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By Sudipto Ganguly TOKYO (Reuters) - Sweden's world champion Daniel Stahl needed just one attempt to qualify for the men's discus final and Qatar's Mutaz Barshim kicked off his bid to add a high-jump ...

By Chang-Ran Kim TOKYO (Reuters) - Boxing world champion Kellie Ann Harrington said Ireland was punching above its weight at the Tokyo Games and hailed the performance of the country's rowers after th...

By Richa Naidu TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan won its first-ever mixed-doubles bronze medal on Friday when Yuta Watanabe and Arisa Higashino, who have played together for a decade, took out Hong Kong's Tang ...

By Ju-min Park and Paresh Dave TOKYO (Reuters) - In an Olympic first, more than 100 archers are broadcasting their heart rates as they go for bullseye at the Tokyo Games, pushing forward contactless h...

By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) - French heavyweight judoka Teddy Riner suffered a shock defeat on Friday, losing to Tamerlan Bashaev of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) team in the men's judo...

By Richa Naidu TOKYO (Reuters) - Badminton in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics over the past week has been a saga of upsets and near-upsets, attributable to a large extent to the exceptional conditions wrought...

By Simon Evans, Mari Saito and Martyn Herman TOKYO (Reuters) - An American swimmer sparked controversy at the Tokyo Games on Friday when he said it would take a long time to clear his sport of doping ...

CHIBA, Japan (Reuters) - Upsets ruled in the men's team epee fencing competition on Friday, with the top four teams crashing out in the quarterfinals. France, Italy, Ukraine, and Switzerland lost and ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Emma McKeon gasped with excitement after winning gold in the Olympic women's 100m freestyle on Friday as Australia's women continued their golden run with a fifth title in the Tokyo ...

Chicago Bears tight end Jake Butt retired from the NFL, saying in a lengthy statement Thursday that he had lost passion for the game. The 26-year-old Butt played collegiately at Michigan and rehabbed ...