TOKYO OLYMPICS

Anthony Nesty has made more history with his selection to lead the U.S. men’s swimming team at the Paris Olympics.

The U.S. men's gymnastics program is fighting a war on multiple fronts as it tries to return to relevance.

Katie Moon and Nina Kennedy decided to split gold in the pole vault after finishing in a tie at world championships.

Sharon Lokedi is set to defend her New York City Marathon title in the race Nov. 5 as part of a loaded women’s professional field.

American freestyler Katie Ledecky has almost never gone home with anything other than a gold or silver medal in the Olympics or world championships dating from the 2012 London Games.

Tony Estanguet won gold medals for canoeing in the 2000, 2004 and 2012 Olympic Games.

USA Gymnastics has announced that Simone Biles plans to return to competition following a two-year hiatus at the U.S. Classic outside Chicago in August.

U.S. Olympic long jumper Tara Davis-Woodhall has served a one-month suspension and had her national indoor title stripped after testing positive earlier this year for the psychoactive compound found in marijuana.

American shot put medalist Raven Saunders has been suspended for 18 months for failing to show up for doping tests.

The International Olympic Committee has pushed back against the mayor of Paris by insisting there are no plans for "a Russian or Belarusian delegation” at the 2024 Games while also acknowledging that some athletes from those countries could be welcomed.

A Belarusian track coach who tried to force a sprinter to return home from the Tokyo Olympics after she was critical of the team has been charged with breaching the sport’s integrity standards.

A former Tokyo Olympic organizing committee board member and three people from a clothing company that was a surprise sponsor of the 2020 Games have been arrested on bribery suspicions.

Naomi Kawase had more material than she knew what to do with after being commissioned by the International Olympic Committee almost four years ago to make a documentary about the Tokyo Olympics.

The documentary film about the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics has had it first public viewing.

Mental health was the breakout star at the Tokyo Olympics.

Officially, the Beijing Olympics are taking place inside what organizers are calling “the enclosed compound activity area.”.

This year marked somewhat of a return to normalcy in the sports world.

It was quite a year in the sports world, was it not?

Cat Osterman, considered one of the best to ever play softball, has retired.

The Tokyo Paralympics have closed to end a saga that began eight years ago when the Japanese capital was named the host city by the International Olympic Committee.

The Sugar Land Skeeters are honoring local Olympic medalist Simone Manuel and former Skeeter Roger Clemens this Friday and Saturday, respectively, during their upcoming homestand.

The Paralympics have begun in the same empty National Stadium that hosted the opening and closing ceremonies of the Tokyo Olympics.

Japan’s “state of emergency” for curbing surging COVID-19 cases will continue through Sept. 12 rather than ending this month as originally planned.

She’s not only a fierce boxer who fought her way to the Tokyo Olympics, but she’s also a mental health advocate who recently shared her struggles with obsessive-compulsive disorder on the Apple TV+ documentary series “The Me You Can’t See.”

The Summer Olympics might be over, but these little kids were inspired by the athletes they saw on TV, and they're now ready to compete in future games.

A runaway success!

The Houston area was well represented at the Tokyo Olympics and contributed plenty to America's effort atop the overall medal count.

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.

Relive the best moments of rowing at the Tokyo Olympics.

Great Britain's Kate French and Joseph Choong won gold in a stadium that combined all of the aspects of the modern pentathlon,

Catch up on all the biggest records set at the Tokyo Olympic Games.

Lamont Marcell Jacobs and Bobby Finke won big, while Naomi Osaka and Novak Djokovic left Tokyo early. These are the best underdog stories from the Tokyo Olympic Games.

Serbia won its second consecutive water polo gold medal.

Look back at all the taekwondo action from the Tokyo Games.

Relive the best moments from diving at the Tokyo Olympics.

The United States fared well in a revamped Olympic shooting program that had a greater focus on gender equity.

Relive the best moments of soccer at the Tokyo Olympics.

Bulgaria won the group all-around rhythmic gymnastics final at the Tokyo Olympic Games and it wasn't particularly close.

Tijana Boscovic did a little bit of everything Sunday in leading Serbia's women's volleyball team to a never-in-doubt victory over South Korea to claim bronze at the Tokyo Olympics.

The stories behind the sports and the athletes are part of what makes the Olympics such a special competition around the world. That’s why KPRC 2 is proud to bring you the Olympic Zone presented by Living Designs Furniture. The popular magazine show, is a summary and showcase of up-to-the-minute Olympics content that sets the stage for the most important action every night of the Games. It can be seen Monday through Saturday during the Olympics on KPRC 2 at 6:30 p.m.

