TOKYO 2020

In the midst of rising coronavirus anxieties, Japan opts for a moment of national sports pride.

When European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen was at a loss for words to capture the true spirit of Europe's young, she introduced a special guest of honor at her State of the Union address.

The two-person team arrived in Tokyo a week late, after the crisis in Afghanistan threatened to bar them from leaving their home country.

The Paralympics got underway in Tokyo this past week, and much like the Olympics that were held last month, it didn’t take long for athletes to produce special moments that inspired the world.

A Chilean Paralympian who is in a wheelchair became the latest in a series of diversifying Barbie dolls.

The Paralympics have started in Tokyo, and it’s easy to spot sports that are both in Paralympics and Olympics, such as basketball, volleyball, weightlifting, soccer, equestrian and cycling, to name just a few, and with various adaptions.

This is one silver medal that turned out to be arguably more valuable than all the gold medals combined at the recent Tokyo Olympics.

All fans will be barred from the Paralympics because of the coronavirus pandemic just as they were from the recently-completed Tokyo Olympics.

Jamaican Olympic hurdler Hansle Parchment took the wrong bus and likely would have missed his semifinal if not for a volunteer who paid his taxi fare. He went back to repay her after winning gold.

Here’s a breakdown of what certain countries pay athletes when they win a medal in the Summer Olympics, according to Forbes.

With the flame extinguished in Tokyo this past weekend, the torch for the Summer Olympics -- seeing as the Winter Games in Beijing are just six months away -- has been passed to Paris, the host of the 2024 Summer Games.

While our women of Team USA crushed it on their way to a gold medal in volleyball there was a Houston area resident playing an unseen but critical role at the Ariake Arena.

The Tokyo 2020 Summer Games drew Sunday to an end, an Olympics that began as a bet countering controversy and considerable fear — could they come off — and closed with the bet won. The Games happened. And for 16 days, just as it should be, the athletes of the world commanded center stage.

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For Cypress native Cammile Adams swimming in the Olympic games was a lifelong dream come true. Adams competed for Team USA London in 2012 and then as co-captain in Rio in 2016. The memories remain strong.

Someone cue up the Olympic theme song stat!

The United States hasn’t hosted any Olympic Games since 2002, when Salt Lake City welcomed the world to the Winter Olympics, but man, there have certainly been some cities that have tried.

Ferhat Arican, who took Turkey's first ever medal in gymnastics with a bronze at Tokyo 2020, says his sport is a bit like clearing landmines. And he should know.

The Olympic Games in Tokyo also have brought together athletes of a wide arrange of ages – teens and pre-teens, middle aged veterans in their late 30s and 40s and at least one genuine senior citizen.

On several street corners around the Tokyo Olympic media press center and at several venues, you find people shooting pictures. Not of the athletes or journalists, but of the buses they ride in.

Spain maintains a perfect water polo record in an emphatic 12-8 victory against Team USA.

First came news that one athlete had tested positive; three more quickly followed. Now the whole team is being moved to a separate hotel.

The competition has produced inspiring moments that have gotten the world’s attention and embodied the Olympic spirit.

Well, that was as fast as Caeleb Dressel swimming the 50-meter freestyle.

Simone Biles unexpectedly announced her withdrawal from Tuesday’s Olympic women’s gymnastics team competition to prioritize her mental health.

Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina is filled with a mixed sense of wonder and trepidation when she watches the gravity-defying and often treacherous routines of Simone Biles as the American set out to break her Olympic gold-medal record.

The track and field competition has begun at the Tokyo Olympics, and we have our eyes on several Houston-area athletes.

It will nearly impossible for Pita Taufatofua to outlast his original claim to fame as “the shirtless flag bearer,” which made him a legend on social media.

As news rolled out that athletes heading to the Tokyo Olympics would be provided with cardboard beds and plastic mattresses, rumors emerged the beds were designed to prevent athletes from having sex.

Watch some of the wet and wild wipeouts from surfing's debut at the Tokyo Olympic Games.

World-class athletes from all over the globe are in Tokyo to win medals, but they’re also there to give us behind-the-scenes peeks at the Olympics, in viral TikTok videos.

Incoming University of Texas freshman Lydia Jacoby has earned one of the latest gold medals for Team USA. The 17-year-old took first place in a nail-biting women’s 100-meter breaststroke. It was another thrilling day in Tokyo as Team USA racks up more medals. The team is pressing to make it to the podium in every sport and in gymnastics Spring’s Simone Biles and the team is looking to re-establish dominance.

It was the portion of the Opening Ceremony that many were talking about, and no, it wasn’t the lighting of the torch.

The United States has won a medal in this race in every games it has competed in since 1912, claiming bronze in Tokyo.

Italy's Vito Dell'Aquila and Thailand's Panipak Wongpattanakit wom the first taekwondo gold medals at Tokyo 2020 on Sunday in the men's -58kg and the women's -49kg events, respectively.

The Olympic Games are underway.

Svetlana Gomboeva collapsed as she checked her final scores and required assistance from staff and teammates.

Tennis star Naomi Osaka has lit the cauldron at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Games, ending the flame’s long journey from Greece to these delayed Olympics.

The 1964 Tokyo Olympics showcased Japan’s resiliency and reemergence.

TOKYO (AP) — The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee fired the director of the opening...

The United States women's soccer team lost for the first time in nearly 50 matches and it's come at a bad time. What do they need to keep their medal hopes in tact?

