Sunisa Lee, the Olympic all-around women’s artistic gymnastics champion, will end her United States college career next year to concentrate on defenting her title at Paris 2024, she has announced.

Britain's Chijindu Ujah has been banned for 22 months for doping, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has confirmed.

Olympic boxing champion Sena Irie of Japan has decided to step away from the sport to focus on academic research.

Japanese authorities have launched an investigation into payments made by a sponsor to a member of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Organising Committee.

The final bill for the re-arranged 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo has been revealed today at ¥1,423.8 billion (£8.51 billion/$10.45 billion/€9.91 billion).

Eliud Kipchoge will make his competitive return at this year's Tokyo Marathon on March 6, in the same country where he last year won a second Olympic gold medal.

Tokyo 2020 President Seiko Hashimoto has been named as the winner of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Women and Sport Awards world prize, with the organisation highlighting her efforts to push against conservative attitudes towards women.

Achieving a world record at the Olympic Games is the ultimate track and field achievement, but as the athletics programme gets underway tomorrow morning at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, a little short of five years since the last one in Rio de Janeiro, it is prospective personal rivalries that command attention.

Stoked. I've missed the word at the Summer Olympics. Heard it many a time at the Winter Games, of course, when that cradle of sports began to take in babes-in-arms, starting with snowboarding last time an Olympic carnival played out in this country, at Nagano 1998.

A doping control guide - which aims to "dispel misconceptions" over testing Para-athletes - has been launched by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) prior to the start of next month's Games here. 

The Refugee Olympic Team has completed a two-day training camp in Qatar as they prepare to fly out to compete at Tokyo 2020 here.

The Olympic medal chances of athletes from around the world have changed dramatically after China decided not to select Rio 2016 gold medallist Deng Wei, its leading female athlete in the Tokyo 2020 rankings.

Israel has named an expanded roster of 44 players for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, which has been submitted to the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC).

Bristol Bears star Semi Radradra has "a desire" to play at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, according to Fijian rugby sevens head coach Gareth Baber.

Beijing 2022 organisers, who will mark a year to go until their Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games are due get underway on Thursday (February 4), will take their cue from COVID-19 measures that Tokyo 2020 plans to deploy at the postponed Summer event.