The Japanese economy looks to be in danger of missing out on an Olympic bounce, after new figures revealed that it achieved only sluggish growth in the second quarter.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) sponsor Airbnb is rebounding strongly from a COVID-blighted 2020, as travel picks up again in some regions of the world.

There were four new arrivals on the Olympic sport programme in Tokyo. Skateboarding, sport climbing and surfing all look set for a long-term Olympic future, but for karate things are less certain.

You may be among the million or so people who have already viewed the Instagram post by Jamaica's Olympic 110 metres hurdles champion Hansle Parchment in which he finds and thanks the volunteer who played a vital part in his previous night’s victory.

Men’s pool action and women’s knockout matches took place on another busy day of action at the 2021 EuroBeachVolley tournament in Austria.

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics are not even a week old, yet the fight for sports to feature at future Games is hotting up. This week one which lays claim to being the biggest outside of the Olympic Movement, cricket, formally joined the race for a Los Angeles 2028 place.

The International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) is to form a Riding Working Group to review the equestrian element of the sport at Tokyo 2020 - following controversy and a horse-abuse scandal.

Robin Mitchell, the Acting President of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC), has expressed delight that a record 93 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) went home from Tokyo 2020 with medals.

Boxer Muslim Gadzhimagomedov has already turned his attention to the Paris 2024 Olympics, following a silver medal at Tokyo 2020.

The Belgian Olympic and Interfederal Committee (BOIC) has outlined bonuses which will be paid to athletes who achieved top-eight finishes at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

The catastrophic cost of weightlifting losing its Olympic status is laid out in a letter to the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) and all its members.

Do not let Sunday’s Closing Ceremony, with its two renditions of the Kenyan Anthem, in honour of marathon winners Peres Jepchirchir and Eliud Kipchoge, fool you.

Robin Mitchell, Acting President of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC), has lauded the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games as the event reaches its climax today with the Closing Ceremony.