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CARBIS BAY, England (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday expressed support for the Tokyo Olympics at a meeting with Japan's Yoshihide Suga and welcomed efforts to ensure the Game...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has punished 27 government officials deemed responsible for last month's ultramarathon deaths, the state-run People's Daily said on Friday, one of the world's deadliest sport...

By Antoni Slodkowski and Ami Miyazaki TOKYO (Reuters) - One of Japan's sporting legends and an executive of the country's Olympic committee said on Friday the Tokyo Games should be held without specta...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo 2020 would be "grateful" if Group of Seven countries could support the Summer Games going ahead as planned, Tokyo 2020 organising committee president Seiko Hashimoto told a new...

By Richard Evans ADELAIDE (Reuters) - Australia's top swimmers are gearing up for an Olympics like no other in Tokyo next month but first they have to secure their spots on the team at this week's hig...

By Ian Ransom MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Swimming Australia (SA) have urged Madeline Groves to engage with them about her complaint of "misogynistic perverts" in the sport following her sensational withdra...

Nelson Cruz hit a two-run homer in the ninth inning off Aroldis Chapman and the Minnesota Twins stormed back for a 7-5 victory over the New York Yankees to avert a three-game sweep on Thursday night i...

(Reuters) - Undefeated boxing world champion Claressa Shields survived a series of submission attempts in the first two rounds of her mixed martial arts debut before beating Brittney Elkin by TKO at t...

(Reuters) - New Zealand have named 11 world champions, including Kerri Gowler and Grace Prendergast, among its 32 rowers heading to Tokyo for the Summer Games, the country's Olympic committee (NZOC) s...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Completely shutting out the coronavirus will be too difficult and the focus on COVID measures should be on risk minimisation, said a Tokyo 2020 Olympic coronavirus expert on Friday. ...