While the eyes of the world will soon be upon Paris and the sporting competition, we take a look back at the last summer Olympics, which took place in the Japanese capital of Tokyo, and marked the ...

Of the 366 athletes who went to the Rio Olympic Games for Team GB, 130 returned with a medal Badminton is one of five sports to lose all UK Sport funding for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo - after Britain ...

TOKYO, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Tokyo 2020 Sports Director Koji Murofushi has left to join the Japan Sports Agency, the organising committee said on Friday, a departure that comes just 10 months before the ...

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - The decision to award Tokyo the 2020 Olympic Games was a triumph of business sense as much as common sense, and a unequivocal endorsement of Asia's dynamic economies and its ...

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics are set to be the most inclusive Games ever. With more than 160 openly lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer athletes due to participate. But the inclusion has put a ...

Ge Manqi (2nd from L) cried after the women's 4X100m relay final at the 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar, on Oct. 5, 2019. (Xinhua/Li Gang) One thing remains certain in the ...

TOKYO, August 7. /TASS/. Team ROC (the Russian Olympic Committee) players Vyacheslav Krasilnikov and Oleg Stoyanovsky took the silver of the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in men’s beach volleyball ...

Jacques Rogge President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announces Tokyo as the city to host the 2020 Summer Olympic Games during a ceremony in Buenos Aires September 7, 2013.

Japan has unveiled the names of its mascots for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Blue and white checked character “MIraitowa” (pronounced miray-towa)– combining the two Japanese words of ...

With the Winter Olympics barely over, Tokyo is already gearing up for its time to shine. Japanese school children have decided on the mascots for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games — two futuristic ...