The Chinese diving team are red-hot favourites to claim the first gold medal of the diving competition at the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games tomorrow, when the country will bid for a 15th-straight major title in the women's synchronised three metres springboard event.
The United States meet France on Sunday as they begin the defence of the men’s basketball title at Tokyo 2020 here, a gold medal that, more than any other, has been dominated by them.
Surfing is set to make its Olympic debut at Tokyo 2020 tomorrow with the men's and women's shortboard events.
After three difficult days and three stalemates, world number one Magnus Carlsen is through to the fifth round of the Chess World Cup in Sochi, following an eventual victory over Polish 33rd seed Radosław Wojtaszek.
Marcela Vašínová of the Czech Republic and Poland's Peter Fraňo were the winners on the fourth leg of the World Mountain Running Association (WMRA) Mountain Running World Cup, triumphing on the mammoth Tatra SkyMarathon in Kościelisko.
Georgia and Russia both won two gold medals in the Greco-Roman category on the sixth day of the World Cadet Wrestling Championships in Budapest.
Spain's Sergio Moya now tops the Global Champions Tour (GCT) standings following a win at the latest CSI5* Grand Prix in Berlin, snatching the lead from Edwina Tops-Alexander of Australia.
Algerian judoka Fethi Nourine and his coach Amar Benikhlef have withdrawn from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics to avoid the possibility of meeting an Israeli opponent.
A member of the Japanese Government’s advisory panel on COVID-19 has accused Olympic Games organisers of failing to minimise the risks posed by coronavirus on the event and claimed there are "holes" in the regulations they have implemented here.
The world has reacted to the Opening Ceremony which began the Olympic Games a year late here under the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic.
About 100 of the United States’ 613-strong team for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics here are unvaccinated against coronavirus, it has been revealed.
The Olympic Flame has reached its permanent resting place for the remainder of the Olympic fortnight at Tokyo's waterfront area.
Naohisa Takato delivered the first gold medal of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games for host nation Japan on the first night of judo finals here.
World champion Panipak Wongpattanakit earned a dramatic late victory over Spanish teenager Adriana Cerezo to claim the women’s under-49 kilogram Olympic taekwondo title here today.
Hungary’s Áron Szilágyi claimed his third Olympic men's sabre individual title in succession with a stunning 15-7 victory over Italy’s Luigi Samele at the Tokyo 2020 Games here, while China’s Sun Yiwen triumphed in a dramatic women's épée individual final.
Denver were awarded the 1976 Winter Olympic Games ahead of Sion in Switzerland, Tempere in Finland and Vancouver in Canada at the International Olympic Committee Session in 1970. But in a Colorado referendum in November 1972, voters rejected funding for the event. It is the only time a city has been awarded the Olympics but pulled out. The IOC then offered the Games to Whistler in Canada, but they too declined owing to a change of Government following elections. Salt Lake City offered to host the Games, but the IOC, still reeling from the Denver rejection, declined and selected Innsbruck, the 1964 host city, as a replacement.
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The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games are not the first to be impacted by quarantine rules. Philip Barker tells the story of the Melbourne 1956 Games, where the equestrian events were held in Stockholm.
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