2020 Tokyo Olympics

Six people were banned from the Olympics for breaking rules designed to minimize COVID-19 cases. Four of those who were banished include accredited contractors from the U.S. and Great Britain, who were arrested for allegedly using cocaine before the Olympics opened.

The Tokyo Olympics crossed over with a Donald Trump rally Saturday night, as the former president encouraged a hyped-up Phoenix crowd to boo the U.S. Women’s soccer team. The political action committee Turning Point Action sponsored the “Protect Our Elections Rally,” which turned into a wide-ranging attack on fellow Republicans, the military, the press, “woke” culture — and eventually...

Pita Taufatofua made a splash in Rio in 2016 when he entered the Olympics Opening Ceremony shirtless and covered in oil. Well, he’s back in Tokyo. The Tongan taekwondo practitioner, skier and canoeist marched once again in this year’s Opening Ceremony on Friday as his island nation’s flag-bearer, causing an Internet splash. Before the ceremony, he’d dropped hints that...

Top athletes everywhere improvised, finding ways to train even as the Summer Olympics were postponed a year because of the pandemic. One built a backyard pole vault runway, another installed a shot put ring, they ran through the streets, transformed garages into home gyms and planned to create bubbles to compete on the basketball court.

This past year, athletes had to virtually reveal their lifelong dream of making the Olympic team had finally come true. Watch as their families react to the news and prove that despite the circumstances, the emotion and excitement are still real.

In Episode 3 of the sports podcast “My New Favorite Olympian,” we interview surfer Caroline Marks about growing up in the spotlight and embracing body positivity.

The UConn Huskies will once again be well represented in the Olympics. Five UConn stars were named to the U.S. Women’s Olympic Basketball Team Monday. Sue Bird, Diana Taurasi, Tina Charles, Breanna Stewart, and Napheesa Collier will all represent the USA in Tokyo next month. Bird and Taurasi joined Olympic head coach Dawn Staley on the Today Show Monday...

Phoenix Suns’ Devin Booker joins Team USA for Tokyo Olympics.

It may be hard to believe today, but women weren’t even allowed to compete in the Olympic Games until 1900, four years after the first events took place. And even then only 22 out of 997 competitors were women. Flash forward to 2021 and this summer, for the first time ever, half of the postponed Tokyo 2020 athletes will be...

What will this year’s Olympic Games look like with so much of the world affected by the pandemic? Mike Tirico previews the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.

Mike Tirico won’t be anchoring NBC’s primetime coverage of the Tokyo Olympics from the usual confines of a studio inside the International Broadcast Center.

Hear from Allyson Felix, Megan Rapinoe, Katie Ledecky and other members of Team USA as they share their experience during the pandemic, emotions after the 2020 Games were delayed and the excitement for Tokyo.

Olympian Summer Rappaport pushes her body to exhaustion for a living. But waiting for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics seems to be a “constant grind.”

The one year delay of the Tokyo Olympic Games was devastating for the athletes who had been training all their lives for 2020. The most decorated Olympian of all time, Michael Phelps, discussed the mental challenges these athletes have faced, and how he would have responded himself.

The cost of the postponement for the Tokyo Olympics could reach at least $2.8 billion in figures released by the Tokyo organizing committee, the Tokyo city government and Japan’s national government

Tokyo 2020 CEO Toshiro Muto said on Wednesday that the organizing committee is still working through establishing coronavirus safety measures for the upcoming 2020 Olympics.

With the Tokyo Olympics being postponed to 2021, The New York Times caught up with Olympic hopefuls, like surfer Jordy Smith, skateboarder Jagger Eaton and Paralympic swimmer Mallory Weggemann, to see how they are keeping busy during their unexpected downtime.

The 2020 Tokyo Olympics, now set to be held in 2021, will be unlike any other. What will it take to make Olympians feel safe enough to compete in next year’s Summer Games?

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach addressed the media on Thursday to talk about how his organization is preparing for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which have been postponed until 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Even the world’s best athletes have been stuck at home during the pandemic. One year out from the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, find out what Olympians have been doing to keep busy during quarantine.