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2024 PARIS OLYMPICS

Serbia's Novak Djokovic celebrates after beating Spain's Carlos Alcaraz in the men's singles final at the Paris Olympics on Sunday.
OLYMPICS / Tennis
Aug 6, 2024
Roland Garros delivered an Olympic tourney for the ages
The 37-year-old's win over Carlos Alcaraz was one of the best Olympic matches since the sport returned to the fold in 1988.
Michael Olise of France celebrates after a goal from teammate Jean-Philippe Mateta on Monday.
OLYMPICS
Aug 6, 2024
France sets up Olympic men's soccer final against Spain
France is looking for its second Olympic men's soccer gold medal and first since 1984.
Japan's Shinnosuke Oka poses with his gold medal during the podium ceremony for the artistic gymnastics men's horizontal bar event of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Bercy Arena in Paris on Monday.
OLYMPICS / Gymnastics
Aug 5, 2024
Japan's Shinnosuke Oka wins third gold at Olympics on horizontal bar
The 20-year-old scored the same 14.533 score as Colombia's Angel Barajas, but took gold due to his higher execution mark.
Japan's Koki Kano (right) battles Yannick Borel of France in the gold-medal bout of the men's individual epee at the Paris Olympics on July 28.
OLYMPICS / Fencing
Aug 5, 2024
How a grassroots push helped Japan's fencers become world-beaters
Japan bagged five fencing medals in Paris to put it atop the medal table in the sport, the first time a non-European nation has done so.
Japanese sprinter Abdul Hakim Sani Brown checks his time after the men's 100 meters semifinals on Sunday at the Paris Olympics in Saint-Denis, France.
OLYMPICS / Athletics
Aug 5, 2024
Sani Brown ran under 10 seconds in the men's 100. But in 2024, that’s just not enough.
Sani Brown's near-miss showed the high hurdles sprinters face to compete with an ultracompetitive field.
Hideki Matsuyama during his final round of the Olympic men's golf competition on Sunday at Le Golf National in Guyancourt, France.
OLYMPICS / Golf
Aug 5, 2024
Matsuyama avenges Tokyo heartbreak with bronze in Paris
"I aimed for the gold, but I'm extremely happy to have won this one after struggling at the Tokyo Olympics and not being able to get a medal," Matsuyama said.
The United States' 64-year unbeaten run in the men's 4x100-meter medley ended on Sunday as China swept to a seismic win.
OLYMPICS / Swimming
Aug 5, 2024
U.S. swimming on top again, but alarm bells sounding with LA looming
From Michael Phelps to Johnny Weissmuller, the U.S. has rolled out Olympic champions like a gold medal assembly line. But that production slowed at the Paris Games.
China's Pan Zhanle celebrates after winning Olympic gold and breaking a world record in the men's 100-meter freestyle final on July 31.
OLYMPICS
Aug 5, 2024
China shrugs off doping controversy to win 12 Olympic swimming medals
The team's haul — two gold, three silver and seven bronze — was an improvement on a Tokyo collection of nine.
Supporters of badmington gold medalists Wang Chi-Lin and Lee Yang at the victory ceremony on Sunday in Paris
OLYMPICS / Badminton
Aug 5, 2024
Taiwan cheers Olympics badminton triumph over China in politically charged contest
Wang Chi-Lin and Lee Yang of Taiwan, the reigning champions from the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, won a three-game thriller against China's Liang Weikeng and Wang Chang.
American Scottie Scheffler celebrates after winning Olympic gold at Le Golf National in Guyancourt, France, on Sunday.
OLYMPICS / Golf
Aug 5, 2024
American Scheffler basks in national pride after Olympic golf triumph
Great Britain's Tommy Fleetwood took silver while former Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama won bronze for Japan.
Noah Lyles celebrates after winning gold in the men's 100-meter final at the Paris Olympics on Sunday.
OLYMPICS / Athletics
Aug 5, 2024
Showman Noah Lyles wins 100-meter gold by five thousandths of a second
Lyles had believed he had left it too late to catch the powerful Kishane Thompson, but he was soon confirmed as the winner in a personal best of 9.79 seconds.
From left to right: Yudai Nagano, Takahiro Shikine, Kyosuke Matsuyama and Kazuki Iimura celebrate after winning in the Olympic men's foil team gold medal bout against Italy at the Grand Palais in Paris on Sunday.
OLYMPICS / Fencing
Aug 5, 2024
Japan wins historic gold in men's foil team event in Paris
It was Japan's fifth fencing medal in Paris, and its eighth medal overall in Olympic fencing.
From left: Gymnastics men's team gold medalists Takaaki Sugino, Kazuma Kaya, Wataru Tanigawa, Shinnosuke Oka (who also won gold in men's all-around) and Daiki Hashimoto at Champions Park in Paris on Thursday. The gymnastics team was one of the highlights of a successful first half of the 2024 Games for Team Japan.
