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TOKYO (Reuters) - Wang Zhouyu won the women's 87 kg class on Monday to give China its sixth gold medal in weightlifting at the Tokyo Olympics. The 27-year-old lifted a combined weight of 270 kg, a com...

By Yuka Obayashi TOKYO (Reuters) - The United States defeated Italy in a see-saw five-set battle at the Ariake Arena on Monday to finish on top in Pool B of the women's volleyball preliminaries, overc...

IZU, Japan (Reuters) - China's women broke their own team sprint world record with a time of 31.804 seconds to beat Lithuania in the first round at the Olympics on Monday. The Chinese pair of Bao Shan...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Liu Yang led a China one-two in the men's gymnastics rings event final at the Tokyo Olympics on Monday, claiming a slim victory over compatriot You Hao. Greece's Eleftherios Petrouni...

By Daniel Leussink TOKYO (Reuters) - India reached the semi-finals of the women's Olympic hockey tournament on Monday after securing a hard-fought 1-0 win over Australia following a tense match at the...

By Gabrielle Ttrault-Farber, Karolos Grohmann and Amy Tennery TOKYO (Reuters) - Political tension played out around a Belarusian sprinter at the Tokyo Games on Monday while organisers said they were l...

TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. gymnast Simone Biles is on the start list for Tuesday's balance beam final, according to the Tokyo 2020 schedule posted on Monday afternoon. Biles, who won four golds in the 201...

By Rocky Swift SAITAMA (Reuters) - The United States on Monday clinched a top seed in the quarter-finals of Olympic women's basketball, beating a game French team who squeaked through to the next roun...

By Martyn Herman IZU, Japan (Reuters) - After more than a week of spectatorless Olympic arenas, fans arriving to the Izu Velodrome on Monday to view the action at close quarters are a welcome tonic fo...

By Paresh Dave YOKOHAMA, Japan (Reuters) - Defending champions South Korea smashed Israel's pitching on Monday, earning 18 hits in an 11-1 mercy-rule win to secure the first final-four berth of the si...