Track and field Day 10 includes the men's marathon.

Catch up on all the action from rhythmic gymnastics at the Tokyo Olympics.

The 22-year-old Linoy Ashram pulled off a stunning upset in a drama-filled final on Saturday.

A slew of Canoe/Kayak medals were awarded Saturday at the Tokyo Olympics, where Germany's men and Hungary's women claimed debut gold in the K-4 500-meter finals at Sea Forest Waterway.

Cao Yuan won China's seventh gold medal of the Tokyo Games in eight diving events.

Juan Francisco's two-run, opposite-field double snapped a tie game in the eighth inning, and Johan Miesas followed with a two-run homer to lead the Dominican Republic past South Korea on Saturday to claim the bronze medal of the baseball tournament at the Tokyo Olympics.

Setting up what's sure to be a thrilling final in men's 10-meter platform diving at the Tokyo Olympics, the Russian Olympic Committee's Viktor Minibaev earned the top spot in Saturday's semifinals.

The stories behind the sports and the athletes are part of what makes the Olympics such a special competition around the world. That’s why KPRC 2 is proud to bring you the Olympic Zone presented by Living Designs Furniture. The popular magazine show, is a summary and showcase of up-to-the-minute Olympics content that sets the stage for the most important action every night of the Games. It can be seen Monday through Saturday during the Olympics on KPRC 2 at 6:30 p.m.

Someone cue up the Olympic theme song stat!

South African equestrian Victoria Scott-Legendre almost did not make it to the Tokyo Olympics, not because of a lack of talent, but a lack of money.

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.

The Olympic Games is the field hockey’s biggest stage and a very strong field of national teams brought their best to Tokyo.

Great Britain's Kate French won the modern pentathlon Friday at the Tokyo Olympics.

Elaine Thompson-Herah completed Bolt-esque sprint triple at the Tokyo Olympics, winning gold with Jamaica on the women's 4x100m relay team.

Fifty-three years after Japan denied Mexico an Olympic bronze medal on home soil in Mexico City, Mexico did the same to Japan in Tokyo.

Poland's Aleksandra Miroslaw ascended the 49-foot speed wall in 6.84 seconds, setting a world record.

British cyclist Laura Kenny earned the sixth medal of her Olympic career Friday in the women's madison.

Nevin Harrison joined On Her Turf to discuss her historic canoe sprint gold.

Two Belarus team coaches have been removed from the Olympics after being involved in trying to send sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya back to their country.

She had the long and colorful nails. She wore the flashy outfits, including a neon, one-legged spandex bodysuit. Above all, she had the iconic nickname “Flo-Jo,” which just sounded fast.

Game on the line, chance for gold on the line, and Slovenia's Klemen Prepelic thought he had a layup that would have given Slovenia the win.

Germany's Annika Schleu took a significant lead in the women's event while the men's competition was tightly bunched after the first day of modern pentathlon competition at the Tokyo Olympics.

Japan is playing host to the Tokyo Olympics.

Australian teenager Keegan Palmer skated his way to gold in the first-ever Olympic men's skateboarding park final Thursday at the Tokyo Games, where American Cory Juneau moved up from eighth in qualifying to earn bronze.

United States BMX racer Connor Fields, who crashed and suffered a head injury during competition at the Tokyo Olympics, will be released from St. Luke’s International Hospital in Tokyo on Thursday, Aug. 5.

Belgium decathlete Thomas van der Plaetsen suffered a serious injury on his first attempt in the long jump on Wednesday at the Tokyo Olympics, forcing an early exit from competition in the decathlon's second event.

Rory McIlroy was a bit reluctant to compete at the Tokyo Olympics but on Wednesday he said the experience won him over and he is already looking forward to the 2024 Paris Games.

Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya took refuge in Poland on Wednesday after refusing to return to her authoritarian homeland from the Tokyo Olympics in a saga reminiscent of Cold War sporting defections.

It’s one thing to be a new mom: Unpredictable, frazzled, busy; you’re trying to get to know your baby, heal your body and maybe even breastfeed, which can be unfamiliar and challenging, especially at first.

Yamada Tetsuto's three-run double on Wednesday broke open a 2-2 tie and sent Japan into the Olympic baseball gold medal game.

Georgia's Lasha Talakhadze closed out the weightlifting competition at the Tokyo Olympics with a succession of world record lifts.

