The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has warned it will take action in cases of "blatant" breaches of the COVID-19 rules in place at Tokyo 2020 after some athletes and officials paraded without masks during the Opening Ceremony here last night.

The Georgian National Olympic Committee’s (GNOC) failure to submit tennis players Oksana Kalashinikova and Ekaterine Gorgodze as entrees into the women’s doubles competition has cost them a place at Tokyo 2020, the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s (CAS) Ad Hoc Division has ruled here.

Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee, has praised the service provided to the Games by timekeepers Omega.

Hungary’s Áron Szilágyi will be aiming to complete a hat-trick of Olympic gold medals when the fencing competition starts here today.

The world has reacted to the Opening Ceremony which began the Olympic Games a year late here under the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic.

Hair braided in cherry red, the national colour of Japan, Naomi Osaka turned out to be the chosen one who lit the Flame here in Tokyo.

If you play weightlifting by numbers, there are many different ways to look at Tokyo 2020.

Australia has added a further 24 members to its athletics team for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, bringing its total squad size up to 36 athletes.

Britain’s Jade Jones and China’s Wu Jingyu will hope to complete a hat-trick of Olympic triumphs as taekwondo competition begins at Tokyo 2020.

The International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) has confirmed the Czech pair of Markéta Nausch-Sluková and Barbora Hermannová have been marked as "did not start" at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games after the former tested positive for COVID-19.

Newly crowned Tour de France champion Tadej Pogačar will start among the contenders for the men’s Olympic road race title in one of the first medal events of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

The Netherlands women's hockey team will be looking for Olympic redemption when they compete here at Tokyo 2020 as they aim to maintain their record of winning every major tournament since their shock loss in the final at Rio 2016.

Angry Japanese protesters gathered outside the Olympic Stadium here to vent their dismay over the staging of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics as the Games was officially opened today despite public opposition.