Olympics

The Japan Sport Council said Wednesday it will close two major Olympic training facilities in response to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's declaration of a state of emergency, to curb the spread of COVID-19. Athletes will be unable to use the National Training Center and Japan ...

About 6,500 athletes who already have earned their spots for the Tokyo Games are in for 2021 under re-drawn qualifying regulations published Tuesday by the International Olympic Committee. The IOC released its rewritten roadmap for qualifying for the games, which were rescheduled due to the ...

It has been 22 years since Katsunari Takayama first picked up boxing gloves. But the burning passion is still there. The 36-year-old Takayama retired as a professional boxer in 2017 to focus on competing at the Tokyo Olympics, an ambition that went unrealized after he ...

The public exhibition of the Olympic flame in Fukushima Prefecture will be suspended after Wednesday due to escalating concerns about the spread of the new coronavirus in Japan, the Tokyo Games organizing committee said Tuesday. The flame was put on display last Thursday following the ...

When Tokyo won the rights to host the 2020 Summer Games in 2013, retired top fencer Kenichi Chida was determined to find a role to play, having been one of the "phantom athletes" who never made it to the boycotted 1980 Games in Moscow. Born ...

The unprecedented decision to postpone the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics for a year amid the spread of the coronavirus has highlighted the impotence of Japan's sports community. Although the decision was finalized at a lofty political level, it only happened after individual athletes forced the ...

FIFA has extended the age limit for the men’s soccer tournament at the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics due to the coronavirus pandemic. The amended Olympic rule on Friday retains the "players born on or after Jan. 1, 1997” standard for the Tokyo Games following a one-year ...

Postponing the Tokyo Olympics to 2021 will make the event more costly for all parties, the International Olympic Committee acknowledged Thursday, although it offered few details on what the final bill might be. Four directors of the Olympic body held a conference call three days ...

Kit McConnell, the International Olympic Committee's sports director, said Thursday he anticipates the marathon and race walking events will remain in Sapporo next year for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, which have been postponed until 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Speaking on a conference call, ...

Organizers of the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing say they will conduct a "detailed assessment” of the impact the decision to postpone the Tokyo Olympics to next year will have on their own plans. In a statement carried by the official Xinhua News Agency, Beijing ...