The Olympics are about dreams. Decades of falling asleep thinking about ... what? Slipping a piece of fabric that loops through a heavy gold disc around your neck? Entering the stadium with 10,000 ...

Led by Daichi Suzuki, Olympic gold medallist in the 100 metres backstroke at Seoul 1988 and now President of the Japan Swimming Federation, the Tokyo 2020 Athletes' Commission will consist of 21 ...

The 2020 Olympics are the first to host multiple transgender athletes in their games. Four athletes made history this year. Their time in Tokyo was underpinned by joy at their feats whilst being ...

If growing your roster were a Paralympic sport, this year's games would win gold. There are 4,403 athletes taking part in the international competition getting underway Tuesday, according to the ...

In the "playbook" for athletes and team officials, seen by insidethegames prior to its publication next week, competitors have been urged to "find other ways to celebrate" during the Games. How this ...

New sports, new medalists, new records While Biles and Felix may have both competed in their final Games, Tokyo 2020 also highlighted athletes at the start of their Olympic careers. Take skateboarding ...

The Chinese government awarded 26 female athletes the National March 8th Red-Banner Holders for their 2020 Tokyo Games performance. Meanwhile, China’s women’s table tennis Dream Team received the ...

Locker is a contributor for TIME. Locker is a contributor for TIME. Delayed a year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Tokyo Olympics were unlike any other. WIth its strict protocols, it was the ...

As a child, Hiroko Fujita watched the 1964 Tokyo Games on television. Now remembered as an event that brought live Olympics sports to the world, Fujita told CNN how thrilling it had been to witness ...

WAILUKU — War Memorial Stadium welcomed its typical crowd of residents training for high school sports, the next local marathon and general exercise Tuesday afternoon. However, among the small crowd ...

TOKYO (AP) — If athletes coming to Japan for the Tokyo Olympics needed a warning, they got it Tuesday as officials rolled out the third and final rendition of so-called Playbooks — the rulebooks ...