Tag: 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games
China sending more than 400 athletes to Tokyo Olympics
BEIJING — China will send 431 athletes to the Tokyo Games as part of a 777-member delegation, its largest at an Olympics outside China,...
Just in time for Tokyo games, Olympic items up for auction
BOSTON — When the first modern Olympics were held in Athens in 1896, winners did not get gold medals as they will later this...
FINA suspends 2 Russian swimmers for Tokyo Olympics
LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Two Russian swimmers set to compete at the Tokyo Olympics were provisionally suspended on Wednesday for anti-doping violations by world governing...
Britain’s Johanna Konta to miss Olympics due to COVID-19
LONDON — Johanna Konta of Britain won't compete at the Tokyo Olympics after testing positive for COVID-19, she said Tuesday, after being dropped from...
Britain’s Johanna Konta to miss Olympics due to COVID-19
LONDON — Johanna Konta of Britain won't compete at the Tokyo Olympics after testing positive for COVID-19, she said Tuesday, after being dropped from...
IOC president quickly corrects slip up in Olympic pep talk
TOKYO — IOC President Thomas Bach appeared in public on Tuesday for the first time since arriving in Tokyo last week with the pandemic-postponed...
4 US, UK Olympic contractors arrested for alleged drug use
TOKYO — Four U.S. and British men working for a power company contracted for the Olympics were arrested on suspicion of using cocaine, officials...
Gymnast Oleg Verniaiev out of Olympics after doping ban
KYIV, Ukraine — Olympic champion gymnast Oleg Verniaiev is set to miss the Tokyo Games because he has been banned following a failed drug...
World champ cyclist Peter Sagan to miss Tokyo Olympics
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — Three-time world champion Peter Sagan will miss the Tokyo Olympics after he had surgery to treat an infection in his right...
Roster: Three-quarters of US Olympians have college ties
Three-quarters of the 613-person U.S. Olympic team that was released Tuesday competed in the American collegiate system — the most up-to-date number to illustrate...
