Japanese authorities have arrested members of the notorious Yakuza crime ring, after they were found extorting earnings from workers at the site of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Six Yakuza members were arrested Wednesday for illegally mobilizing homeless people to work on construction, then extorting part of their $90-a-day wages, the Asahi Shimbun reported.

The Canadian sprinter lost his gold medal 30 years ago this week after a positive test at the lab in Seoul. The Star dug up the results which are filled with bizarre notations. “If I had seen this in Seoul, I would have kept my medal.” “If I had seen this in Seoul, I would have kept my medal,” Johnson says while reading pages from the September 1988 lab report containing his drug-testing results. “If you can’t see the evidence, how can others condemn somebody?”

The organising committee for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics and the Tokyo metropolitan government are planning to use a facial recognition system during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, sources said.

A decision to overturn the Olympic life bans of 28 Russian athletes "may have a serious impact on the future fight against doping", says the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) overturned the IOC suspensions - for doping at the 2014 Winter Olympics - partially upholding 11 other appeals.

Winter Olympics security guards had to throw US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un out of the Opening Ceremony on Friday.

Hosting the Olympics could be seen as an opportunity to upgrade the country's infrastructure or bring in more tourists from all over the globe. However, the event comes with a hefty price tag, as Korea has spent 13 billion dollars to host the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics including $1.5 billion in erecting state-of-the-art stadia used for the 17-day sporting event.

After a historic performance at the Olympics, some Norwegians fret that they dominate their favorite sport so much that they are ruining it.

Fireworks explode during the closing ceremony.

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics organising committee has confirmed that 87% of the plywood panels used to build its new national stadium come from southeast Asian rainforests. But the timber cannot be traced back to its original source under the committees’s certification protocols, which have been censured by campaigners for a lack of due diligence.

Even as the sport’s top athletes compete for gold at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, a scientific mystery remains unsolved.

North Korea will take part in the next two Olympic Games in Japan and China, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said on Saturday after meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang.

Rembmering Soviet Maria Gorokhovskaya at the Helsinki 1952 Olympics, where she won silver on uneven bars.

A joint statement says the two Koreas agreed to establish buffer zones along their land and sea borders to reduce military tensions and prevent accidental clashes. The statement signed by the countries’ defense chiefs also says the Koreas agreed to withdraw 11 guard posts from the Demilitarized Zone by December with the aim of removing them eventually.

Team GB's Olympic hero Mo Farah's two gold medals could not prevent him being held by US customs officials on suspicion of terrorism as he returned home to Portland, Oregon for Christmas.

Amazing shot of this eruption!

A Russian lawmaker has said the ‘gay propaganda’ law will remain enforced during the Sochi Winter Olympic Games in 2014. Vitaly Milonov, co-sponsor of the ‘non-traditional relationships’ bill, said the government cannot decide when to selectively enforce the law.

Three months before Russia’s parliament unanimously passed a federal law banning the propaganda of “non-traditional relationships” — that is, same-sex ones — the bill’s sponsor went on the country’s most respected interview show to explain her reasoning.

Local authorities in Russia have allegedly harassed activists and journalists critical of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Human Rights Watch (HRW) claims. The human rights organization stated in a report that, beginning in 2008, it has documented efforts by the government to intimidate those speaking out on, among other things, the effects of Olympic venue construction on the environment and locals' health.

Gay Olympic figure skater Johnny Weir has said that he does not plan to campaign for LGBT rights or even openly kiss his Russian-born husband at the games in Sochi, but that he is prepared to be arrested by Russian authorities. The flamboyant athlete and reality TV star told CBS News that he is uncertain whether he will even be allowed into the country to compete.

Valerie Grand'Maison of Montreal won Canada's first gold medal at the Paralympic swimming world championships, taking the women's 100-metre butterfly in the visually impaired category in Montreal.

No flashes of lightning like last weekend nor any sparkling new world record to accompany the great man in the Luzhniki Stadium this time but Usain Bolt still illuminates the track above all others as he added world title No 7, this time over 200 metres, to his matchless CV here in Moscow.

Russian legislators have said they will enforce new anti-gay laws during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, but the ancient athletic games started out as little more than a gigantic festival of homoerotic excess.

Usain Bolt, the Jamaican sprinter widely regarded as the fastest man alive, says he's thinking about hanging up his running shoes after the 2016 Olympics in Brazil.

At 64, Yasuo Hazaki admits he may no longer have the speed of an Olympic athlete, but guile is as important an attribute in his chosen sport - competitive hide-and-seek - and he is lobbying for it be included in the 2020 Games.

TO TRIUMPHANT shouts of “banzai!” it was announced on September 7th that Tokyo would host the 2020 Olympic games. The city fended off not-especially-stiff...

Athletes and spectators attending the Winter Olympics in Sochi in February will face some of the most invasive and systematic spying and surveillance in the history of the Games, documents shared with the Guardian show.

The best thing you can say about Canada’s 2014 Olympic hockey jerseys is that they’re not the United States’ 2014 Olympic hockey jerseys. Team Canada’s uniforms were officially unveiled Tuesday, four months before the Winter Olympics open in Sochi. The reactions up north have been lukewarm, to say the least.

Russia on Friday said it did not have confirmation of a single country boycotting next year’s Sochi Winter Olympics despite a furore over an anti-gay law and vowed to hold one of the best Games ever. Speaking to the Russian lower house of parliament, Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said that no country had definitely announced a boycott.

Ahead of the Sochi Olympics in February, Russia is taking saliva samples from religiously conservative Muslim women, according to locals in the North Caucasus, gathering DNA so authorities

Vadim Skornyakov, a beefy Russian bodybuilder, does a delightfully whimsical dance during his routine at the 25th Open Cup held in St. Petersburg earlier this year.

The Winter Olympic torch is on its way to outer space. A three-man crew is bringing the torch on a Russian rocket to the International Space Station. It will stay there for five days, during which time astronauts will take it for a "walk" outside.

Any journalist who snaps Sepia Instagrams of their brunch at the Sochi Olympics will promptly lose their accreditation for the games. “Journalists using mobile phones to film athletes or spectators will be considered a serious violation and will result in cancellation of accreditation,” reported Vasily Konov, head of the Russian state-run R-Sports news outlet.

“Sochi is a unique place,” Putin told the International Olympic Committee in 2007, when his personal touch helped Russia win the chance to host the 2014 Winter Games. Since then, he's mired Russia in political and environmental cover-ups and confusion, creating an exhausted citizenry and a feeling of cagy distrust among conservationists.

A documentary alleging that behind the scenes of the Winter Olympics in Sochi lies greed, extortion and environmental damage is screened for the first time on Sunday.

German President Joachim Gauck is boycotting the Winter Olympics and will not travel to Sochi, Russia next year. Der Spiegel reports that Gauck took the decision in protest against human rights violations and the harassment of Russian opposition political figures.