France prepares for its biggest challenge yet while the U.S. looks to advance to yet another men's basketball final.

Katie Ledecky gave all the details on what Team USA swimmers have been eating in Tokyo, how she managed to stay on top of an unpredictable bus schedule and the feeling of swimming next to Katie Grimes.

Serbia's women's basketball team got 16 points and a game-high 10 rebounds from small forward Sonja Vasic on Wednesday, holding off China to earn a spot in the semifinals at the Tokyo Olympics.

As our KPRC 2 team covers the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, anchors Keith Garvin and Christine Noel detailed their experience of the 6.0 magnitude earthquake that rattled part of Japan Tuesday evening.

Watch Simone Biles' only individual performance from the Tokyo Olympic Games.

Ana Marcela Cunha of Brazil on Wednesday won gold in women's open-water swimming at the Tokyo Olympics, finishing well clear of her primary threats with a time of one hour, 59 minutes and 30.8 seconds.

The stories behind the sports and the athletes are part of what makes the Olympics such a special competition around the world. That’s why KPRC 2 is proud to bring you the Olympic Zone presented by Living Designs Furniture. The popular magazine show, is a summary and showcase of up-to-the-minute Olympics content that sets the stage for the most important action every night of the Games. It can be seen Monday through Saturday during the Olympics on KPRC 2 at 6:30 p.m.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Tuesday rejected French boxer Mourad Aliev's appeal over his Tokyo Olympics disqualification for headbutting his opponent Frazer Clarke.

Houston's Raevyn Rogers helped give her mother a birthday to remember until the end of time.

The U.S. women will face off against Australia to kick off the quarterfinals while France faces its biggest challenge yet.

Greece has withdrawn from the Tokyo Olympics artistic swimming competitions after four of their athletes tested positive for COVID-19.

Everybody expected records to fall when the track cycling program began at the Tokyo Olympics, but nobody expected so much speed at the decade-old Izu Velodrome.

The final day of Olympic gymnastics competition is upon us. If you want to watch the much-anticipated final events, you’ll need to sacrifice some sleep because it kicks off at 3:00 a.m. Houston time.

Upset by Denmark in the gold-medal match at Rio 2016, France's men's handball team Tuesday blasted its way to a spot in the semifinals at the Tokyo Olympics.

Having fallen just short of a medal at Rio 2016, the Russian Olympic Committee on Tuesday worked its way into the semifinals of the Tokyo Olympics, sweeping Canada at Ariake Arena.

The stories behind the sports and the athletes are part of what makes the Olympics such a special competition around the world. That’s why KPRC 2 is proud to bring you the Olympic Zone presented by Living Designs Furniture. The popular magazine show, is a summary and showcase of up-to-the-minute Olympics content that sets the stage for the most important action every night of the Games. It can be seen Monday through Saturday during the Olympics on KPRC 2 at 6:30 p.m.

Simone Biles will compete. That’s the word from Japan regarding the elite gymnast from Spring. After withdrawing from several Olympic events due to a condition dubbed the ‘twisties’, a resilient Biles appears to be ready to compete on the balance beam. All-around champ Sunisa Lee is also in the beam line-up very early Tuesday morning.

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

U.S. weightlifter Sarah Robles won a bronze medal for the second straight Olympics on Monday.

Find out where to watch every minute of sport climbing competition at the Tokyo Olympics.

Five years after being resigned to silver in the final of the Rio 2016 Olympic women’s soccer tournament, Sweden will get another opportunity to play for the gold medal in Tokyo after defeating Canada 1-0.

Watch Simone Biles' return to action on beam at 4:50 a.m. ET on Tuesday, Aug. 3.

China won gold in the women's team sprint competition following a win against Germany in the gold medal heat. Elsewhere, men's and women's team pursuit qualifying took place, with the U.S. coming third in the women's division.

France's Jean Quiquampoix took a comfortable win the men's rapid-fire pistol event Monday at the Tokyo Olympics.

Angola and South Korea are unlikely to scale the podium when the women's handball medals are awarded at the Tokyo Olympics, but the 31-31 deadlock they settled for Monday was one of the highlights of the tournament.

The U.S. women's volleyball team closed out pool play at the Tokyo Olympics with a five-set victory over Italy at Ariake Arena.

On your mark... get set... go!

The United State’s men’s volleyball team saw their Tokyo Olympics come to an end on Sunday, losing in straight sets to Pool B rival Argentina 25-21, 25-23, 25-23.

Find out where to watch every minute of artistic swimming competition at the Tokyo Olympics.