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By Mitch Phillips TOKYO (Reuters) - Another 400m hurdles world record was swatted aside on Wednesday as Sydney McLaughlin broke her own mark to overhaul compatriot Dalilah Muhammad in another classic ...

By Omar Mohammed TOKYO (Reuters) - World champion Grant Holloway blazed to the quickest time in the 110 metres hurdles semi-finals on Wednesday, the American bursting out of the blocks and looking smo...

TOKYO (Reuters) - India's Neeraj Chopra, the 2018 Commonwealth champion, went through to the final of the men's javelin on Wednesday with his first throw of the morning at 86.65 metres, while world le...

By Karolos Grohmann TOKYO (Reuters) - The IOC is still waiting for a formal explanation from the Chinese National Olympic Committee as to why two gold medallists wore badges featuring the head of the ...

(Fixes typo in headline, no change to text) By Daniel Leussink TOKYO (Reuters) - The Netherlands will play in the women's Olympic hockey finals for a fifth straight time at the Tokyo Games after booki...

By Toshiki Hashimoto TOKYO (Reuters) - Hungary's Kolos Csizmadia set an Olympic record to seal direct qualification to the semi-finals of the men's kayak single 200 metres on Wednesday while Rio 2016 ...

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron will on Wednesday seek to raise more than $350 million in aid for Lebanon at a donors' conference marking the anniversary of the Beirut port blast, a...

TOKYO (Reuters) - American Sydney McLaughlin broke her own 400 metres hurdles world record to win the gold medal in 51.46 seconds at the Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday. The 21-year-old stuttered on the p...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo Olympics organisers on Wednesday reported 29 new Games-related COVID-19 cases, including four athletes. Three of the four infected athletes are in the Greek artistic swimming t...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian side Fluminense beat Cerro Porteno 1-0 on Tuesday to move into the quarter-finals of the Copa Libertadores and ensure that for the first time in the tournament's h...