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By Mitch Phillips TOKYO (Reuters) - Steven Gardiner of the Bahamas won the Olympic 400 metres title on Thursday but it was the failure of the formerly all-conquering American men that was talk of the ...

By Sudipto Ganguly TOKYO (Reuters) -Canadian Damian Warner led from start to finish to win the men's decathlon gold at the Tokyo Olympics on Thursday with a new Games record score of 9,018 points. Fre...

TOKYO (Reuters) - American Katie Nageotte needed a third and final attempt to clear her opening height but overcame the nervous start to win the Olympic women's pole vault gold medal on Thursday. The ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. men continued to sputter on the Olympic athletics track, failing to qualify https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/athletics-us-fail-make-mens-4x100-relay-final-2021-08-05 in ...

By Gabrielle Ttrault-Farber WARSAW (Reuters) - Olympic sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya decided to defect as she was being driven to a Tokyo airport because her grandmother told her that it wasn't saf...

By Mitch Phillips TOKYO (Reuters) - As athletics records continue to fall at the Olympics, adulation and incredulity at such extreme examples of human endeavour are being followed by more sober reflec...

TOKYO (Reuters) -The United States women's team won the Olympics bronze medal with Megan Rapinoe and Carli Lloyd scoring two goals each in a 4-3 win over Australia in Kashima on Thursday. The American...

IZU, Japan (Reuters) - Jason Kenny's hold on the Olympic sprint title is over after the British track cycling great was eliminated in the quarter-finals by Dutch flier Harrie Lavreysen on Thursday. Th...

IZU, Japan (Reuters) - Shanne Braspennincx of the Netherlands won the gold medal in the Olympic women's keirin at the Izu Velodrome on Thursday. Ellesse Andrews of New Zealand took the silver medal an...

SAPPORO, Japan (Reuters) - Italy's Massimo Stano won the Olympic men's 20km race walk in Sapporo on Thursday. Japan's Koki Ikeda took the silver medal and Toshikazu Yamanishi, also from Japan, claimed...