While the eyes of the world will soon be upon Paris and the sporting competition, we take a look back at the last summer Olympics, which took place in the Japanese capital of Tokyo, and marked the ...

TOKYO, Calif. (KSEE) — Three consecutive Olympics have taken place in Asia, and the latest home of the games, Tokyo, was also the first for the continent in 1964. The people of Tokyo say the city is ...

Tokyo’s bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics wasn’t a sexy one. But the promise of efficiency, competence and high-tech wizardry was more than enough to convince members of the International Olympic ...

Members of the Japanese public donated their old electronic devices. What's gold is new again, so to speak. The new model for the medals that will be handed out at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics was unveiled ...

TOKYO — Japan's National Stadium was fan-less four years ago during the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics; zero atmosphere in the $1.4 billion, 60,000-seat venue for the globe's greatest track and field ...

TOKYO, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Nagasaki has abandoned its ambitions to host the 2020 Olympics after the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) rejected a joint bid with Hiroshima. Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue ...

Tokyos governor has warned that the bill for the citys 2020 Olympics could yet spiral out of control despite exhaustive efforts to rein in runaway costs. Governor Yuriko Koike said there was still a ...

TOKYO, August 7. /TASS/. Team ROC (the Russian Olympic Committee) players Vyacheslav Krasilnikov and Oleg Stoyanovsky took the silver of the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in men’s beach volleyball ...

MOSCOW, March 19. /TASS/. Four Russian female weightlifters, including multiple-time world champion Tatiana Kashirina, have qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Japan, Gennady Anikanov, the ...