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By Martyn Herman IZU, Japan (Reuters) - When coach Frenchman Benoit Vetu began working for the Japanese Cycling Federation five years ago his brief was simple -- deliver a medal in keirin at the Tokyo...

By Lefteris Papadimas ATHENS (Reuters) - Yorgos Papaioannou spent four hours using a garden hose to try to save his newly-built home from a blazing wildfire, until police patrolling his suburb north o...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The United States won its 16th Olympic gold https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/basketball-us-beat-france-win-16th-mens-gold-2021-08-07 medal in men's basketball on Saturday, av...

(Reuters) -India has approved Johnson & Johnson's single-dose COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use on Saturday, health minister Mansukh Mandaviya said in a tweet. The pharmaceutical giant had applied fo...

MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines' health ministry recorded on Saturday 11,021 new coronavirus cases, the highest single-day case increase in almost four months, and 162 additional deaths. In a bulle...

By Toshiki Hashimoto TOKYO (Reuters) - Few athletes in Tokyo will have had as tough a childhood as Isaquias Queiroz dos Santos but the Brazilian said his positive approach to life was key in overcomin...

By Mayu Sakoda TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan, once a synchronised swimming star that nearly always secured a place on the Olympic podium, is this year struggling to hang onto the team bronze it won in Rio 2...

By Ju-min Park KAWAGOE, Japan (Reuters) - New Zealand's Lydia Ko became the first woman to claim multiple Olympic golf medals with her bronze at the Tokyo Games on Saturday and won hearts in Japan for...

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland will do away with a system for disciplining judges which the EU's top court has ruled violates EU rules, the head of the country's ruling party told the state news agency PAP...

By Alexandros Avramidis and Giorgos Moutafis ATHENS (Reuters) - Flames swept through a residential town outside Athens overnight as wildfires burned across Greece for a fifth day on Saturday, and hund...