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By Junko Fujita TOKYO (Reuters) - Cameroonian Cyrille Tchatchet II was always unlikely to win a medal but the first weightlifter from the Refugee Olympic Team proved a big hit with the sparse crowd at...

By Yuka Obayashi TOKYO (Reuters) - The United States' hopes of winning a first Olympic gold medal in women's volleyball took a hit on Saturday when they lost ace spiker Jordan Thompson to injury in a ...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's health ministry reported 17,786 coronavirus cases on Saturday, a record number of infections. The total number of cases since the start of the pandemic rose to 1,11...

By Ju-min Park TOKYO (Reuters) -The world's top-ranked male archer Brady Ellison of the United States was knocked out in the quarter-finals of the Olympic individual event on Saturday, ending his ques...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Newly reported COVID-19 cases in Tokyo surged to a record high of 4,058 on Saturday, the metropolitan government announced. (Reporting by Makiko Yamazaki; Editing by Raju Gopalakrish...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan and France advanced to the final of the first mixed judo team event at the Olympics on Saturday, with three male and three female judokas joining forces for a final showdown at...

By Aaron Sheldrick TOKYO (Reuters) - Hungarian Kristof Milak has warned American Caeleb Dressel that he will catch him in the 100m butterfly and dominate the event in both distances. Milak, the 200m w...

By Toshiki Hashimoto KAWAGOE, Japan (Reuters) -A slow-burning Olympic golf tournament roared to life on Saturday as American Xander Schauffele fought off attacks on all fronts to cling to a one-shot l...

By Chang-Ran Kim TOKYO (Reuters) - Reigning world champion Nesthy Petecio of the Philippines defeated Italian Irma Testa in the featherweight boxing semi-final on Saturday to keep her in the contest f...

ENOSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - Kiran Badloe of the Netherlands won the gold medal in the men's RS:X windsurfing on Saturday. Thomas Goyard of France finished in second place in the overall table to take ...