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By Martyn Herman TOKYO (Reuters) - Colombian Mariana Pajon's long reign as queen of women's BMX racing was ended by Britain's Bethany Shriever on an accident-marred day at the Tokyo Olympics on Friday...

By Sudipto Ganguly TOKYO (Reuters) - Norway's double world champion Karsten Warholm and his closest rival American Rai Benjamin cruised through the men's 400 metres hurdles heats on Friday to stay on ...

By Helen Coster (Reuters) - Broadcasters will not be taking home any gold medals for how many people have watched the Tokyo Olympic Games so far. In several major markets around the world, the TV audi...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese kayaker Kazuya Adachi is taking on European domination of canoeing with a bespoke boat built by race car engineers who had never designed a kayak before and did not bother l...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Bethany Shriever of Britain won the Olympic women's BMX race gold medal on Friday at the Ariake Urban Sports Park. Colombian Mariana Pajon took silver and Dutch rider Merel Smulders ...

By Mayu Sakoda TOKYO (Reuters) - The morning session in the women's Olympic Rugby Sevens could not be completed on Friday after lightning over the Tokyo Stadium delayed the final match between New Zea...

By Martyn Herman TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) - Niek Kimmann of the Netherlands won gold in the Olympic men's BMX racing event on Friday. Britain's Kye Whyte took the silver medal with Colombia's Carlos Alb...

TOKYO (Reuters) - United States swimmer Ryan Murphy said Friday's 200m backstroke final was "probably not clean" after he lost his Olympic title to Russian Evgeny Rylov. Murphy won gold in the 100 and...

By Omar Mohammed NAIROBI (Reuters) - Ethiopia's Lamecha Girma cruised to the final of the men's 3,000 metres steeplechase on Friday with the fastest time of the round of 8:09.83, sending a signal he w...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The growing rivalry between Bulgarian Antoaneta Kostadinova and Russian Vitalina Batsarashkina will take centre stage at the Asaka Shooting Range on Friday when they go for gold in t...