Tokyo Olympics

Ashleigh Johnson was the first Black woman to join the U.S. women’s national water polo team in 2016, and won gold in 2016 and 2020. At first, she didn’t dwell on the significance of her achievements, but eventually was able to embrace her Blackness. Johnson talks about coming into her own and the advice she gives to young athletes who...

Wheelchair basketball athlete Zoe Voris is in Tokyo representing Team USA. She spoke to LX News Now host Eric Alvarez about traveling and being apart from her family due to COVID restrictions at the events. Plus, we hear from her teammates and coach at UT Arlington, which has sent 14 athletes to this year’s Paralympics representing 3 different countries.

The unbreakable bond between star gymnast Suni Lee and her father warmed hearts across the world when Lee fulfilled their longtime dream and took home gold in the Tokyo Olympics.

After a twist of fate during the pandemic, a resilient double amputee will be competing for gold in the Tokyo Paralympics.

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

The star sprinter is ready to show the world she is “here to stay” in her first race since missing the Tokyo Olympics due to a drug suspension.

Olympic bronze medalist Molly Seidel is one of several standout American women planning to run the New York City Marathon in November, race organizers announced Wednesday.

The 25-year-old sold the medal, which was her first Olympic medal, for $125,000 to help raise money for the surgery needed for the Polish boy.

Olympic gold medalist Breanna Stewart and wife Marta Xargay Casademont announced the birth of their first child via surrogate on Monday.

Nearly a third of summer Olympic medal records are held by Americans. See how we stack up to the competition in each sport.

Following an apparent accident in the water, Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte is sharing a “successful” update after undergoing surgery.

Eddy Alvarez is back home from Tokyo after a couple of whirlwind weeks representing Team USA — both as a co-flag bearer in the opening ceremony, alongside basketball star Sue Bird, and as a silver medal-winning baseball player.

Cory Juneau says it’s still “surreal” that he took home the bronze medal for park skateboarding from the Tokyo Olympics. As the 22-year-old San Diego native looks to the future, he stopped by NBCLX to look back at his experience — and attempted to show us how to do one of the trickiest kickflips he nailed in Tokyo.

Team USA’s Sunisa Lee, who won gold, silver and bronze medals at the Tokyo Olympics, received a warm welcome home in St. Paul, Minn., on Sunday with a parade in her honor.

Audrey Asistio takes a look back at some of the most memorable moments from the Tokyo Olympics.

The IOC released their coronavirus testing data on Sunday, which included the total tests and results for Games participants, staff and contractors from July 1 through August 6. Across the weeks leading up to and through the Games, 624,364 screening tests were completed in Tokyo with 138 confirmed positives.

The Olympics are the home of miracles. When it comes to Olympic upsets, the United States’ 1980 “Miracle on Ice” against the Soviet Union tops the list. A team of mostly amateur players taking down the four-time defending gold medalists encapsulates what can captivate the world during the globe’s biggest sporting event. The Summer Olympics have played host to some…

Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will go down as one of the most chaotic games in history, But despite the challenges, athletes from around the world made history with Olympic firsts and by breaking records.

Missing some of its brightest stars due to COVID protocol, the team still basked in the last spotlight of a very unusual Olympics

Performing your country’s national anthem at the closing ceremony is a distinguished honor. But for France’s Thomas Pesquet, it was even more special. Pesquet, an astronaut currently in outer space, helped perform the song on his saxophone from the International Space Station as a symbol of the Olympics’ universality. It was the first time the national anthem of the...