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Tokyo Olympics

  • Saturday, 7 February, 2026
    The Winter Games 2026
    Winter Games 2026: the athletes to watch

    From a snowboarding star to the curling world title holders, here are some of the medal hopefuls at Milano Cortina

  • Saturday, 7 February, 2026
    The Winter Games 2026
    Eve Muirhead: Olympian turned Team GB manager

    The British squad’s chef de mission on leadership lessons from the pressure cooker experience of competing in four Olympics

  • Saturday, 20 September, 2025
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    Why a vaulting triumph is also a giant leap for Japan

    The stadium roar for Armand Duplantis this week comes four years after Tokyo’s heroic efforts to stage a Covid Olympics

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    Armand Duplantis grips the pole mid-air during his attempt in the men's pole vault final at the World Athletics Championships.
  • Friday, 9 August, 2024
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    Paris holds first ceremonies for Olympians beaten by doping cheats

    Medal reallocation events mark Games’ latest attempt to navigate path through drug scandals

    Members of the US figure skating team pose with their medals, following the reallocation of medals from the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games
  • Saturday, 3 August, 2024
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  • Thursday, 1 August, 2024
    Paris Olympics
    The official medal selfie: Paris Olympics steps up product placement

    Prominent position of sponsors’ brands is first for the Games

    Medallists from South Korea, North Korea and China take a selfie with a Samsung-provided phone
  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    Paris Olympics
    French swimmer Léon Marchand cruises to two Olympic gold medals

    The 22-year-old sets two records in one night in a huge show of strength

    Leon Marchand, of France, celebrates after winning the men’s 200m breaststroke
  • Tuesday, 28 February, 2023
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    Japanese prosecutors charge Dentsu over Olympic bid-rigging scandal

    Advertising giant says five executives will hand back pay after indictments

    Fireworks illuminate the National Stadium during the closing ceremony of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
  • Wednesday, 12 October, 2022
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    Widening probe into alleged sponsorship-related bribery has led to high-profile arrests

    Tokyo Paralympics dolls on sale at the official Games shop in Tokyo in March 2020
  • Wednesday, 31 August, 2022
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  • Saturday, 20 August, 2022
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    Manchester United fans display banners in protest against the Glazer family’s ownership of the club inside the stadium before a match
  • Wednesday, 17 August, 2022
    Japanese business & finance
    Tokyo Olympics official and executives tied to corporate sponsor arrested

    Prosecutors allege Haruyuki Takahashi received bribes ahead of 2020 Games

    Haruyuki Takahashi, executive board member of the Tokyo Olympics Organizing Committee
  • Wednesday, 22 December, 2021
    Covid-19
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    London still holds record for most expensive summer games with final bill of nearly $15bn

    Sky Brown skateboarder in action
  • Wednesday, 29 September, 2021
    Covid-19
    Coronavirus latest: US Covid cases and hospitalisations ease during September - as it happened
  • Friday, 3 September, 2021
    Japan
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    From the race to vaccinate to the pledge to reach net zero, his successor will face these hurdles

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    Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga arrives to meet with president of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Andrew Parsons in Tokyo, Japan, 03 September 2021, following his announcement that he will not seek re-election for Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leadership this month.
  • Sunday, 15 August, 2021
    Olympic Games
    Boris Johnson pledges cash boost for Olympics Team GB

    PM says additional £232m will allow athletes to ‘deliver their best possible performances in three years’ time in Paris’

    Boris Johnson with Team GB athletes
  • Wednesday, 11 August, 2021
    Japanese politics & policy
    Suga’s failure to win Olympics bounce gives hope to rivals

    Japanese prime minister’s approval rating dips despite Tokyo 2020 success as leadership deadline and election loom

    Japan’s prime minister Yoshihide Suga attends a news conference on Japan’s response to the coronavirus pandemic during the Tokyo 2020 Games
  • Wednesday, 11 August, 2021
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    Forecasts show the rapid pace of US consumer price increases is expected to cool

  • Sunday, 8 August, 2021
    Sport
    Tokyo hands Olympic flame to Paris after pandemic-stricken Games

    Late medals surge leaves US at top of table, narrowly beating China

    Closing ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics
  • Sunday, 8 August, 2021
    Olympic Games
    Tokyo Olympics Daily: Countries weigh medal hauls as Games draw to a close

    Jason Kenny wins his seventh gold, Brazil beats Spain and another triumph for Allyson Felix

  • Sunday, 8 August, 2021
    Chinese politics & policy
    China’s sporting success at Tokyo 2020 is tinged with politics

    Beijing will finish near top of the medal table but excess nationalism may overshadow its achievements

  • Saturday, 7 August, 2021
    Olympic Games
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    A sport reinstated for Tokyo may not have a global following but means everything to the hosts

  • Friday, 6 August, 2021
    Covid-19
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    The Tokyo Games have reminded us of the solace that sport can bring

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  • Friday, 6 August, 2021
    Olympic Games
    Tokyo Olympics Daily: Athletics enters final stretch with new teams in the lead

    US misses out on men’s relay and Britain finally wins in the velodrome

    The men’s 4x100-metre relay qualifying round
  • Thursday, 5 August, 2021
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    Record-breaking performances lead to debate about how results were achieved

    Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson-Herah, right, wins the women’s 100 metres final at the Tokyo Games
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