The U.S. women have won eight of the 11 Olympic 5-on-5 basketball tournaments, including six straight gold medals. They're favored again in the Tokyo Games, and their Olympic victories sometimes feel ...

The Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics featured the lighting of the Olympic cauldron at the Tokyo Olympic Stadium by tennis star Naomi Osaka. The Olympic cauldron was lit by a torch, but the torch ...

U.S. Olympic marathoner Aliphine Tuliamuk said she never expected to be a new mom competing in the Olympics, and she also never expected to have to worry about whether she would be allowed to bring ...

The U.S. women's basketball team is attempting to win its seventh consecutive gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Games. But while the American women have dominated 5-on-5 basketball, the U.S. 3x3 women's ...

The Canadian track cyclist won gold in Tokyo in 2021. Four years later she is pushing for the podium once again—this time in the Winter Games.

Shigeko Kagawa, a 114-year-old retired physician from Nara Prefecture, has become Japan’s oldest living person, following the death of 114-year-old Miyoko Hiroyasu, according to Japan's Ministry of ...

The word "Olympics" is rooted in ancient Greece. In Greek mythology, the gods would descend from Mount Olympus into the town ...