Yuto Horigome won the men's street skateboarding on Sunday, the first Olympic gold medal for the sport. Further success came ...

Japan’s National Stadium was fan-less four years ago during the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics; zero atmosphere in the $1.4 billion, 60,000-seat venue for the globe’s greatest track and field ...

Tokyo’s bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics wasn’t a sexy one. But the promise of efficiency, competence and high-tech wizardry was more than enough to convince members of the International Olympic ...

Tokyo's Olympic Stadium will sit empty Friday -- the day thousands were supposed to descend on the venue for the 2020 Summer ...

At the 2020 Tokyo Games, an impressive four different sports were contested at the Olympics for the first time: karate, ...

TOKYO, March 2 (Reuters) - The Tokyo 2020 organising committee said on Tuesday it would add 12 new women to its board, more than doubling the ratio of women to 42 percent, after its former president, ...

TOKYO - The world needs to see that Japan can stage a safe Olympics, the country’s prime minister told sports officials Tuesday ahead of the Tokyo Games. Tens of thousands of athletes, officials, ...

Katie Ledecky, Andy Murray and Lisa Carrington are a few of the athletes vying for a third straight gold medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Japan's two young sprint hopefuls Yoshihide Kiryu and Ryota Yamagata are hoping to catch the eye at the Moscow world championships, not only to develop their own careers but also ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TOKYO (AP) — Two multiracial athletes, two ...

The International Olympic Committee’s three major Japanese sponsors — Toyota, Panasonic and Bridgestone — are terminating ...