As part of NBC’s “Clear the Shelters” pet adoption drive, we asked Team USA to share their own “tails” of pet adoption and how these animals have impacted their lives.

These Olympians are fleet of foot, shockingly flexible and fearless on the high bar. It helps that they’re all teeny tiny cats. As the opening ceremony in Rio nears, about 90 furry paw-thletes over at the Hallmark Channel are ready for some action of their own in the very first Kitten Summer Games, to coincide with the start of the...

The Tokyo Olympics open in five months on July 24

The Asian Football Confederation says China’s scheduled home match against South Korea in the final round of qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics will be held in Sydney due to concern over the China virus.

Tokyo Olympic organizers say a test event scheduled for later this month is being revamped because of the fear of the spreading virus from China.

A Japanese virologist says if the Tokyo Olympics were tomorrow the games probably couldn’t be held because of the fast-spreading coronavirus from Wuhan, China.

Salt Lake City may shift its focus to bidding for the 2034 Winter Olympics rather than the Games four years earlier following the announcement that Sapporo, Japan, will bid for 2030.

Tokyo Olympic organizers are trying to shoot down rumors that this year’s 2020 Games might be canceled or postponed because of the spread of a new virus

With six months to go until the summer games, the city of Tokyo lit up the Olympic rings and celebrated the occasion with fireworks. 

The 2020 Olympic Games are almost here. Here are some new events you can expect to see at the Tokyo games.

The 2020 Olympic Games are almost here. Here are some new events you can expect to see at the Tokyo games.

Olympic qualifying games for the women’s soccer tournament were moved Wednesday from Wuhan, China, because of an outbreak of a viral illness.

Nine years after “Fukushima” became synonymous with nuclear disaster, the area will help kick off the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo by hosting the opening ceremony’s torch relay near its devastated power plant.

Tokyo Olympic athletes beware — particularly larger ones. The bed frames in the Athletes Village at this year’s Olympics will be made of cardboard. Sturdy cardboard.

Tokyo Olympic organizers said Friday they are spending 1.35 trillion Japanese yen — about $12.6 billion — to stage next year’s games. Organizers said the expenditure is unchanged from a year ago, although robust sponsorship and ticket sales have generated a contingency fund of an extra $300 million.

U.S. Olympic figure skater Maia Shibutani recently underwent surgery to remove a tumor found on her kidney. The 25-year-old athlete shared the news via Instagram on Monday. “It’s been a really tough week,” Shibutani wrote alongside a photo of herself in a hospital bed.

The current editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is disputing an upcoming film’s depiction of the newspaper’s reporting and decision-making processes surrounding the fatal 1996 Olympic park bombing. Editor Kevin Riley has written an op-ed taking particular issue with the portrayal of reporter Kathy Scruggs. A lawyer for the paper has demanded a public statement and a “prominent disclaimer”...

Once a year, the Hartford Wolf Pack spends the morning off the ice and in the bowling alley to support Special Olympics Connecticut.

The Tokyo Olympics organizing committee said Friday opera legend Placido Domingo has said he won’t perform at pre-Olympics cultural events in Japan. The committee said in a statement that Domingo has decided not to perform at an event scheduled for April that was meant to bring together opera and traditional Japanese Kabuki theater and officials accepted his decision.

Ryan Podann, Anthony Shonti and Justin Mazza are three of the most accomplished members of the Special Olympics Connecticut Unified Long Distance Running Team.