America's top athletes could be banned from the Olympics and other major international sporting events if the United States follows through on its threat to withdraw funding from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), anti-doping leaders told Reuters.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Wednesday that the Tokyo Olympics could not take place next year unless the coronavirus pandemic is contained, as the city's governor requested an extension of Japan's state of emergency.

Fifa could raise the age limit for the men's football tournament at next summer's rearranged Olympics to 24.

The Tokyo Olympics are to be postponed until 2021 after talks between Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, and the International Olympic Committee president, Thomas Bach. Abe said they had established that cancelling the Games was out of the question, and that Bach had agreed “100%” that a postponement was the most appropriate response to the global disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

Veteran IOC member Dick Pound told USA TODAY Sports that "postponement has been decided" for the 2020 Olympics, and that it won't start July 24.

Bill Moreau, a former vice president with the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee, says the issue has been in the public spotlight for years and officials still aren't doing enough to prevent abuse.

The bed frames will be recycled into paper products after the Olympics.

Agnes Keleti, the oldest living Olympic champion and a Holocaust survivor, earned 10 gymnastics medals between the 1952 and 1956 Olympics. Keleti is the oldest living Olympic champion and a Holocaust survivor. She won 10 medals in gymnastics — including five golds — between the 1952 Helsinki Games and at the 1956 Melbourne Games.

Iran's sole female Olympic medalist Kimia Alizadeh announced that she has permanently left her country for Europe. "Let me start with a greeting, a farewell or condolences," the 21-year--old wrote in an Instagram post explaining why she was defecting. "I am one of the millions of oppressed women in Iran who they have been playing with for years."

The World Anti-Doping Agency has banned Russia from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and the 2022 World Cup

Toyota shared its electric vehicle and robot lineup for the 2020 Olympic Games. Things are about to get weird.

After spending a day with Tokyo’s anti-Olympics organizers, it was clear why they are angry about the 2020 Olympics—and that they are ready to fight.

The most decorated Olympian of all time, swimmer Michael Phelps, opened up about his battle with depression and said he contemplated suicide at the height of his career.

The Olympic medals are made from precious metals extracted from recycled electronics and melted down

Milan and the ski resort of Cortina d’Ampezzo beat a Swedish bid that included Stockholm and the ski resort in Are for the Games.

Sport is a special domain, but it is not immune from the law and human rights. We're yet to see if the United Nations Human Rights Council will take further steps following this new ruling.

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Japan’s Olympic organisers have unveiled a proposal to make medals out of recycled mobile phones and discarded computers. The move is part of the organisers’ efforts to create an environmentally “sustainable” foundation for the summer games, which will take place in the Japanese capital in 2020. The proposal will result in gold, silver and bronze medals being created from recycled precious metals obtained from discarded electronics, ranging from phones to computers.

Gymnastics chiefs are accused of stealing parkour after voting to include it under its umbrella of sports and could now face legal action.

Yoshitaka Sakurada is responsible for ensuring the 2020 Olympic Games are not hacked.