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(Reuters) - Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya defected whilst in Japan for the Olympics after a dispute with her coaches that made her fear for her safety back in her authoritarian-ruled hom...

By Eimi Yamamitsu TOKYO (Reuters) - China won the Olympic women's team table tennis gold medal on Thursday after a 3-0 victory over Japan in the final, continuing the country's undefeated streak in th...

By Chang-Ran Kim TOKYO (Reuters) - Veteran karate-ka Sandra Sanchez is used to defying the odds, but the thought that she would celebrate a gold medal and a wedding anniversary with her husband-coach ...

By Thiam Ndiaga OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Burkina Faso triple jumper Hugues Fabrice Zango's disappointing first two jumps in the final in Tokyo left his family watching live at home in Ouagadougou stres...

By Rozanna Latiff and Sam Nussey TOKYO (Reuters) - Spanish teenager Alberto Gines Lopez clinched the first-ever gold medal in climbing on Thursday, in a gripping men's final that went down to the wire...

By Amy Tennery TOKYO (Reuters) - With world records smashed and dozens of personal best times achieved on its speedy track, Tokyo's Olympic athletics programme is proving to be one of the most memorab...

By Richa Naidu and Gabrielle Ttrault-Farber TOKYO (Reuters) - German gymnast Kim Bui wore a unitard in the women's all-around final. Her team mate Elisabeth Seitz chose not to. "I just stood in front ...

By Simon Evans TOKYO (Reuters) - The Tokyo Olympics was supposed to be a celebratory farewell for a 'golden generation' of U.S women's soccer players but it ended up with an unconvincing attempt to pu...

By Paresh Dave YOKOHAMA, Japan (Reuters) - The United States will face Japan in baseball's first Olympic gold-medal game in 13 years after defeating defending champions South Korea 7-2 with a barrage ...

By Omar Mohammed TOKYO (Reuters) -Steven Gardiner of the Bahamas won the 400 metres on Thursday, becoming the first athlete to win Olympic gold in an individual men's event in his country's history, a...