Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gymnast Simone Biles was predicted to bring home a slew of gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics, but her dreams ended in disappointment. Here's why she didn't compete in four major events.

The Tokyo Olympics are officially over as Sunday's closing ceremony marked the formal end and handed off to Paris for 2024. (If you missed it, you can watch Sunday night on NBC at 8 p.m. ET. August 8, 2021 at 9:27 AM EDT 69 New Updates Zack Pierce· Senior Managing Editor

GENEVA (AP) — Just about everybody, especially the organizers in Japan and Switzerland, want the Tokyo Olympics to open on July 23 — as scheduled. And yet, 2021 is starting on a similar path that led to the decision last March to postpone the games for ...

While the eyes of the world will soon be upon Paris and the sporting competition, we take a look back at the last summer Olympics, which took place in the Japanese capital of Tokyo, and marked the second time the city had acted as host after Asia’s first ...

The decrease in emissions from flights has got to make a difference, right? The images of empty stadiums as athletes perform near-impossible feats at the Olympic Games in Tokyo is another sobering reminder of the toll the COVID-19 pandemic has taken on the ...

TOKYO - Jill Biden embarked on her first solo international trip as first lady, leading a U.S. delegation to the Olympic Games in Tokyo, where the coronavirus is surging and COVID-19 infections have climbed to a six-month high. She arrived in Tokyo on ...

The Tokyo Olympics have officially kicked off with the opening ceremony on Friday evening. The games were delayed a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which will continue to play a part in this year's event with Tokyo currently under a state of emergency ...

Sarah Gamal will be refereeing 3-on-3 basketball. For Sarah Gamal, the significance of being the first hijab-wearing basketball referee to take part in the Olympic Games goes well beyond the court. The Egyptian referee and 3-on-3 basketball will both make ...

TOKYO, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Japan's Olympic Minister insists the rearranged Tokyo2020 Games must be held "at any cost", while the International Olympic Committee says only that it is committed to delivering a safe event. But with less than a year before the ...

U.S. Olympic marathoner Aliphine Tuliamuk said she never expected to be a new mom competing in the Olympics, and she also never expected to have to worry about whether she would be allowed to bring her infant daughter to the Olympics. The coronavirus ...