Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) Sports News (Master Feed)

By Karolos Grohmann TOKYO (Reuters) - The IOC is still waiting for a formal explanation from the Chinese National Olympic Committee as to why two gold medallists wore badges featuring the head of the ...

(Fixes typo in headline, no change to text) By Daniel Leussink TOKYO (Reuters) - The Netherlands will play in the women's Olympic hockey finals for a fifth straight time at the Tokyo Games after booki...

By Toshiki Hashimoto TOKYO (Reuters) - Hungary's Kolos Csizmadia set an Olympic record to seal direct qualification to the semi-finals of the men's kayak single 200 metres on Wednesday while Rio 2016 ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - American Sydney McLaughlin broke her own 400 metres hurdles world record to win the gold medal in 51.46 seconds at the Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday. The 21-year-old stuttered on the p...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo Olympics organisers on Wednesday reported 29 new Games-related COVID-19 cases, including four athletes. Three of the four infected athletes are in the Greek artistic swimming t...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian side Fluminense beat Cerro Porteno 1-0 on Tuesday to move into the quarter-finals of the Copa Libertadores and ensure that for the first time in the tournament's h...

By Mari Saito TOKYO (Reuters) - Teen skaters from Japan and Britain barrelled and soared over a concrete skate park in the preliminary rounds of the women's park competition on Wednesday in the discip...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The mother of Tokyo Olympic fan favourite Raven Saunders has died, the American athlete said on social media, just days after she won silver in the shot put. "(Leaving) social media ...

By Philip O'Connor TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) - Sweden and Canada have asked Olympic organisers to move what is expected to be a hotly-contested women's gold-medal soccer match on Friday at Tokyo's Olympi...

By Leonardo Benassatto BAIA FORMOSA, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazil's Italo Ferreira won surfing's first ever Olympic gold in Tokyo, and if the reaction in his home town is anything to go by it won't be th...