personal reasons, hopes to play for the women’s tennis gold in her home country.

July 31: Can Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce become the first woman to three-peat as women’s 100-meter dash champion?

Aug. 1: Steffi Graf is the only tennis player to win a Golden Slam (titles in the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, U.S. Open & Olympics in a calendar year). Novak Djokovic could be bidding for the fourth leg in the men’s tennis final.

Aug. 3: A showdown looms in the women’s 400 hurdles between fellow Americans Dalilah Muhammad, who won gold in 2016, and Sydney McLaughlin, who broke Muhammad’s world record at the U.S. trials. Aug. 6: The men’s gold medal basketball game is scheduled. The question: The way it has played in tuneup games, will the team of Kevin Durant even get this far? Aug. 7: The United States women’s basketball team arrives in Tokyo on a 49-game Olympic winning streak. A win in the gold medal game would be its seventh and match the Olympic team sport record. Individually, Sue Bird, pictured at right, and Diana Taurasi go for a record fifth gold.