Athletics

Nearly two years to the day before the opening of the sports spectacle, French President Emmanuel Macron will convene a meeting of ministers on Monday to discuss difficulties overshadowing the Paris 2024 Olympics preparations. The Olympics...

IOC President Thomas Bach said Friday that Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva’s performance in the Beijing Olympics final, in which she fell multiple times and appeared overwhelmed by the doping issue that has surrounded her, had...

The IOC announced Monday that Peng Shuai met with Olympic leader Thomas Bach at the Beijing Winter Games, while US skier Mikaela Shiffrin was bitterly disappointed in her first shot at gold in China. Tennis star...

Kamila Valieva, a Russian adolescent figure skater, became the first woman to land a quadruple jump at the Olympics on Monday, and she didn’t stop there: she landed two. The 15-year-old landed quadruple jumps, which are...

The opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics began on Friday as China attempted to turn the page on a troubled build-up overshadowed by human rights concerns and Covid. The lattice-shaped “Bird’s Nest” stadium took center...

In a dispute over China’s choice to designate a commander of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) as the event’s torchbearer, an Indian envoy in Beijing said he would not attend the opening and closing ceremonies of...

China has vowed retaliation in response to a proposed US diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. Zhao Lijian, a spokeswoman for China’s foreign ministry, said the country would take “decisive counter-measures,” but did...

Elaine Thompson-Herah, the Olympic gold medalist in the women’s 100m, said on Wednesday that Florence Griffith-33-year-old Joyner’s world record in the event is within her “reach” before this week’s Diamond League meeting in Lausanne. Thompson-Herah, 29,...

Days before the Games begin, the first coronavirus case was discovered in the Paralympic Village, according to organizers, as Japan battles a record wave of infections. According to organizers, the issue involves a Games-related member of...

After a year of epidemic delays and threats of cancellation, IOC President Thomas Bach declared the Tokyo 2020 Games concluded on Sunday, bringing the “most demanding Olympic journey” to a finish. As Bach addressed the 68,000-seat...