Bangladesh swimmers Ariful Islam and Junayna Ahmed managed to put up their best performances in their respective 50m freestyle heat events at the Tokyo Olympics today. However, their individual timings were not enough to qualify for the next round.  

Novak Djokovic was beaten 1-6 6-3 6-1 by Germany's Alexander Zverev in the semi-finals of the men's singles at the Tokyo Games, dashing the Serbian's dream of winning his first singles gold medal and completing a Golden Slam.

Britain's top-dog status in track cycling will be under attack next week in the Izu Velodrome but two unlikely new cycling heroes emerged on Friday as Bethany Shriever and Kye Whyte claimed the country's first two Olympic medals in BMX.

A tearful Alessandra Perilli described San Marino as "a small country but very proud" after the shooter won its first Olympic medal ever with bronze in Tokyo.

Australian sprint star Emma McKeon was in shock Friday after blazing to the women's 100m freestyle Olympic gold medal in the second fastest time ever, admitting her emotions were "all over the place".

South African Tatjana Schoenmaker said it felt "so unreal" after she smashed the long-standing women's 200m breaststroke world record to win Olympic gold Thursday.

Hungarian Laszlo Cseh spent his entire career chasing Michael Phelps but on Friday he will bow out of the Olympics by at least matching the American’s record for longevity at the top.

“I tried my best but it was not enough,” were the first words from teenage archer Diya Siddique after her loss to Karyna Dziominskaya of Belarus in a tiebreaker in the women’s individual recurve event at the Tokyo Olympics yesterday.

Caeleb Dressel won the blue riband men’s 100m freestyle as the United States celebrated two gold medals in the Tokyo pool on Thursday while China’s women responded with two golds, and a world record, of their own in another thrilling day of swimming.

Two people attending the Tokyo Olympics from overseas have been admitted to hospital with COVID-19, a Tokyo 2020 spokesperson said on Thursday, as daily cases in the host city and Japan as a whole hit new highs.

Sunisa Lee claimed the coveted all-around gold medal many expected to see go to her United States team mate Simone Biles on Thursday, as the Tokyo Olympics gymnastics competition moved on without its biggest star.

American Caeleb Dressel equalled the Olympic record in the men's 100 metre butterfly heats on Thursday and compatriot Katie Ledecky qualified fastest in the women's 800m freestyle to set up another showdown with in-form Australian Ariarne Titmus.

Switzerland's Belinda Bencic became the first player to advance to the gold-medal match of the Olympics women's singles on Thursday, outlasting Kazakh Elena Rybakina 7-6(2), 4-6, 6-3 in a topsy-turvy semi-final.

Kimberly Daniels hadn't expected to transition until after the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, but after the year-long pandemic postponement, she is now the first openly transgender judge at a Games.

Zuzana Rehak Stefecekova of Slovakia won the women's trap gold medal in the Tokyo Olympics at the Asaka Shooting Range on Thursday.

Two-time world pole vault champion Sam Kendricks was ruled out of the Tokyo Games on Thursday after testing positive for coronavirus, the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee confirmed.

Teenage archer Diya Siddique bows down from women's individual recurve event of Tokyo Olympics after coming off as second-best to Karyna Dziominskaya of Belarus in tiebreaker in Japan this morning.

China's Shi Zhiyong broke his own world record to win the men's 73kg weightlifting event at the Olympics on Wednesday and claim a gold medal for the second Games in a row.

Defending champions Brazil advanced to the quarter-finals of the men’s Olympic soccer tournament after a 3-1 victory over Saudi Arabia on Wednesday helped them top Group D while Ivory Coast booked their berth by sending Germany home.

As a teenager training in Kabul, Refugee Olympic Team cyclist Masomah Ali Zada would sometimes get hit or pelted by stones by men shocked to see her unaccompanied on the streets.