By 2028, a new stadium being built for the Rams and the Chargers will have been beaten up by nearly a decade of NFL games. The seemingly intractable problems of Southern California — traffic and homelessness — might get better or grow worse. So much can change in 11 years. Los Angeles' ...
Los Angeles has reached an agreement with International Olympic leaders that will open the way for the city to host ...
The new National Stadium being built for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be used exclusively for team ball sports like ...
The final of the men's soccer final at the 2020 Tokyo Games could be moved from the new national stadium, a source said Thursday. The bid plan had the soccer final during the day and athletics in the evening of Aug. 8 at the venue. ...
The International Olympic Committee on Friday approved the Tokyo 2020 Olympic event program in a move that will increase female participation while reducing the total number of competitors. The decision by the IOC's executive board will see 15 more events than were competed in last ...
Japan's No. 7 catches the ball but before he has time to react, a hulking, tattooed Australian is bearing down on him. The collision sends a jarring squeal of metal against metal around the arena, and the crowd winces in unison before peering back through ...
The International Olympic Committee's evaluation commission got the full Los Angeles experience on Thursday, playing basketball at the Staples Center, hitting Santa Monica beach and negotiating the city's notorious traffic. After spending Wednesday indoors hearing presentations from Los Angeles 2024 bid officials, the commission and ...
Japan's sports governing bodies visited planned venue sites for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics on Monday, with some calling for optimizing home advantages for the host country's athletes. In the first such inspection to check the state of preparations for the sporting event, representatives of ...
There may still be three years to go until the Tokyo Olympics, but Japan women's softball national team head coach Reika Utsugi and players Yukiko Ueno and Eri Yamada are already psyched up. Because they absolutely know how big of a deal it is for ...
Miu Hirano completed a remarkable run at the Asian table tennis championships on Saturday, winning the women's singles title after defeating the world's top two players on their home turf. The 17-year-old Hirano silenced the home crowd in the final, beating world No. 5 Cheng ...
Organizers of the 2016 Rio Olympics denied on Friday that vote buying helped to secure the games after a French newspaper reported that a Brazilian businessman made payments to the son of an International Olympic Committee member before the vote. Le Monde said a company ...
While it is not certain Japan will even bid for the 2026 Olympics, Sapporo Mayor Katsuhiro Akimoto said his city is ready to host its second winter games, provided it can avoid the problems that have plagued Tokyo in the lead-up to the 2020 ...
Five-time Olympic medal-winning swimmer and former world-record holder Tsuyoshi Yamanaka died of pneumonia Friday at a Tokyo hospital, his family said. He was 78. Yamanaka won two silver medals in the men's 400- and 1,500-meter freestyle at the 1956 Melbourne Games as a high school ...
The Japanese Olympic Committee mistakenly used the photo of China's synchronized swimming team instead of Japan's in its annual calendar for 2017, an informed source said Saturday. It has come to light after someone with the Japanese national team pointed out to the JOC, and ...
The one-year countdown to the Pyeongchang Games began Thursday with Yuna Kim revealing the Olympic torch and organizers opening online ticket reservations. South Korean Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn and an International Olympic Committee delegation led by Gunilla Lindberg, who heads the IOC's coordination commission for ...
