With 100 days to go until the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25, the local organizers revealed the official medal design ...

This month, the Japanese National Diet passed a revision to the Basic Act on Sport (2011), requiring the national and local ...

Grand Slam Track has canceled the final meet of its first season, in Los Angeles, leaving the host of the 2028 Olympics and ...

Texas sprinter Xavier Butler has Olympic track aspirations as a married father at 19. He's competing in the NCAA Outdoor ...

WASHINGTON – T.J. Oshie, who scored four shootout goals for the U.S. to beat host Russia at the 2014 Sochi Olympics and ...

A considerably smaller economy than the likes of China, the UK, France or Japan, Greece spent $11bn on hosting the Olympics in 2004, equivalent to almost 5% of its annual GDP. That's more than ...

TOKYO, Japan — Paris will remind people of the value of hosting the Olympics, says a top official of the Tokyo 2020 Games, which were delayed by a year because of Covid and tainted by corruption.

A Japanese IOC member, Morinari Watanabe, warned last week the Olympic bribery scandal is hurting the bid. "I think Sapporo remains the most prospective candidate to host the 2030 Winter Olympics ...

The Olympics cost Japan at least $15.4 billion ... This means the usual ways that host countries make up the cost of Olympics spending aren’t on the table. Critics have called the Tokyo Olympics ...

Medals won by host countries since 1948 In Summer Olympics. Japan Brazil Britain London ’12 65 Tokyo ’20 58 Tokyo ’64 29 London ’48 27 Rio ’16 19 Greece China Australia Beijing ’08 100 ...

After the Games, Saitama Stadium will continue to host major football matches. Baseball is big business in Japan, and the 2020 Olympics marked the return of softball and baseball as official events.