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Naomi Osaka is back on the court, and she’s already won the first two matches in the beginning days of her Olympics debut in Tokyo. On to the third round: Representing Japan in the Games, Osaka faced ... ( read original story ...)

Usman Garuba, a projected first-round pick in the NBA draft, produced one point, six rebounds and one blocked shot as Spain opened up its stay in Tokyo with a strong win over the hometown team. Alex ... ( read original story ...)

An immigration facility in Nagoya said Monday it mistakenly gave a foreign male detainee a meal containing ingredients forbidden by his religion. The man, whose name and other details have been ... ( read original story ...)

Olympian Naomi Osaka has spoken openly about the struggles her parents went through. I want to learn from their courage. ( read original story ...)

Olympic star Naomi Osaka told Insider she eats healthy fats and carbs for breakfast and rehydrates with a sports drink and fruit before lunch. ( read original story ...)

The men's basketball team suffered a stunning seven-point defeat to France and the women's gymnastics team came in second behind Russia in the qualifying round. ( read original story ...)

Simone Biles and company look to rebound from a shaky qualifier as the team goes for gold while two softball powerhouses meet in a gold-medal rematch. ( read original story ...)

The Americans ended pool play with a 5-0 record after Monday's walkoff win, and will try to avenge their championship loss to the host team from 2008. ( read original story ...)

They would have talked about this night in Japan for generations. Imagine: the country’s first men’s basketball game at an Olympics in 45 years, in an arena just north of Tokyo that would have been ... ( read original story ...)

Momiji Nishiya of Japan has won the first ever Olympic skateboard competition for women. The 13-year-old gave the host nation a sweep of golds in the street event a day after after Yuto Horigome won ... ( read original story ...)

The undercard of Summer Struggle in Nagoya has a problem: for those watching all this weekend’s NJPW shows, this is the third consecutive night we’ve seen either these exact matchups or very similar ... ( read original story ...)

Extreme weather, including Tokyo's infamous summer heat and an incoming tropical storm, is the latest factor concerning athletes and Olympic organizers at the already problem-plagued summer games. ( read original story ...)

Will it be a success? A failure? Or none of the above? It will take something much more nuanced than those basic notions to access the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics when they wrap up in two weeks. ( read original story ...)

China lead with the most overall medals in the Tokyo Summer Olympics as of 1:00 p.m. ET on the first Monday of the Games, having secured 18 medals, including six golds. The U.S. trailed in the medal ... ( read original story ...)

Naomi Osaka is ready to keep winning. Osaka, who is competing for Japan, won her second-round match at the Tokyo Summer Olympics on Monday, defeating Switzerland's Viktorija Golubic in two sets, 6-3, ... ( read original story ...)

NBCUniversal’s Olympics coverage is putting a spotlight not only on the world’s top athletes, but on the way American viewers are choosing to watch them. In decades past, fans of swimming competitions ... ( read original story ...)