OLYMPICS
Aug 4, 2024
Gymnastics and skateboarding highlight a solid first half of the Paris Olympics for Japan
Japan ended Saturday with eight gold, five silver and nine bronze medals and sat seventh on the medal table.
Simone Biles alongside teammate Sunisa Lee after they finished with gold and bronze, respectively, in the women's all-around competition at the Olympics.
OLYMPICS / Gymnastics
Aug 4, 2024
Simone Biles proves to be unifying figure for sports fans in Paris
Stars from other sports and rabid fans from the U.S. and other countries have turned out in droves to watch Biles, proving her position as a unifying figure.
South Korea's Lim Si-hyeon has three gold medals from the 2024 Paris Games. Archers from the country have all been given cars by team sponsor Hyundai.
OLYMPICS
Aug 4, 2024
Diamonds, meatballs and motors: How Olympians can win more than medals
Many rewards are financial, but they can also be more eclectic.
Carlos Yulo of the Philippines cries after winning gold in the men's floor exercise on Saturday at the Paris Olympics.
OLYMPICS / Gymnastics
Aug 4, 2024
'Overwhelmed' Yulo wins historic Olympic gymnastics gold for Philippines
The 24-year-old broke down in tears after matching the achievement of weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz, who won gold at the Tokyo Games three years ago.
Fuka Nagano (left) and Hinata Miyazawa after Japan was eliminated from the Olympic soccer tournament by the U.S. on Saturday in Paris.
OLYMPICS
Aug 4, 2024
For Nadeshiko Japan, the quarterfinals prove to be a stumbling block — again
The team fell 1-0 to the U.S. after also losing in the last eight at the Tokyo Games in 2021 and at the Women’s World Cup in 2023.
Algeria's Imane Khelif celebrates her victory in the quarterfinals of the women's 66-kg weight class at the Paris Games on Saturday.
OLYMPICS / Boxing
Aug 4, 2024
Algerian boxer at center of Olympic eligibility fight clinches medal
Imane Khelif, the boxer at the center of a controversy that has made the women’s boxing tournament in Paris a cultural flashpoint, advanced to the semifinals.
Summer McIntosh celebrates after winning the women's 200-meter individual medley for her third gold medal of the Paris Olympics.
OLYMPICS / Swimming
Aug 4, 2024
McIntosh makes Canadian history with third gold
The 17-year-old swimmer did it in an Olympic record time of 2 minutes, 6.56 seconds, taking down the 2016 record of 2:06.58 set by Hungary's Katinka Hosszu.
American Katie Ledecky celebrates after winning the final of the women's 800-meter freestyle at the Paris Olympics on Saturday.
OLYMPICS / Swimming
Aug 4, 2024
History-making Ledecky eyes Los Angeles after ninth Olympic gold
The 27-year-old superstar hit the wall in 8 minutes, 11.04 seconds, ahead of Australia's Ariarne Titmus (8:12.29) and fellow American Paige Madden (8:13.00).
Small Hokkaido town ranked most comfortable place to live in Japan
Asahidake in Daisetsuzan is located in the town of Higashikawa, Hokkaido, which ranked as the most comfortable municipality in 2024.
After U.S.-South Korea nuclear drills, North girds for ‘long-term’ faceoff
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits O Jin U Artillery Academy in the country on Friday.
Maestro Seiji Ozawa’s prayer for peace lives on in Hiroshima
Maestro Seiji Ozawa (center) lays flowers at the cenotaph for atomic bomb victims at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in October 2005.
Unpacking Japan’s messy leadership election
The Liberal Democratic Party's presidential race is expected to have a record number of candidates.
Panasonic ready to start making next-gen EV cells at Japan plant
Panasonic’s 4680 cylindrical lithium-ion cell
Unpacking Japan’s messy leadership election
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‘When I die, I would like to come back as a rice ball’
Few in Japan may be more passionate about the 'onigiri' (rice ball) than Yumiko Ukon, owner of an onigiri specialty shop in Tokyo's Otsuka neighborhood.
No talking, no eating, no standing: Inside sumo's ring purification ceremony
A sumo referee performs the dohyō matsuri, or ring purification ceremony, in January 2017 at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo.
Demand for Calrose rice rises amid Japanese rice shortage
Shuzo Fukushi, who heads Rice Meister Kojimachi in Tokyo, shows a bag of Calrose mixed with domestic rice at his store on Thursday.
Pasocom Music Club returns to the pure pleasures of the dance floor
Pasocom Music Club’s “Love Flutter” marks an important moment for Japan’s electronic community as project members Aoi Shibata (left) and Masato Nishiyama step into a role other artists once held for them — scene veterans who are inspiring the next generation.

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