Organizers plan to exercise extreme caution when the Olympic torch relay starts next week, knowing any stumble could imperil the the opening of the Tokyo Games in just over four months. The organizers ...

TOKYO (AP) — The Tokyo Olympic torch relay will not run through the streets of Osaka prefecture next week because of rising COVID-19 cases. The move is a setback for Tokyo organizers, who began the ...

The Tokyo Olympics torch relay will take another detour this weekend when it enters the southern island of Okinawa. A leg of the relay on Okinawa's resort island of Miyakojima set for Sunday has been ...

HAMURA CITY, Japan (Reuters) - Japanese actress Satomi Ishihara performed the first 'torch kiss' handover of the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics torch relay on Saturday during a rehearsal on the outskirts ...

Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake, Richard Kilty, CJ Ujah and Zharnel Hughes of Team GB celebrate winning the silver medal in the Men's 4 x 100m relay at Tokyo 2020.Photo by Michael Steele/Getty Images Great ...

Kenyan mother Lilian Odira shocked the favourites to win the women's 800 metres at the Tokyo World Athletics Championships on Sunday, while Botswana seized 4x400m men's relay gold from the US. Odira ...

The Tokyo Olympic torch relay began in Olympia, Greece, on Thursday at the traditional Olympic Flame lighting ceremony, held with limited attendance due to coronavirus concerns. “We are especially ...

The team had a first-round baton drop at the 2008 Olympics, a first-round illegal handoff at 2009 Worlds, a fall in the final at 2011 Worlds, a retroactive anti-doping medal strip at the 2012 Olympics ...

TOKYO, JAPAN - SEPTEMBER 03: (L-R) Brittni Mason, Noah Malone, Tatyana McFadden and Nick Mayhugh of Team United States celebrate after winning gold in the 4x100m Universal Relay on day 10 of the Tokyo ...