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Sources have claimed that tennis star Naomi Osaka was not the first choice to light the Olympic flame at Tokyo 2020 this year. According to the Express, former Olympic Committee chair, Yoshiro Mori ... ( read original story ...)

Gable Steveson, named after US wrestling legend Dan Gable, upsets Georgia’s Geno Petriashvili to win his first Olympic gold medal. ( read original story ...)

Himawari Akaho scored 17 points, and Japan beat France 87-71 Friday night to advance to the women's basketball gold medal game of the Olympics for the first time in the country's history. ( read original story ...)

On Tuesday evening about a dozen people huddled together around a big screen TV at a sports bar in a residential neighborhood in western Tokyo to watch Japan face off against Spain in the men’s soccer ... ( read original story ...)

Sebastian Córdova opened the scoring and added two assists to lead Mexico to a 3-1 victory over host Japan in the bronze medal match in Olympic men’s soccer on Friday. It is only the second time ... ( read original story ...)

Eliud Kipchoge looks at the early-morning heat and the heavy humidity forecast for the marathon with a cool demeanor. “All of us," the defending Olympic champion from Kenya recently said, “will be in ... ( read original story ...)

The mayor of Nagoya, Japan, apologized for a gesture that some called insulting and unhygienic amid the coronavirus pandemic. ( read original story ...)

Imagine Olympic swimming without the world’s top 100. Or track and field missing the 100 strongest and fastest. Or gymnastics, if the 100 most talented weren’t on hand. That’s what the Olympic ... ( read original story ...)

ONE of Clark Freeport’s leading manufacturing firms has pledged to donate tires for the emergency service vehicles of host communities to ... ( read original story ...)

Ross — with Alix Klineman — finally secured beach volleyball gold. Elsewhere, the U.S. women's basketball team advanced to the gold medal game. ( read original story ...)

American women had a good day at the beach and on the courts in Tokyo on Friday, with one Olympic gold medal won and a couple more set up for the taking. The United States beach volleyball team of ... ( read original story ...)

Three days before the Olympics began, on July 20, Japan’s National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) reported to an international organization that the highly infectious Lambda variant had been ... ( read original story ...)

Allyson Felix chases U.S. track and field history. American women to play for Olympic gold in both basketball and indoor volleyball. ( read original story ...)

Japan reached the milestone of one million coronavirus cases on Friday, domestic media reported, as infections soared in Olympic host Tokyo and other urban areas as the country struggled to contain ... ( read original story ...)