Olympics

For the first time since 2008, the 200 metres will be without triple Olympic champion as Team USA bids for the gold

Asia's fastest man finished sixth in the men's 100 metres final on Sunday after qualifying joint-fastest for China

20-year-old Real Madrid's playmaker goes up against the nation that has shaped his football career

Talha Talib’s journey to Olympics highlights the talent hiding in the shadows waiting for recognition

American would make a decision later this week on the beam, the one remaining event she is qualified for at this Games

Katie Ledecky-Ariarne Titmus rivalry lived up to its billing, with the pair locking horns across three quality races

Temperatures in Tokyo over the coming week are forecast to range from maximums of 30 to 34 Celcius

Beijing was awarded the Games in 2015 becoming the first city to host summer and winter editions of the Olympics

While testing out new racket technology in 2013, Malaysia's Tan Boon Hoeng smashed one at 493 km per hour

Country enters a new 'extremely frightening' stage, highly transmissible Delta variant a big factor.

Organisers have administered nearly 275,000 tests, with athletes screened daily and journalists tested before events

At least 193 athletes, media and Games employees and contractors have now tested positive for the virus

The Norwegian smashed Kevin Young's world record at the Oslo Diamond League meeting earlier this month

Australian track and field team are placed in isolation in Tokyo after Sam Kendricks tested positive for coronavirus

24-year-old powered to the wall in a new record time of 47.02sec to dethrone charging defending champion Kyle Chalmers

22-year-old powered through the final 50 to secure his country's fifth gold in the pool so far and first for the men

Egyptian Darwish throws Pakistani judoka 'on his back with impetus and control' to win round-of-32 match

Four-time Games champion revealed she abandoned the competition due to concerns for her mental wellbeing

Second-seed defeated Italy's Fognini 6-2, 3-6, 6-2 to set up a last-eight meeting with Pablo Carreno Busta of Spain

34-year-old Jamaican is hot favourite to match compatriot Usain Bolt with a third gold in the blue ribbon 100m event

Tom Dean collected his second gold medal while James Guy joins Matthew Richards and Duncan Scott in collecting a first

World number one, who beat France's Qi 21-10, 21-13, has a history of slipping up at the Olympics

Storm was originally headed for Tokyo, but has shifted north and is now expected to make landfall to the Miyagi region

33-year-old crossed the line in 1hr 55min 36sec to deliever the first gold medal in history for the tiny island

The Greek third seed downed American Tiafoe 6-3, 6-4 under the centre court roof at Ariake Tennis Park

Home favourite launched himself into an aerial 360 that he landed to score a whopping 9.33 for a place in the final

Four-time Grand Slam winner suffered a 6-1, 6-4 defeat to Marketa Vondrousova that eliminated her from the Games

Many are singing praises for the weightlifter who represented Pakistan at the Olympics in Tokyo.

Asia's US Masters champ is revered like a god in Japan and will have to cope with carrying his nation's golden hopes

Carl Lewis, Usain Bolt and Cathy Freeman transformed their lives with iconic performances at the Olympic Games

Aussie inched clear over the final 50m to touch in 3min 56.69sec; the US team spearheaded to gold by the American star

Gujranwala-born lifts total of 320kgs to bag fifth spot -- 150kgs in snatch, 170kgs in clean and jerk

Japenese star defeated China’s Zheng Saisai 6-1, 6-4 while the world number one fell short to Sorribes Tormo

World number one slumped 6-4 6-3 to the Spaniard Sara Sorribes on Tokyo's blue Olympic courts, in a one-sided contest

34-year-old will stay in Tokyo to play doubles with Salisbury as the pair won their opening game of the competition

18-year-old's gold medal is only the fifth won by a Tunisian athlete at the Olympics, but their third in swimming

US golf star Patrick Reed would take place of the former US Open winner at the Tokyo Games

Ahmed Hafnaoui and Yui Ohashi who made the biggest waves helped their respective countries to victory

Japanese world champion held his nerve to be crowned skateboarding's first Olympic gold medallist

Shooter scores 578 points in 10 metre air pistol event qualification, bags ninth spot

Shuttler beaten 21-3 and 21-8 by Japan's Akane Yamaguchi

So much has changed since Rio -- three-time double sprint champion Bolt is now making music

Kobayashi's comments in video of comedy sketch from 1998 emerged online overnight and sparked shock

Local spectators are barred from almost all venues, with nearly 900 people to attend opening ceremony

Serb tennis star, 34-3 this season, is the undoubted favourite for the men's title

34-year-old British tennis star says he is excited at the prospect of defending his Olympics title for a second time

Japan thrashed Australia 8-1 in the first action of the softball 2020 Games

The host becomes the third Australian city to get the Games after Melbourne in 1956 and Sydney in 2000

American star looks to add to her haul of five Olympic medals, including four gold, won at the 2016 Rio Games

Skateboarding, one of the ultimate emblems of underground subculture, makes its debut at Tokyo this year