Reigning junior world champion Deepak Punia placed himself in line for the senior world title by reaching the 86kg final, apart from also booking his Tokyo Olympics quota, here on Saturday. Competing ...

Indian athletes who have already qualified for the Tokyo Olympics are keeping their chin up amid assertions by the Games bosses that the event, now scheduled for July 2021, would be cancelled if the p...

Tokyo organisers said on Tuesday they have no “Plan B” in the event the Olympics need to be postponed again because of the coronavirus pandemic. Masa Takaya, the spokesman for the Tokyo Olympics, ...

The world is a small place. Even the most minor incident can trigger a chain of reactions that extends far beyond its source. In the last week of February, stock markets in the United States of Americ...

Tokyo 2020 organising committee president Yoshiro Mori said the Olympic Games, already postponed to 2021, would be “scrapped” if they could not take place then, according to an interview published...

International Olympic Committee (IOC) chief Thomas Bach says the Tokyo Games would have to be scrapped if the event cannot be held next year due to the Covid-19 crisis.In March, the IOC and Japanese g...

Kenya’s former world marathon record holder Wilson Kipsang spent the night in jail after being arrested drinking and playing pool with a large group after a night-time curfew, police said Friday. Ki...

Japan’s capital recorded more than 70 new coronavirus infections on Tuesday for its highest tally in a single day, as pressure mounted on the prime minister to order a lockdown.Japanese cases topped...