Entering the Games there had been just five sub-10.80 women's 100m times ever recorded at the Olympics, per World Athletics. After the Tokyo Olympics, there have now been 13. Reigning world champion ...

China's Su Bingtian, the first Asian runner to break the 10-seconds barrier, said he may have run his last 100 metres after the 35-year-old sprinter struggled at a domestic meet.The son of Guangdong ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Tokyo's 2020 Olympics are already the most expensive summer games ever. And that's before the games have even taken place. The Japanese public is largely against ...

All eyes are on Japan this week, thanks to the much-delayed Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, happening July 23 to Aug 8. The event has been a hot debate topic for months now, with some countries and ...

U.S. sprinter Justin Gatlin said he felt "beyond safe" thanks to the COVID-19 protocols he needed to follow on his visit to Japan to participate in an Olympics test event for athletics.

After an Olympic-record semifinal, South Carolina-born Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico demolished the women's 100m hurdles final Monday morning in Japan, delivering her nation its first women's ...

"The British Olympic Association (BOA) can confirm that six athletes and two staff members from the athletics team ... on their inbound flight on 15 July 2021," the BOA said in a statement.

The son of Guangdong farmers, Su set the Asian record of 9.83 at the 2020 Tokyo Games and became just the second Asian sprinter to reach an Olympic 100 final after Japan's Takayoshi Yoshioka at ...