Algeria’s super-heavyweight medal contender Walid Bidani has been forced out of tomorrow's competition after testing positive for COVID-19.

Dalil Scalli, the President of the African Sambo Confederation, is confident that the combat sport will feature at the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles after gaining full recognition from the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Three reigning world champions added Olympic gold to their collections on the second night of wrestling finals at Tokyo 2020.

Paris 2024 and Milan Cortina 2026 have signed a collaboration agreement they have described as "ambitious" - with the aim of delivering more "sustainable, innovative and spectacular" Olympics.

Armand Duplantis, 21, and 19-year-old Athing Mu became two of the youngest Olympic athletics champions with respective victories in the men’s pole vault and women’s 800 metres here.

South Korea's Park Inbee is aiming to defend her Olympic crown and will play with the two other Rio 2016 medallists when the women's golf competition gets underway here at the Tokyo 2020.

Akbar Djuraev of Uzbekistan denied favourite and world record holder Simon Martirosyan to claim a sensational victory in the men’s 109 kilograms category at the Tokyo International Forum.

Across the first nine days of action, over 100 million people have watched Discovery's Tokyo 2020 Olympics coverage in Europe, excluding Russia, while a further 175 million have watched via Discovery's sublicense agreements with partner free-to-air broadcasters.

Daiki Hashimoto cemented his status as the star of Japanese gymnastics by adding the horizontal bar title to his all-around crown as China secured another two gymnastic gold medals at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games here tonight.

Cuba's Roniel Iglesias has won men’s welterweight boxing gold at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics after defeating Britain’s Anthony McCormack.

For the returning Simone Biles, her result in the balance beam final at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games here tonight was largely immaterial.

China’s Xie Siyi has said he kept thinking of the words of his late coach as he claimed an emotional gold medal in the 3m springboard at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics here.

Woodkid, one of France's most popular artists, has added a special date to his international tour in August to commemorate the handover ceremony from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games to Paris 2024.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has joined Tokyo 2020 President Seiko Hashimoto to sign commemorative plaques placed on the Tokyo Recovery Monuments to remember the devastation caused by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake in Miyagi, Iwate and Fukushima.