In an all-China gold medal match in men's table tennis singles that featured the tournament's top two seeds, Ma Long topped No. 1 Fan Zhendong in six games to defend his gold medal from Rio in 2016.

China's top seed Ma Long swept aside defending champion Zhang ... for a third consecutive clean-sweep of gold medals at the Olympics after scooping up every title at Beijing and London.

These are no ordinary players. Fan, 27, is a multiple-time Olympic and Worlds gold medallist and former world No.1. So is ...

Fewer and fewer cities want to host the Olympics. That should tell the IOC something. Katie Ledecky entered the Tokyo Olympics with outsized expectations and demonstrated how much faster she is ...

It will take something much more nuanced than those basic notions to assess the pandemic-delayed Tokyo ... to the Olympics. Toyota, Japan’s most famous manufacturer and a long-time IOC sponsor ...

Simone Biles’ decision to withdraw from the team and individual all-around competitions at the Tokyo Olympics has opened eyes to the pressures behind the gold. “It’s been a long week ...

The Tokyo Olympics ... do not want the Olympics to go ahead, but the International Olympic Committee (IOC) remains steadfast that the spectacle will take place. Japan has long insisted there ...

Three years ago, Yuto Horigome stood atop the podium for the men's skateboard street competition at the Tokyo Games ... in the Paris Olympics.” He had endured a long and winding five years ...

Following her historic bronze medal win at the Paris Olympics ... so after Tokyo, I was very disappointed and how the events turned out to be for me was not very good. It took me a long time ...