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TOKYO (Reuters) -Canada's Andre De Grasse won the men's 200 metres gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday with a scorching time of 19.62 seconds, a national record. De Grasse, who claimed the 1...

By Omar Mohammed TOKYO (Reuters) - Kenya's Emmanuel Korir won the Olympic men's 800 metres gold medal on Wednesday, extending the East African nation's dominance of an event they have now won four tim...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Svetlana Romashina won a record sixth gold to become the most decorated Olympian in synchronised swimming when she and Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) partner Svetlana Kolesnichenko ...

By Sam Nussey and Rozanna Latiff TOKYO (Reuters) - Commentators at climbing's Olympic debut in Tokyo are compensating for mostly empty venues with a wall of encouragement for the athletes, as the spor...

By Shadia Nasralla and Steve Keating TOKYO (Reuters) -Britain's Ben Maher on his horse Explosion won individual show jumping gold at the Olympics on Wednesday in a hair-raising jump-off with three Swe...

By Amy Tennery TOKYO (Reuters) - Heptathlon world champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson's Olympic bid ended abruptly on Wednesday when she collapsed to the track during the 200 metres event, months after...

By Simon Evans TOKYO (Reuters) -Peruth Chemutai became the first Ugandan woman to win an Olympic gold medal in any sport when she triumphed in the women's 3,000m steeplechase on Wednesday. The 22-year...

By Martyn Herman IZU, Japan (Reuters) - Italy produced an electrifying finish to beat favourites Denmark for gold in a thrilling men's team pursuit final at the Izu Velodrome on Wednesday. Powered hom...

By Martin Petty TOKYO (Reuters) - Podium protests are rare at the Olympic Games, but few are less likely than an athlete protesting against himself. British boxer Ben Whittaker was so disappointed by ...

By Sam Nussey and Rozanna Latiff TOKYO (Reuters) - Poland's Aleksandra Miroslaw took an early lead in the women's Olympic climbing qualifiers in Tokyo on Wednesday with a 6.97 second run in the openin...