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PRAGUE (Reuters) - Czech beach volleyball trainer Simon Nausch has tested positive for COVID-19, the Czech Olympic team said on Tuesday. Nausch is the third member of the Czech delegation to be confir...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The head of the Tokyo Olympics organising committee on Tuesday did not rule out a last-minute cancellation of the global sporting showpiece, which starts on Friday. Asked at a news c...

By Umar Farooq ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A South Korean Paralympian was missing on Tuesday after falling from the world's 12th highest mountain, the 8,047-metre (26,400 foot) Broad Peak in northern Pakist...

By Lee Ying Shan and Joseph Campbell SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Burpees are the gym exercise everyone loves to hate: You start in a standing position. Bend down, and with hands on the ground, hop your legs...

(Reuters) - The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has rejected a request by two women's basketball players to represent Nigeria at the Tokyo Olympics, after they were not selected in the United Sta...

ZURICH (Reuters) - World Health Organization head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a Tokyo Olympics Twitter message on Tuesday that COVID-19 can be defeated if all play their part. "Glad to be in Ja...

(Reuters) - Rohan Bopanna has accused the governing body of Indian tennis (AITA) of having "misled" players, the government and media over his nomination to the Tokyo Olympics doubles competition with...

By Martin Petty TOKYO (Reuters) - The U.S. women's soccer team are looking for payback when they kick off their Olympic campaign with what promises to be a tough challenge against Sweden on Wednesday,...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Host-nation Japan is projected to improve its medals haul at the Tokyo Olympics by 50% from the Rio de Janeiro Games, according to data analysts Gracenote. Japan won a record-breakin...

Italy's Stefano Travaglia pulled off an upset Monday as the Plava Laguna Croatia Open began in Umag, beating sixth-seeded Jaume Munar of Spain 6-3, 7-6 (1). Travaglia won 73 percent of his first-serve...