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Hardly half a day passed before politics, the pandemic and blistering heat impacted events across the Tokyo Olympics. China’s Yang Qian, at least, stayed right on target. Yang overtook Anastasiia Galashina of Russia to win the first gold medal of ...

Australian tennis player Alex de Minaur will miss the Olympics after testing positive for Covid-19, according to the country’s Olympic officials. De Minaur, the top-ranked Australian men’s player, returned a positive test for the virus in Spain — where he ...

Athletes at the Tokyo Olympics will put their medals around their own necks to protect against spreading the coronavirus. The “very significant change” to traditional medal ceremonies in the 339 events was revealed Wednesday by International Olympic Committee president Thomas ...

The Olympics is a quadrennial international sports festival in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate. After being postponed for a year due to the global coronavirus outbreak, the 2020 Olympics are upon us. Read on to learn ...

Rafael Nadal and Naomi Osaka are sitting out Wimbledon, leaving the oldest Grand Slam tennis tournament without two of the sport’s biggest stars as it returns after being canceled last year because of the coronavirus pandemic. Nadal, a two-time champion ...

Reigning Olympic tennis gold medalist Monica Puig will miss the Tokyo Games and the rest of the season after having surgery on her right shoulder. Puig, who became the first athlete to win gold for Puerto Rico in any sport ...

Veteran West Indies batsman Chris Gayle has stated that he would “love” to see T10 format of cricket in the Olympics. “I would absolutely love to see T10 within the Olympics. It would be something huge for the sport from ...

2028 Los Angeles Olympics organising committee Chairman Casey Wasserman, in a letter to International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach, has pushed for allowing for advocacy of anti-racism at the Games. Rule 50 of the Olympic Charter, which the IOC ...

Qatar will seek to host the 2032 Olympic Games, it said on Monday, joining a crowded field and raising questions about scorching summer temperatures and underwhelming attendances at past events. India, Australia’s Queensland state, the Chinese city of Shanghai and ...

Next year’s Olympics will be safe despite the coronavirus pandemic, Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike has said, pledging a “120-percent effort” to ensure the first-ever postponed Games can go ahead. Koike — who announced Friday she would stand for re-election next ...