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The rescheduled games gave athletes another year to train, but also meant ongoing uncertainty as COVID-19 continues to threaten the summer Olympics. ( read original story ...)

To learn more about all the Paralympic hopefuls, visit TeamUSA.org. Watch the Tokyo Paralympic this summer, officially six months from Wednesday, on NBC. ( read original story ...)

Winning the Australian Open on Saturday for her fourth Grand Slam title, Naomi Osaka has solidified her standing as one of the top tennis players in recent history. But her rise has not been limited ... ( read original story ...)

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach has insisted that "everybody who wants to see can see that it is possible" to stage this ... ( read original story ...)

The handover of power at the Tokyo Olympic organising committee to Seiko Hashimoto from Yoshiro Mori has been seamless with Hashimoto showing she is fully prepared to take on the job, the ... ( read original story ...)

Photo credit: kvs.spb.ru St. Petersburg School No. 583 and the School of International, Intercultural and Technological Cooperation of the Japanese city of Sapporo signed an ... ( read original story ...)

American author Steve Flink, who famously penned Pete Sampras' biography, recently gave his thoughts about Naomi Osaka's future prospects following her 2021 Australian Open triumph. Osaka beat ... ( read original story ...)

After meeting with the board of the International Olympic Committee, Tokyo 2020's new president, Seiko Hashimoto told reporters she appointed Mikako Kotani as the head of the gender equality promotion ... ( read original story ...)

These are the rising young stars bound to break out at this summer's Tokyo Olympics. Each of them has taken unique athletic journeys. ( read original story ...)

NBC Universal will air a record 1,200 hours of Paralympic coverage from the Tokyo Games, including the first NBC primetime broadcasts in Paralympic history. ( read original story ...)

The decline indicated that methods for fighting the coronavirus have also been effective at curbing other illnesses. ( read original story ...)

Seiko Hashimoto says the organising committee had set up a gender equality promotion team and reiterated a goal to boost the proportion of women on its board to 40% ... ( read original story ...)

The current use of metal catalysts to develop polymers leads to suboptimal quality polymers that contain metallic impurities and involves a reaction process that is not environment friendly. Now, ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO—Yokohama Rubber Co. has dissolved its Italian-based marine hose company Yokohama Industrial Products Italy S.r.l. Yokohama said fixed assets of the Ortona, Chieti-based subsidiary were sold to a ... ( read original story ...)

Over the last decade, and especially over the last four years, Japan has emerged as a quiet leader in the Indo-Pacific. While the United States abandoned its allies and succumbed to illiberal populism ... ( read original story ...)

NBA superstar LeBron James features twice on the 2020 Laureus World Sport Awards shortlists, in the Sportsman and Team of the Year categories, following a turbulent year in which elite athletes threw ... ( read original story ...)