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FRANCE were walloped by sorry Japan in the Olympic football competition as Les Bleus crashed out in Yokohama. Takefusa Kubo gave the hosts the lead, then Hiroki Sakai doubled their lead before ... ( read original story ...)

Simone Biles has credited Naomi Osaka for her decision to pull out from the gymnastics team final at the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday, saying the tennis star inspired her to “focus on my mental health.” ... ( read original story ...)

Less than 20 years after the devastation of World War II, the capital was going through profound and rapid development. Tokyo today is a city where the old frequently meets the new, and while some ... ( read original story ...)

Women athletes are competing in record numbers, rejecting sexist policies and a culture of silence many no longer view as the price of competition. ( read original story ...)

The capital city surpassed a record that had been set just a day earlier, notching more than 3,000 new cases on Tuesday. For the first time in four days, no Olympic athletes tested positive. ( read original story ...)

Officials say they will start Olympic matches in the afternoons to avoid some of the sweltering heat that forced one player to withdraw from her match and another to warn a judge, "I can die." ... ( read original story ...)

Players struggled as the temperature rose to 88 degrees but the heat index made it feel like a sizzling 99 degrees. ( read original story ...)

"A day in my life in the Olympic village!" the Nigerian-American basketball player says at the beginning of her video, viewed more than 5 million times. ( read original story ...)

Join our team of writers for live updates from day five of the Olympic Games in Tokyo ... ( read original story ...)

When Michael Phelps found out Simone Biles withdrew from Tuesday’s Olympics gymnastics event, citing mental health, it touched the ex-swimmer’s heart. ( read original story ...)

While it was revealed that Simone Biles will not compete in the all-around final, the U.S. men's basketball team came to life in a rout of Iran. ( read original story ...)

The U.S. Women’s National Team kicks off play in the knockout rounds of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on Friday, July 30, taking on the Netherlands at 8 p.m. local/7 a.m. ET at International Stadium ... ( read original story ...)

A Spanish tennis star was taken off the court in a wheelchair and another asked the umpire who would take responsibility if he died on Wednesday as the hot and humid weather conditions took their toll ... ( read original story ...)

Little-known Japanese swimmer Yui Ohashi giggled politely at the suggestion that she might have become one of the stars of her home country's Olympics in the absence of Naomi Osaka. She dismissed the ... ( read original story ...)

As the Delta variant fuels a surge in infections, a hospital director says "medical system collapse is a real possibility." ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s vaccination minister says the speed of the country’s inoculation campaign is less urgent than getting shots to young people, who are blamed for spreading the virus ... ( read original story ...)