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By Sudipto Ganguly TOKYO (Reuters) - Neeraj Chopra's soaring javelin did not just earn India their first Olympic gold in athletics on Saturday, it also meant that the contingent will return from Tokyo...

By Martyn Herman IZU, Japan (Reuters) - It began with an Austrian mathematics lecturer bamboozling a five-star field to snatch gold in the women's road race and culminated in track king Jason Kenny in...

BARCELONA (Reuters) -A tearful Lionel Messi confirmed on Sunday he was leaving FC Barcelona after the club said it could no longer afford paying the Argentine's high wages, adding he was in negotiatio...

TOKYO (Reuters) - In an action-packed Tokyo Olympics that were held in the shadow a pandemic, the upsets were not just confined to the stadiums and sports fields. The following were some of the bigges...

LaMonte Wade Jr. delivered a go-ahead single in the 11th inning and Brandon Belt added a two-run homer, his second long ball of the game, to give the San Francisco Giants a wild 9-6 comeback victory o...

By Junko Fujita TOKYO (Reuters) - Weightlifting was marked by a series of breakthroughs at the Tokyo Olympics -- the first openly transgender athlete to compete at any Games and the Philippine's first...

By Mitch Phillips TOKYO (Reuters) - Two incredible 400m hurdles races, a women's sprint clean sweep, a stunning 100m shock and a shared high jump gold medal will be the indelible athletics memories fr...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Serbia beat Greece to win the gold medal in the men's water polo competition at the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday. Greece were awarded silver, while Hungary claimed bronze after beating S...

By Amy Tennery TOKYO (Reuters) - A late surge put the United States at the top of the medals table on the final day as the Americans closed the book on the Tokyo Olympics. The team had more than 100 m...

(Reuters) - The close of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics does not mean the end of financial questions surrounding an event that went ahead without spectators and cost more than twice as much to host as initia...