Summer Olympics

Tokyo's Olympic dream is still alive — for now — but many athletes have been left wondering if their hard work will all be for nothing.

Plans for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris are "obsolete and outdated" in light of the coronavirus pandemic, International Olympic Committee member and former French sports minister Guy Drut said Sunday. Drut, who won gold in the 110-meter hurdles in 1976 and took silver in ...

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 organizing committee for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics said Thursday it received a total of 535,717 applications from people hoping to be torchbearers in the buildup to the games. Organizers began accepting applications in June in collaboration with each of the 47 prefectures ...

French authorities investigating corruption in international sports believe a Swiss partner of Japanese advertising giant Dentsu Inc. played a "central and essential role" in deals used to embezzle sponsorship money and have asked Switzerland to raid its office and seize evidence, according to a ...

The results of the lottery will be announced on June 20, and the winners will be required to submit payment by July 2.

Hina Hayata and Mima Ito became the first Japanese women's doubles pair in 48 years to reach the table tennis world championship finals with a victory over compatriots Honoka Hashimoto and Hitomi Sato on Saturday. Hayata and Ito, who claimed bronze at the last worlds ...