Swimmer will face a strong challenge from Vivian Kong, who in Paris became the first female fencer to win gold for Hong Kong.

German great Malaika Mihambo won a first long jump competition with a take-off zone rather than the traditional board at an ...

Swiss Franjo von Allmen is the youngest man to win the downhill at the World Alpine Skiing Championships in 36 years. Von ...

Reaching the majors is an accomplishment in itself. Remaining there isn’t easy. Many players come to a crossroads when things ...

Miguel Rojas gladly gave up his No. 11 to Roki Sasaki and went back to 72, his jersey as a Los Angeles Dodgers rookie in 2014. “I'm not asking for anything. I have everything that I want in life,” the ...

Full crowds in Tokyo for this year's World Athletics Championships can make up for fans being locked out of the city's ...

When Yaroslava Mahuchikh emerges for her season opener on Thursday she will embark on another four-year Olympic cycle, with a ...

This post may contain affiliate links. Read our disclosure. A city that truly never sleeps, Tokyo is the largest city in the world when measured by urban area and total population. The metropolitan ...

Designer of the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 2025 logo, Ryo Nakagawa, poses during the logo unveiling event at Japan National Stadium on May 13, 2024. Photo by Yuichi Yamazaki. This year's ...

The educational projects “Catching and Collecting Forest,” “Athletics Forest,” and “Future Park” in the new area will feature over 20 artworks TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new large-scale ...

Kate French won modern pentathlon gold at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 Modern pentathlete Kate French, who won Olympic gold at the Tokyo Games, has announced her retirement from the sport.

But coming off an extended season that started last March and ran through to late October, and with an abbreviated offseason due to another early start (the Dodgers open in March in Tokyo), the ...