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By Philip O'Connor ENOSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - Matt Wearns's decision as a promising young athlete to choose sailing over Australian Rules football paid off handsomely at the Enoshima Yachting Harbour...

Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta claimed the bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday after posting a 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-3 victory over top-seeded Serbian Novak Djokovic. The sixth-seeded Carreno Busta...

By Richa Naidu TOKYO (Reuters) - As a boy in Guatemala, Kevin Cordon had one ambition -- to make it to the Olympics. When he qualified for the 2008 Beijing Games, he got the five Olympic Rings tattooe...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia reported 22,804 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, including 2,484 in Moscow, taking the official national tally since the pandemic began to 6,288,677. The government coronavirus ...

By Yuka Obayashi TOKYO (Reuters) - Defending Olympic champions Brazil edged France in a marathon five-set battle at the Ariake Arena on Sunday to finish second in Pool B in the men's volleyball prelim...

PARIS (Reuters) - New car registrations in France plummeted by about 35% in July from the same period a year ago, according to data issued by country's carmakers lobby CCFA-PFA late on Saturday. Regis...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom savoured an Olympic 50m freestyle silver medal on Sunday after a fightback from injury that she said had been the challenge of her life. The 27-year-old world...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran said on Sunday it was not involved in an attack on an Israeli-managed petroleum product tanker off the coast of Oman, referring to an incident last week that killed two and whic...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Czech Republic's Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova beat Switzerland's Belinda Bencic and Viktorija Golubic 7-5 6-1 in the women's doubles tennis final in Tokyo on Sunday to c...

Wander Franco hit a tiebreaking RBI triple in the sixth inning, Ji-Man Choi and Francisco Mejia each had two-run homers and the Tampa Bay Rays held off the visiting Boston Red Sox for a 9-5 win on Sat...