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TOKYO (Reuters) - The Tokyo Metropolitan Government reported 1,763 COVID-19 cases on Sunday, the third day since the Olympic Games began in the Japanese capital. Infections have been on the rise in re...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's total coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic surpasssed 1 million on Sunday after the country's health ministry reported a record 17,045 new coronavirus ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - South Korea won a ninth consecutive gold medal in the women's team archery event at the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday. The Russian Olympic Committee team won silver and Germany claimed br...

By Aaron Sheldrick TOKYO (Reuters) - Australia won the 4x100 women's freestyle relay Olympic gold for the third time in a row, beating their own world record by three seconds and helping take the stin...

By Ece Toksabay and Junko Fujita TOKYO (Reuters) - Andriantsitohaina brothers Eric and Tojonirina realised the first of their weightlifting dreams by competing together at the Tokyo Games and say they...

By Simon Evans TOKYO (Reuters) - No matter how many times Olympic athletes are told they should be proud of their silver medals, for many of them, second best can never be good enough. American Chase ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - China claimed its first diving gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday, keeping its winning streak in the sport rolling in the women's events. Aiming for a clean sweep of all eigh...

By Mari Saito TOKYO (Reuters) - For street skaters, run-ins with neighbours and security guards are annoyingly commonplace. In Japan, where Yuto Horigome won the first ever Olympic gold awarded in ska...

By Richa Naidu TOKYO (Reuters) - Egypt may not have a strong badminton team but its two female representatives at the Tokyo Games have plenty of moxie. Doha Hany, 23, is competing in three events: wom...

By Sudipto Ganguly TOKYO (Reuters) - Mandy Bujold won a lengthy fight outside the ring to punch her ticket to the Tokyo Olympics but the Canadian flyweight ultimately ran out of steam on Sunday, going...