Olympics

Dame Sarah Storey made history by becoming Great Britain’s most successful Paralympian after powering back to claim the 17th gold of her glittering career at Tokyo 2020. Cycling star Storey ...

The 2020 Paralympic Games will kick off in Tokyo with the opening ceremony on Tuesday as Japan struggles with its worst COVID-19 outbreak so far, record daily cases and an overwhelmed ...

A member of Japan’s gold medal-winning softball team will have her medal replaced with a fresh one after the mayor of her hometown chomped down on the original, Tokyo 2020 ...

There have been tears. There has been controversy. But for LGBT+ people, the Tokyo 2020 Olympics marked a highpoint for visibility, acceptance and medals, with a record number of gay, lesbian, ...

A tropical storm was scheduled to sweep into Tokyo on the final day of the Olympics on Sunday, only to weaken shortly prior to landfall and fail to flood the ...

t the conclusion of every Olympics, there are reflections on the importance and relevance of the Games. There are always a wide range of opinions, from those who praise the ...

Tokyo doused its Olympic flame in a ceremony on Sunday that echoed the restraint of a Games that played out without spectators and were defined and transformed by the global ...

The United States ended a drought and India seized their first ever gold medal in athletics at the Olympics on Saturday, while baseball-mad Japan won their maiden gold in the ...

Brazil retained their Olympic football title with substitute Malcolm scoring an extra-time winner in a 2-1 victory over Spain in Saturday’s men’s gold medal game. After the game ...

Cyprus enjoyed a successful Tokyo Olympics, with the 15-strong athlete delegation giving some very good performances, despite returning home without a medal. The best-placed finishes were by Pavlos Kontides, who ...

Neeraj Chopra won the men’s javelin on Saturday with a best throw of 87.58 metres to claim an historic first Olympic athletics gold medal for India. The Czech Republic’s ...

Germany’s modern pentathlon coach Kim Raisner will not be part of Saturday’s men’s individual competition at the Tokyo Olympics after she hit a horse with her fist ...

NBA superstar Kevin Durant led Team USA’s victory over France in the men’s basketball final in Tokyo on Saturday, avenging a first-round loss and claiming a 16th gold ...

“Now that raw emotions have subsided, I realise how big a success fourth place at an Olympic Games is,” said Cyprus sailing star Pavlos Kontides at a press conference at ...

The Paris 2024 Olympics organising committee will attempt a world record on Sunday when they will unfurl from the Eiffel tower and fly what they hope will be the biggest flag ...

Two Belarus coaches who cut short https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/exclusive-belarusian-sprinter-decided-defect-way-airport-family-fears-about-2021-08-05 sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya’s Tokyo Games have had their accreditation revoked and were removed from ...

U.S. men continued to sputter on the Olympic athletics track, failing to qualify in the 4×100 metres finals and suffering in an upset in the 110m hurdles where they were ...

As athletics records continue to fall at the Olympics, adulation and incredulity at such extreme examples of human endeavour are being followed by more sober reflection as fans try to ...

Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya landed on Wednesday in Poland to take refuge after defying an order to return early to her authoritarian homeland from the Tokyo Olympics. Reminiscent of sporting ...

Facebook mistakenly blocked gold medallist sprinter Elaine Thompson-Herah, the fastest woman in the world, from Instagram, the company said on Wednesday. The Jamaican sprinter had tweeted that she had been ...

Cyprus track star Eleni Artymata missed out on qualifying for the women’s 400m final at the Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday despite setting a new Cypriot record in the event. ...

Canada’s Andre De Grasse added gold to a groaning collection of minor medals with victory in the 200 metres, Kenya went one-two in the men’s 800m and Peruth Chemutai ...

Elaine Thompson-Herah completed a second successive sprint double, Karsten Warholm won the 400m hurdles with an astonishing world record and American teenager Mu Athing crushed the 800 metres on an incredible ...

TWO Cypriot athletes progressed to the semi-finals of their track events at the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday. Eleni Artymata qualified for the semi-finals of the women’s 400 metres, while Milan ...