Tokyo Olympic CEO: Games next year may not be ‘conventional’
The CEO of next year's Tokyo Olympics says the postponed games might not look like what fans are accustomed to. Toshiro Muto says "the actual games we will have one year from now may not be the same conventional Olympic…
Iran’s only female Olympic medalist reportedly defects
Iran's only female Olympic medalist said she defected from the Islamic Republic in a blistering online letter that describes herself as “one of the millions of oppressed women in Iran.”…
Russia will appeal 4-year Olympic ban
Next year's Olympics in Tokyo will be the third consecutive edition of the games preceded by a legal battle over Russian doping issues.
Anti-doping panel recommends neutral status for Russia at Olympics
A key World Anti-Doping Agency panel has recommended Russian athletes be forced to compete as neutrals at next year's Olympics in Tokyo and other major events.
Paris wants to add four sports to its program, though the other three — skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing — will make Summer Games debuts in Tokyo next year.
In athletics, who defines a man and a woman? A court has ordered South African runner and Olympic gold medalist Caster Semenya to take drugs to suppress her naturally high testosterone levels if she wants to continue to compete. William…
The race came after a ruling that would require the South African star and other female athletes with high levels of natural testosterone to medically lower them to be eligible to compete in events ranging from 400 meters to the…
The sports world's highest court ruled female runners with unusually high testosterone must take medication to reduce their levels of the male sex hormone if they want to compete in certain event.
The World Anti-Doping Agency agreed to keep Russia's anti-doping operation in business after receiving much-sought-after lab data that could be used to prosecute hundreds of cheaters. But the decision came with a warning: Fool us again, and we can bar…
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