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By Sudipto Ganguly TOKYO (Reuters) - Novak Djokovic is closing in on something that no man has achieved before, but for the Serbian "pressure is a privilege". Steffi Graf is the only tennis player to ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The Latvia men's team defeated the Russian Olympic Committee 21-18 on Wednesday to claim the first ever Olympic gold medal in 3x3 basketball. (Reporting by Rocky Swift, editing by Ed...

By Kayon Raynor KINGSTON, Jamaica (Reuters) - Usain Bolt believes the only person that can stop his fellow Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce from winning a third Olympic 100 metres title at the Tokyo G...

By Steve Keating TOKYO (Reuters) - Daiki Hashimoto maintained Japan's grip on the Olympic men's gymnastics all-around crown on Wednesday, clinching victory with a spectacular high bar routine. With 'K...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The United States women defeated the Russian Olympic Committee team on Wednesday to claim the first ever Olympic gold medal in 3x3 basketball. The score was 18-15 when the final whis...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Daiki Hashimoto of Japan won the men's all-around gymnastics gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday. China's Xiao Ruoteng won silver and the bronze went to Russian Nikita Nago...

TOKYO (Reuters) -China's Shi Zhiyong broke his own world record to win the men's 73kg weightlifting event at the Olympics on Wednesday and claim a gold medal for the second Games in a row. The 27-year...

By Frank Pingue (Reuters) - The U.S. women's national soccer team (USWNT) have been handed $1 million from a small California-based athletic apparel company so they can get a taste of being rewarded l...

By Sam Nussey (Reuters) - Reigning world champions the United States lost 10-9 to Hungary at the Tatsumi Water Polo Centre on Wednesday - their first defeat at the Olympics since 2008 and ending the l...

By Shadia Nasralla TOKYO (Reuters) - Germany's Jessica von Bredow-Werndl won individual equestrian dressage gold on Wednesday, performing "horse ballet" on her mare Dalera to the soundtrack of the fil...