Olympian Rayssa Leal and Paralympian Holly Robinson - the first fan-voted winners of the Visa Award - have respectively chosen Social Skate and Ronald McDonald House to each receive $50,000 (£36,694/€43,268).

Australian basketball star Liz Cambage is to appear at a private hearing as the investigation into an incident during a Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games warm-up match against Nigeria approaches its conclusion.

A study by the Global Sports Week (GSW) Factory has indicated that the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games was highly successful with Generation Z but the Paralympics still has some catching up to do.

Six members of Tonga's team from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games remain "in good spirits" despite still being stranded in New Zealand because of COVID-19 travel restrictions, and are expected to fly home on October 20.

Fumio Kishida has called a snap election several weeks earlier than planned after being formally elected Japan's Prime Minister, as he targets securing a new mandate to deal with issues including the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tokyo 2020 will act as a benchmark for how to stage an Olympic Games during a global pandemic as Beijing 2022 is set to look for support from the Japanese organisers.

American Cat Osterman has retired from softball for the second time after winning her third Olympic medal with a silver at this summer's Tokyo 2020 Games.

Technology company and The Olympic Partner sponsor Atos supported the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games by "orchestrating and securing all the IT [information technology] systems behind the event", despite using little more than half as many servers and bringing half the number of staff to the Japanese capital as it did Rio 2016.

Two coaches - who were stripped of their Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games accreditation for their involvement in allegedly forcing Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya to board a flight home to Minsk - are under investigation by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU).

Tokyo 2020 has revealed that 25 people were hospitalised after contracting COVID-19 during the Olympic Games - five times the original figure reported by officials.

Tokyo 2020 chief executive Toshirō Mutō has said he expects the official cost of the delayed Olympic and Paralympic Games to be revealed early next year.

Namibia's Olympic silver medallist Christine Mboma and her compatriot Beatrice Masilingi have spoken about their bans from the 400-metre event at Tokyo 2020, describing it as "a very bad experience", "quite disturbing" and "hard to understand."

Fumio Kishida is set to replace Yoshihide Suga as Prime Minister of Japan after winning the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) Presidential election.

The Japanese Government has stated there were no signs of a cyber-attacks during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.