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By Amy Tennery NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shelby Houlihan said on Monday she had received a four-year ban for testing positive to an anabolic steroid but the American record-holder in the 1,500m and 5,000m ...

(Reuters) - Katie Ledecky took care of business securing her ticket to Tokyo on Monday with yet another dominating win in the 400 metres freestyle at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials. The world record...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Senior Olympics official John Coates arrived in Tokyo on Tuesday as Games organisers prepared to unveil their latest "playbook" of rules to control COVID-19 infections and the govern...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - An Australian mother has denied a media report her teenage son was forced to wear a women's swimsuit as punishment by a coach amid scrutiny of the country's elite swimming cultur...

By Elaine Lies and Sakura Murakami TOKYO (Reuters) - When Paul Noritaka Tange won the rights to design the Aquatics Centre for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, one of the first things he did was to visit the ...

(Corrects to remove extraneous word from 1st paragraph) BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's Ministry of Health said on Monday that 31 players and Copa America delegation members had tested positive for COVI...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Argentina's Lionel Messi scored one of his trademark free kicks in the first half but Eduardo Vargas equalised for Chile to leave honours even at 1-1 in their Copa America o...

SAN DIEGO, Calif. (Reuters) - Phil Mickelson, fresh off a historic win at the PGA Championship, said on Monday he had a head start on getting reacquainted with Torrey Pines in a bid to bury his U.S. O...

By Helen Coster (Reuters) - NBCUniversal Chief Executive Jeff Shell said on Monday that the upcoming Tokyo Games could be the most profitable Olympics in NBC's history. "I think we're pretty optimisti...

LONDON (Reuters) - This year's Wimbledon men's and women's singles finals will be played with full crowds in attendance on Centre Court, the All England Club said on Monday. They will be the first out...