Olympics

A giant floating monument of the five Olympic rings was temporarily removed Thursday from its location in Tokyo Bay to undergo safety inspections and maintenance following the games' postponement due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. The monument, measuring 33 meters in width and 15 meters ...

Tour-level tennis has resumed after a five-month enforced break, with players at the Palermo Ladies Open handling their own towels and not shaking the hands of opponents. Due to the novel coronavirus strict rules at the event, in which competitive rounds began Monday, included no ...

Some athletes have chosen not to wait another year to participate in the delayed Tokyo Games.

Brazil has set up its Olympic training camp in Rio... Rio Maior that is, a relatively small Portuguese city of 21,000 residents outside Lisbon. The Olympic committee feared its team would lag before the Tokyo Games next year after months of inactivity at home. So ...

It has been described as the first major international sports scandal, and still resonates more than a century later. Jim Thorpe, a Native American who seemed to excel at every sport he tried, was seen as one of the world's top athletes after winning gold ...

The Japanese Olympic Committee is sticking to its goal of winning 30 gold medals at the Tokyo Games.

On Friday, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach hinted at possible spectator reductions at the Tokyo Games following their one-year postponement

The senior Olympic official believes that preventing fans from attending the games from overseas would run counter to the event's cosmopolitan spirit.

A Human Rights Watch report has found child athletes in Japan often suffer physical and verbal abuse and sometimes sexual abuse during training.

Organizers have been negotiating with facility owners to ensure the use of the previously arranged venues when the games take place in July 2021.

The 2022 Dakar Youth Olympics were postponed by four years on Wednesday, in further fallout from delaying the Tokyo Olympics to 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said the decision was discussed two days ago in a telephone conversation ...