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(Refiles to correct missing letter in first par) By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese judokas achieved a record gold medal rush for the host country at the Tokyo Games, but it was France's ...

By Chris Gallagher and Lucien Libert SAPPORO, Japan (Reuters) - Spectators came out to cheer on the runners in the Olympic women's marathon on Saturday, ignoring calls by organisers to stay home and a...

TOKYO (Reuters) - China's Cao Yuan advanced to the men's 10 metre platform diving finals at the 2020 Olympic Games on Saturday, as he looks to earn a seventh diving gold for his country in Tokyo. Cao,...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Hungary won the gold medal in the women's kayak four 500 metres competition at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday. Belarus took the silver medal, while Poland claimed the bronze. (Report...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's exports and imports grew at a slower-than-expected pace in July following outbreaks of COVID-19 cases in eastern and southern Chinese provinces, the country's main export h...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Qatar's Cherif Younousse and Ahmed Tijan won the bronze medal on Saturday in the men's beach volleyball in Tokyo, defeating Latvia's Martins Plavins and Edgars Tocs to get the countr...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Norway's Christian Sorum and Anders Mol won the gold medal in the men's beach volleyball by defeating Russian Olympic Committee's (ROC) Viacheslav Krasilnikov and Oleg Stoyanovskiy i...

By Chris Gallagher SAPPORO, Japan (Reuters) - Molly Seidel may have been competing in just her third marathon but the American relished the role of disruptor as she ran alongside the sport's elite and...

By Toshiki Hashimoto (Reuters) - Brazil's Isaquias Queiroz dos Santos dominated the Olympic men's canoe single 1,000 metres event to win the gold medal at the Sea Forest Waterway on Saturday after def...

By Gabrielle Ttrault-Farber and Mitch Phillips WARSAW/TOKYO (Reuters) - Olympic sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya travelled thousands of miles because she desperately did not want to run 400 metres. Th...