There will be five (well, actually six) new sports added to the programme at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) considered multiple factors when deciding which ...

(Photo by Jamie McDonald/Getty Images for Laureus) (ATR) Tokyo 2020 gets set to recommend new sports for the Olympic program. Japanese media speculate that up to five additional sports will be ...

And nothing could be further from the truth. Narrator: They also have a long list of expenses to train for their sport. Lauryn: And you also are responsible for your coach, making sure that they ...

Earlier this year at the annual SportAccord Convention in Bangkok, Thailand, federations publicly raised concerns with Tokyo 2020’s opaque attitude towards sport preparations. World Sailing ...

NOC and Tokyo 2020 medical staff reported 1035 injuries and 438 illnesses ... resulting in no time lost from sport. Conclusion Overall, 9% of the athletes incurred an injury and 4% an illness during ...

Three years ago, Mutaz Barshim and Gianmarco Tamberi decided to go 50-50 for first place in the men's high jump at the Tokyo Games rather than jump-off for it. This time, USA's Shelby McEwen and ...

Washington Wizards assistant Adam Caporn has been hired as head coach of the Australian men’s basketball team after serving ...

Hundreds of fans at Tokyo’s Haneda airport lined up 10 deep and hoping to catch a glimpse of Shohei Ohtani as he arrived in ...

Although Yorkshire remains prolific in producing Olympic champions - the Brownlees, Ennis, Adams, Clancy to name just a few - they remain enough of a rare breed that when the light fades out it ...

Objective To analyse injuries and illnesses during the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Summer Games ... The highest incidence of injury (per participant) was noted in boxing (13.8%; n=40), sport climbing (12.5%; ...