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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...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has administered a total of 1.5387 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines as of July 24, data from the National Health Commission showed on Sunday. (Reporting by Sophie Yu and Do...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Naomi Osaka said she was feeling refreshed and ready to play, following a dominant 6-1 6-4 win over China's Zheng Saisai in the opening round of the Tokyo Games - her first victory s...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Slovenia's Benjamin Savsek led the men's Olympic canoe slalom after the first run at the sun-baked Kasai slalom centre on Sunday, with Germany's Ricarda Funk ahead in the women's kay...

By Sudipto Ganguly TOKYO (Reuters) - American Keyshawn Davis's dream of winning an Olympic gold, improbable till last month, was back on track on Sunday when the men's lightweight won his debut fight ...

By Chang-Ran Kim CHIBA, Japan (Reuters) - Top-ranked taekwondo champion Lee Dae-hoon lost in the first match of his final Olympics on Sunday, dashing South Korea's best hope for a gold medal in the na...

By Shiho Tanaka TOKYO (Reuters) - Mountain bike king Nino Schurter faces a formidable challenge to his Olympic crown from a couple of hungry young road warriors on Monday but says the Izu course gives...

By Mari Saito TOKYO (Reuters) - For much of Sunday's inaugural skateboarding competition at the Tokyo Games, the biggest challenge for top international skaters like Nyjah Huston was the intense heat ...