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TOKYO (Reuters) - International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach and Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike were set to meet on Thursday, the metropolitan government said, as COVID-19 cases hit a six-mont...

By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese swimmer Rikako Ikee does not really expect to win gold in the two events she will race in at the Tokyo Games but that does not matter. After surviving leukaem...

By Alan Baldwin LONDON (Reuters) - Adam Peaty can make history in Tokyo as the first Briton to defend an Olympic swimming title but he wants to do more than just win. The 26-year-old has been so domin...

By Alan Baldwin LONDON (Reuters) - Matt Biondi won 11 Olympic medals, including eight golds, but the American can see a day where the Games are no longer the main event for elite swimmers. The 55-year...

By Alan Baldwin LONDON (Reuters) - When Alice Dearing earned her ticket to Tokyo 2020 as the first Black female swimmer to represent Britain at an Olympics, she spoke of "decades and decades of histor...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge has nullified New York Racing Association's (NYRA) suspension of famed thoroughbred trainer Bob Baffert, saying the organisation failed to provide him a post-suspe...

Tennis Hall of Famer Shirley Fry Irvin has died. She was 94. According to the International Tennis Hall of Fame, she died in her sleep Tuesday at Naples, Fla. She was known as Shirley Fry during a car...

(Reuters) - Two Russian swimmers who have qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics were provisionally suspended by the sport's world body FINA on Wednesday for suspected anti-doping rule violations. FINA...

By Frank Pingue (Reuters) - The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) hopes to have more concrete expansion plans in place by this time next year after the COVID-19 pandemic delayed progress,...

(Reuters) - British men's tennis number one Dan Evans said he will miss the Tokyo Olympics following a positive test for COVID-19 in another blow to Team GB after Johanna Konta also pulled out. Konta,...