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By Martyn Herman TOKYO (Reuters) - Britain's Geraint Thomas said he "must have done something wrong in a previous life" after his hopes of a first Olympic road race medal were wiped out by yet another...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian electoral authorities on Saturday barred a well-known Communist Party candidate from running in September's parliamentary election, the latest high-profile opposition figure...

CHIBA, Japan (Reuters) - Thailand's Panipak Wongpattanakit, the bronze medallist in Rio five years ago, beat Spanish teenager Adriana Cerezo Iglesias to win the gold medal for women's taekwondo in the...

By Martyn Herman TOKYO (Reuters) - A brutally tough Olympic road race course wore down most of the 130 riders who set off from Musashinonomori Park in stifling heat on Saturday but not gold medallist ...

HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam's health ministry reported 7,968 coronavirus infections on Saturday, a record daily increase and up from Friday's record of 7,307. More than two-thirds of the cases are in Ho...

TOKYO (Reuters) - World champions the United States began their quest for a third straight Olympic gold medal in women's water polo by storming into the record books with a 25-4 humbling of hosts Japa...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Hungarian Aron Szilagyi, 31, won gold in the men's individual sabre fencing competition on Saturday, becoming the first man ever to win three gold fencing medals in an individual dis...

By Sudipto Ganguly and Rozanna Latiff TOKYO (Reuters) - A day after Naomi Osaka became the first tennis player to light an Olympic cauldron during the opening ceremony, Novak Djokovic said the global ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - China's Sun Yiwen won the women's individual epee fencing gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Ana Maria Popescu of Romania took silver and Katrina Lehis of Estonia claimed bronze....

By Ju-min Park TOKYO (Reuters) - Wherever there is a bow and arrow at the Tokyo Olympics, a South Korean won't be far away. On top of the coaches who guide the medal-hogging national team, veteran Sou...