Olympic Games

The one year delay of the Tokyo Olympic Games was devastating for the athletes who had been training all their lives for 2020. The most decorated Olympian of all time, Michael Phelps, discussed the mental challenges these athletes have faced, and how he would have responded himself.

Swimming legend Michael Phelps is working with Gen Z community members to make a positive impact around the world through Colgate’s Optimism Project. The Olympian athlete talked to LX News about how he’s learned to use the power of positivity to overcome challenges in his own life and career.

Breakdancing has been confirmed as an official Olympic sport

The International Olympic Committee announced that breakdancing will be an Olympic event at the 2024 Summer Games in Paris.

The 42 venues for next year’s delayed Tokyo Olympics have been secured and the competition schedule will remain almost identical to the one that would have been used this year

Alysia Montano, an Olympic runner and mother of two, talked to The New York Times about her struggle to maintain her career and her sponsorship with Nike during her pregnancy. The system should stop treating pregnancy like an injury, she says.

The head of the Tokyo Olympics says 80% of the facilities needed for next year’s games have “basic approval” to be used

Tianna Bartoletta, a track and field star with three gold medals, says IOC Rule 50, which prohibits athletes from political protests like kneeling or raising a fist, is wrong for these times.

Olympic pole vaulting silver medalist Sandi Morris didn’t have a place to practice and plenty of down time due to the coronavirus pandemic

About 6,500 athletes who already have earned their spots in the Tokyo Olympics are in for 2021

The leader of the IOC’s coordination commission for the Tokyo Olympics says there is no May deadline to cancel the games and he remains confident the event will go ahead despite sports coming to a virtual standstill globally amid the coronavirus epidemic

The Olympic rings have arrived in Tokyo. They sailed into Tokyo Bay on a barge and will stay there until the Olympics open on July 24 and close on August 9.

Nine years after “Fukushima” became synonymous with nuclear disaster, the area will help kick off the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo by hosting the opening ceremony’s torch relay near its devastated power plant.

Olympic athletes have been told which protests will not be allowed at the 2020 Tokyo Games. That means no taking a knee and no political hand gestures. The IOC Athletes’ Commission has published a three-page guidance document after consulting with competitors. Athletes wanted clarity about how a long-standing ban on political protests in venues would apply in practice. Political opinions...

Tokyo 2020 is not going to be your grandparents’ Olympic Games. When the International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed five new sports were to be included in the Tokyo 2020 Games, it was a clear signal the organization was making a concerted effort to embrace youth culture. To that end skateboarding, surfing, sports climbing and karate, as well as the return...

Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was grilled by members of Congress after her plan to slash all federal funding of the Special Olympics. News4’s Meagan Fitzgerald spoke with a brother and sister who would be “devastated” if the program was defunded.

Getting hip to breakdancing’s appeal with young audiences, organizers of the 2024 Paris Olympics want the dance sport that spread from New York in the 1970s to become a medal event at the games.

Raisman in a Twitter post says “I survived two Olympic Games and 19 years of gymnastics without ever breaking a bone … the stairs got me … I fell and broke my elbow.”

Coinciding with the 54th anniversary of the opening of the Olympic Games Tokyo 1964, NBC Olympics Wednesday unveiled the logo for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.