Olympics

Backstroker Ryan Murphy is representing the USA at this year’s Olympics in Tokyo. He tells LX News’ Jobeth Devera about managing migraines throughout his swimming career, including a time on a flight in 2012 where he hurled on an Auburn coach.

A man accused of assaulting an Asian couple and threatening s U.S. Olympian at an Orange County park has been arrested.

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.

American athlete Nia Ali is running toward her second Olympic team, ready to prove she deserves to be there as a mother of two. “It’s not about proving other people wrong, but I like to try to prove myself right.”

After earning bronze in the Rio Olympics, 42-year-old Kerri Walsh Jennings aims for her fourth gold in Tokyo with new partner Brooke Sweat. If she qualifies, she would be the oldest beach volleyball player ever to take an Olympic court.

At 6 feet, 7 inches tall and 315 pounds, the athlete bench presses 500 pounds but says his progress in finding mental focus has given him a new edge.

The Team USA attacker says his grandmother is waiting in Japan to see him play.

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.

Athletes at the Tokyo Olympics who come down with minor symptoms of COVID-19 could be isolated in a hotel lined up by local organizers of the games, according to Japan’s Kyodo news agency, which cited unnamed officials with “knowledge of the plan.”

Former Olympic snowboarder Julie Pomagalski of France has died in an avalanche in the Swiss Alps

A Tokyo 2020 organizer says the Olympic torch relay is ready to begin.

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

A former Olympian and longtime track coach has pleaded not guilty and been ordered held on $200,000 bail on charges that he sexually molested boys while working at a sports camp in western Massachusetts in the 1970s. Conrad Mainwaring, who was a hurdler for Antigua and Barbuda in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, was arraigned Tuesday in Berkshire Superior…

The International Olympic Committee and China are teaming up to offer vaccines to athletes and teams preparing for the upcoming games in both Tokyo and Beijing

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach, who led the committee through the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics, has won re-election to a second term.

The International Olympic Committee said Brisbane, Australia is the frontrunner to host the 2032 Summer Olympics, which, if selected, would mark the third time Australia has hosted the summer games.

Russia’s team and athletes will be officially branded as “ROC” at the next two Olympics

Russia’s team and athletes will be officially branded as “ROC” at the next two Olympics

The president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee Yoshiro Mori has resigned from his position