Start times of Olympic tennis matches shifted to avoid extreme Tokyo heat
The International Tennis Federation said Wednesday it will move the daily start time of all Tokyo Olympic matches back to 3 p.m. to avoid the worst of the heat. Citing player health and welfare, tennis's governing body said from Thursday singles, doubles and mixed doubles ...
Japan's Daiki Hashimoto wins men's gymnastics all-around gold
The win by Hashimoto, 19, ensures that the men's Olympic all-around title stays with Japan despite the absence of two-time defending champion Kohei Uchimura from this year's contest.
World number one Kento Momota was stunned by number 38 South Korea's Heo Kwang-hee on Wednesday, going down 15-21, 19-21 and looking visibly despondent at each lost point.
Chizuru Arai makes it six golds in five nights for Japan's judoka
Arai, the world champion in 2017 and 2018, capped her Olympic debut by defeating Austria’s Michaela Polleres to win the gold medal on Wednesday night at Nippon Budokan
Rails, nails and bails win over the Olympic spirit
The significance of Japan's Olympic gold-medal skateboarding wins is that they show there’s a raft of sports that many don’t take seriously but deserve credit.
In Olympic cycling, Anna Kiesenhofer shocked the Dutch — and even herself
When the Tokyo Games conclude, one of the most remarkable stories will be that of cyclist Anna Kiesenhofer, who took gold in Sunday’s road race against a field packed full of talent.
Athletes such as tennis superstar Naomi Osaka and now Biles have highlighted the immense pressures on them, raising questions about mental health issues.
An injury almost ended Mikiko Ando's Olympics before they began. Now she's a bronze medalist.
Ando had severely hurt her knee when she dropped a 120-kg barbell just three weeks before the Tokyo Olympics.
Rugby's missed opportunity in Tokyo: From a packed house in 2019 to empty stands in 2021
Almost two years and a pandemic later, Tokyo Stadium sat empty for the finals of the OIympic rugby sevens match between New Zealand and defending champions Fiji.
As athletics records tumble, new shoe technology puts comparisons in question
Since the arrival of thick-soled, carbon-plated road shoes and now their track spike equivalent, long-standing records set by the sport's all-time greats are being obliterated.
Twice is nice: Japan's Yui Ohashi wins second gold of the Games in women's 200-meter IM
Tomoru Honda also added to Japan's medal haul in the pool, earning a silver in the men's 200-meter butterfly.
Olympics organizers admit to wasting about 4,000 boxes of food
Due to volunteers' heavy workload, they did not have a chance to eat the food at the opening ceremony, and it was turned into animal feed and used for biomass power generation.
