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Tokyo pitched itself as “a safe pair of hands” when it was awarded the Olympics 7 1/2 years ago.

Members of the Denver Broncos, Seattle Seahawks and Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers have become the first to say they won’t participate in their team’s in-person voluntary offseason programs.

Kyoko Ishikawa was a back-packing Japanese student in Barcelona in 1992 when she says a “miracle happened.”

Cleveland Indians first baseman Yu Chang shared some racist tweets he received after making a costly error in Monday night’s game in Chicago

Mike Tirico won’t be anchoring NBC’s primetime coverage of the Tokyo Olympics from the usual confines of a studio inside the International Broadcast Center.

UConn women’s basketball assistant coach Shea Ralph has been named the head coach of the Vanderbilt University women’s basketball team. Ralph has spent the last 13 seasons as an assistant head coach for the Huskies. “I would like to congratulate Shea on being named the head coach at Vanderbilt University,” head coach Geno Au...

Four-time major champion Brooks Koepka will be part of the field at the 2021 Travelers Championship, it was announced Tuesday. This will be Koepka’s fifth appearance in Cromwell at TPC River Highlands “Brooks has put together a remarkable list of accomplishments, with many of them coming in golf’s biggest events,” said Travelers Championship ...

At 6 feet, 7 inches tall and 315 pounds, the athlete bench presses 500 pounds but says his progress in finding mental focus has given him a new edge.

The Team USA attacker says his grandmother is waiting in Japan to see him play.

After earning bronze in the Rio Olympics, 42-year-old Kerri Walsh Jennings aims for her fourth gold in Tokyo with new partner Brooke Sweat. If she qualifies, she would be the oldest beach volleyball player ever to take an Olympic court.

Former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid has been charged with driving while intoxicated after a crash that critically injured a young girl

American athlete Nia Ali is running toward her second Olympic team, ready to prove she deserves to be there as a mother of two. “It’s not about proving other people wrong, but I like to try to prove myself right.”

USA Women’s basketball point guard Sue Bird has helped earn her team a gold medal in the last four Olympic Games. Tokyo will likely be her last attempt before she retires.