Just days before the Games' opening ceremony, more athletes have tested positive for Covid.

There are three days to go until the official start of the Olympics, and Tokyo 2020 CEO Toshiro Muto is not ruling out a last-minute cancellation of the games amid the rising number of COVID-19 cases.

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga says the world needs to see that Japan can stage a safe Olympics.

Toyota won’t be airing any Olympic-themed advertisements on Japanese television during the Tokyo Games despite being one of the IOC’s top corporate sponsors.

Toyota won’t be airing any Olympic-themed advertisements on Japanese television during the Tokyo Games despite being one of the IOC’s top corporate sponsors. The extraordinary decision by the country’s top automaker underlines how polarizing the Games have become in Japan as COVID-19 infections rise ahead of Friday’s opening ceremony. “There are many issues with these Games that are proving difficult to be understood,” Toyota Chief Communications Officer Jun Nagata told reporters Monday.

Two South African soccer players have become the first athletes inside the Olympic Village to test positive for COVID-19.

Fans will be banned from the Tokyo area’s stadiums and arenas when the Olympic Games begin in two weeks.

We lost a lot last summer due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and one of those things was the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Japanese medical experts warn that allowing domestic spectators will lead to a spike in Covid cases.

Restrictions in Tokyo and nine other areas will now not be lifted until a month before the Olympics.

Meet Sky Brown, a skateboarding prodigy who is on the verge of becoming one of the youngest athletes to ever compete at the Summer Olympics.

When the coronavirus pandemic forced Tokyo last year to delay the Summer Olympics and Paralympics to July 2021, organizers kept the Tokyo 2020 name, saying they wanted the event to be seen as a “light at the end of the tunnel.” Covid-19 is still spreading but the games appear to be going ahead, in what would be the biggest world event of the pandemic era. But they are almost certain to look like no other Olympics, with a bar on spectators from abroad and uncertainty as to whether even fans in Ja

The Olympic host nation continues to struggle with COVID-19 but is still scheduled to open its doors for the Summer Games.

Ginny Fuchs finally got the call on Wednesday that she's been waiting for - the one to let her know she is officially an Olympian headed to the Tokyo Olympics.

An anti-Olympics protester posed as a reporter and disrupted an IOC news conference, holding a banner or scarf that read "No Olympics in Tokyo 2020."

Tokyo and Japan’s second largest metropolitan area of Osaka are coming under emergency orders aimed at stemming surging cases of the coronavirus.

It’s no secret that the United States is the most decorated country when it comes to winning medals at the Summer Olympics, with the red, white and blue taking home more than 2,600 medals, the most of any country.

Tokyo Olympic organizers are again being forced to assure the world that the postponed games will open in just over three months despite surging COVID-19 cases in Japan.

The Tokyo Olympic torch relay will not run through the streets of Osaka prefecture next week because of rising COVID-19 cases.

The governor of Osaka prefecture said on Thursday that he wants to cancel the Olympic torch relay legs going through Osaka later this month. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Pool Photo via AP, File)TOKYO – The Tokyo Olympic torch relay ran into big trouble on Thursday when the governor of Osaka prefecture and the mayor of the city of Osaka asked that relay legs going through the city be canceled with the games opening in less than four months. “When I watch the torch relay elsewhere in Japan, people tend to gather and those places get crowded," Osaka Mayor Ichiro Matsui said Thursday. "It’s very unfortunate but I think we should call it off.”Osaka Governor Hirofumi Yoshimura echoed the mayor: "I think the torch relay through the middle of Osaka should be canceled.”Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga suggested on Thursday that the Osaka relay was off. AdThe torch relay is scheduled to arrive in Osaka prefecture on April 13 and will go through the city on April 14.

Seiko Hashimoto, center, President of the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, talks with Kyoko Raita, right, Tokyo 2020 Executive Board member and speaker for a presentation on the Olympic Charter and Gender Equality in Tokyo, Japan, Monday, March 22, 2021. Fujio Mitarai, Honorary President of Tokyo 2020, is at left. Hashimoto said they will take all possible COVID-19 countermeasures as the torch relay opens this Thursday from northeastern Fukushima prefecture. (Kimimasa Mayama/Pool Photo via AP)TOKYO – Volunteers from abroad will not be allowed into Japan for the postponed Tokyo Olympics, organizers said Monday. Japan's Kyodo news agency, quoting “sources close to the matter,” said around 500 overseas volunteers would be given exemptions to enter Japan.

Published: May 19, 2020, 2:41 am Updated: May 19, 2020, 4:45 amThe cover design of Number 1 Shimbun is seen in Tokyo, Tuesday, May 19, 2020. Tokyo Olympics officials are incensed that their games emblem has been used in the cover design of the local magazine that combines the logo with the novel coronavirus. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)TOKYO Tokyo Olympic officials are incensed that the games emblem has been used in the cover design of a local magazine that combines the logo with the coronavirus. "The design is clearly using the design of the Olympic emblem. We therefore consider it an infringement on our legally secured copyright to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic emblem.He said the organizing committee had not yet received a formal reply to its request.

Jordan Santana,15, is one of the first to compete in skateboarding in the Olympics and with Tokyo 2020 just around the corner, she is making waves.She is one of the youngest set to qualify for the team.Jordan is inspiring a whole new generation of skaters with her skill and has her sights set on the gold!