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By Steve Keating TOKYO (Reuters) - China and Russia, two of Tokyo's top Olympic medal contenders in men's artistic gymnastics, put down markers on Saturday, dominating the first of three qualifying su...

By Karen Braun (Reuters) - Mykayla Skinner finally made the U.S. women's Olympics 2020 gymnastics team after being left off the Rio 2016 squad. The 24-year-old Arizonan's vault is good enough to land ...

By Daniel Leussink TOKYO (Reuters) - Australia powered past hosts Japan 5-3 in a thrilling opening match of the men's hockey tournament at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday, while India fought back from ...

By Martyn Herman TOKYO (Reuters) - Anna van der Breggen knows that if she is to celebrate her final year as a professional cyclist with a second successive Olympic title she will have to beat a team m...

By Ju-min Park TOKYO (Reuters) -The United States suffered a surprise loss to Indonesia in the mixed-team archery competition on Saturday, dashing the 8th-ranked pair's medal hopes. Indonesian pair Di...

By Paresh Dave YOKOHAMA, Japan (Reuters) - Canada took advantage of a pair of throwing errors and piled on Australia to secure a 7-1 win on Saturday to start the third set of softball games at the Tok...

By Philip O'Connor TOKYO (Reuters) - American surfer Caroline Marks eyes the Pacific Ocean carefully before expertly catching a wave and launching into a routine of slashing turns and jumps, fine-tuni...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The International Judo Federation suspended on Saturday an Algerian judoka and his coach for withdrawing from the Tokyo Olympics before his event started, after the draw set him on c...

By Ece Toksabay and Junko Fujita TOKYO (Reuters) - When women's weightlifting was introduced as an Olympic sport in 2000, Papua New Guinea's then 16-year-old Loa Dika Toua became the first-ever female...

By Mari Saito TOKYO (Reuters) -China's Yang Qian won the first gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics in the women's 10-meter rifle competition on Saturday. The silver went to Russian shooter Anastasiia Gal...