International Olympic Committee (IOC) medical and scientific director Richard Budgett has acknowledged current guidelines around transgender athletes are no longer fit for purpose, with the organisation set to publish an updated framework to guide International Federations in devising their own rules.

Athleten Deutschland has slammed the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for allowing athletes to spend their quarantine period in "prison-like conditions" at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics here.

Nigerian sprinter Blessing Okagbare has been provisionally suspended and will miss the remainder of Tokyo 2020 after testing positive for human growth hormone.

An anti-doping agreement has been concluded prior to next month’s Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, it has been confirmed.

Britain claimed history by winning the first Olympic gold medal in mixed relay triathlon.

Katie Ledecky earned her third consecutive women’s 800 metres freestyle Olympic gold as compatriot Caeleb Dressel lowered his own men’s 100 metres butterfly world record on the penultimate day of Tokyo 2020 swimming finals here today.

American star Simone Biles has withdrawn from tomorrow's vault and uneven bars finals at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games as she continues to prioritise her mental health.

FIFA has unveiled a new temporary Olympics exhibition at their museum in Zürich, Switzerland to celebrate Tokyo 2020.

It will be some time before the full picture on Tokyo 2020 global viewing figures emerges, but early indications suggest patterns are in line with what you might expect from an event taking place in the Asian time-zone, in an increasingly fragmented, technology-led media market.

Ryan Murphy of the United States, who won swimming silver in today’s men’s 200 metres backstroke final behind Evgeny Rylov of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), told a media conference that he could not be sure the race was clean.

Three members of the Trinidad and Tobago Team (Team TTO) at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics have tested positive for COVID-19 and have been transferred to the approved isolation hotel facility to commence mandatory quarantine.

Tokyo has reported a record number of COVID-19 cases for the third straight day as Japan's total swelled to beyond 10,000 for the first time.

Gunilla Lindberg, the secretary general of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC), has used the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games as an opportunity to meet with several National Olympic Committees (NOCs) this week.

Selemon Barega of Ethiopia won the first athletics gold of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the men's 10,000 metres, here tonight after outsmarting the two fancied Ugandan runners, world champion and world record holder Joshua Cheptegei and Jacob Kiplimo.