The Olympics are getting really down with the kids with this one. Skateboarding is rolling into Tokyo 2020 with two events, Park and Street. Image caption, The Street Skateboarding event is held ...

Masks will be mandated at nearly all times outside of competition, and social distancing ... at venues in Tokyo or any other areas of the country currently under new coronavirus restrictions. This ...

Simone Biles’ decision to withdraw from the team and individual all-around competitions at the Tokyo Olympics has opened eyes to the pressures behind the gold. “It’s been a long week ...

Tokyo’s 2020 Summer Olympics experienced similar problems even before the ... To its credit, the IOC recognizes the financial and social burdens of competing for and hosting the Olympics and ...

Fewer and fewer cities want to host the Olympics. That should tell the IOC something. Katie Ledecky entered the Tokyo Olympics with outsized expectations and demonstrated how much faster she is ...

In December 2020, the Tokyo Olympics organisers announced that the cost had ballooned to US$15.4 billion – double its original estimate. Japanese economist Takahide Kiuchi from the Nomura ...

There were a number of incredible moments from the Tokyo Olympics. From Caeleb Dressel dominating in the pool to the U.S. women winning their seventh-straight basketball gold medal, the storylines ...

The sum of $3 billion in sponsorships for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo is thrice more than the previous record. The London games in 2012 reportedly clocked $1.1 billion in corporate sponsorships.

So, the head of Tachikawa Sogo Hospital, in Tokyo’s Tachikawa, posted messages on his windows, saying enough is enough. “Medical capacity has reached its limits. Stop the Olympics!” ...