Summer Games

Top athletes everywhere improvised, finding ways to train even as the Summer Olympics were postponed a year because of the pandemic. One built a backyard pole vault runway, another installed a shot put ring, they ran through the streets, transformed garages into home gyms and planned to create bubbles to compete on the basketball court.

The United States dominates in terms of gold medals with nearly 1,030 of them won since the first game in Athens, but could the nation’s success at the Olympics be based around sending more athletes than their competitors?

The announcement comes on the heels of the Tokyo Olympics’ organizers banning spectators from the Summer Games.

The move comes after Kim Gaucher made an emotional plea via Instagram to have 3-month-old daughter Sophie travel with her to the Games

Serena Williams says she will not go to the Tokyo Olympics

The refugee team for the Tokyo Olympics has 29 athletes competing in 12 sports

Will the Tokyo Olympics open despite rising opposition and the pandemic

The IOC vice president in charge of the Tokyo Olympics says the games will open in just over two months even if the city and other parts of Japan are under a state of emergency because of rising COVID-19 cases

Japanese residents with tickets to the Tokyo Olympics may not know until weeks before the games open if they’ll be allowed to attend

This year’s uniforms were created with sustainability in mind

With just six months to go before the delayed 2020 Olympics is scheduled to open in Tokyo, organizers are denying reports of Japan shuttering the games for good.

The 2020 Tokyo Olympics, now set to be held in 2021, will be unlike any other. What will it take to make Olympians feel safe enough to compete in next year’s Summer Games?

These Olympians are fleet of foot, shockingly flexible and fearless on the high bar. It helps that they’re all teeny tiny cats. As the opening ceremony in Rio nears, about 90 furry paw-thletes over at the Hallmark Channel are ready for some action of their own in the very first Kitten Summer Games, to coincide with the start of the...

Patrick Dempsey will serve as the honorary captain for the U.S. cycling team at the Tokyo Olympics this summer, part of a unique working relationship between USA Cycling and the actor best known for his role on “Grey’s Anatomy

Tokyo put on a flashy fireworks display to mark the 6-months-to-go milestone for this year’s Olympics

Molly Solomon began her career at NBC Sports as a researcher for its Olympics coverage. Nearly 30 years later, she will lead its coverage. NBC announced Tuesday that it has promoted Solomon to executive producer and president of the network’s Olympics unit, becoming the first woman to be an executive producer for a network sports division.

Taekwondo specialist Pita Taufatofua is trying to mount an improbable Olympic comeback — not for the next Summer Games, but next month at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, despite representing a tiny tropical island nation in the South Pacific.

A Special Olympics Illinois athlete suffered a medical emergency while competing in the State Summer Games and died on Saturday, the organization announced. The athlete suffered a medical emergency during a swimming competition at the event, which took place in Normal. Lifeguards and EMT’s, who were already on scene in accordance with event protocols, immediately came to the athlete’s aid,...