The secretary general of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) Rajeev Mehta has said the country's record medal tally at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics "is only the beginning" as focus turns towards future Games.

Olympic title since Beijing 2008.Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra was the nation's first medallist in athletics

ended on a sweeter note, with our brave athlete Neeraj Chopra bringing home our first gold medal in athletics

The Hong Kong Paralympic Committee & Sports Association for the Physically Disabled (HKPC&SAPD) has officially selected 24 athletes for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, led by experienced wheelchair fencer Alison Yu Chui-yee.

for the Games.Hong Kong is set to compete in eight sports at Tokyo 2020 including archery, fencing, athletics

Do not let Sunday’s Closing Ceremony, with its two renditions of the Kenyan Anthem, in honour of marathon winners Peres Jepchirchir and Eliud Kipchoge, fool you.

the source of its Olympic medals.This sport is, of course, athletics.At both Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, athletics

single Olympic sport.Kenya won 10 medals - more than any other African country - but all 10 came in athletics

Overdependence on few events like athletics," he listed as a second factor behind Africa’s performance

at Tokyo.He went on: "Many African countries participate in athletics, so they leave very little room

Some judicious, carefully-thought-through realignment of this "overdependence" on athletics hence appears

United States President Joe Biden has signed an Executive Order imposing sanctions against the National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus (NOCRB), as the US seeks to punish the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, for his "ongoing assault against the democratic aspirations and human rights of the Belarusian people".

refused to return to Minsk, ultimately being granted a diplomatic visa and safe passage to Poland.Belarus athletics

Defected sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya is auctioning her Minsk 2019 European Games silver medal to raise funds to free athletes in Belarus under the regime of the Lukashenko Government.

Hanna Mikhailava and Krystsina Muliarchyk were removed from the Belarus team for Tokyo 2020 by the Athletics

United States finished top of the Summer Olympics medal table for the third consecutive Games after triumphs on the final day of Tokyo 2020 saw the nation overtake China.

with 11 gold medals, as well as 10 silver and nine bronze.The US also secured seven gold medals in athletics

Bad weather put paid to plans to fly a giant Paris 2024 flag from the Eiffel Tower during the Olympic Handover Ceremony from Tokyo.

ImagesFlautist Sylvia Careddu performed the first notes from the roof of the stadium which will stage athletics

The Pakistan Olympic Association (POA) has worked with Daraz - part of the Alibaba Group, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Olympic partner - during the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, with the company acting as the governing body's official digital partner for the Games.

.At the Games, Pakistan had 10 athletes competing, but won no medals.The country was represented in athletics

Proceeds from the upcoming Charity Classic Golf Tournament at Coral Ocean Golf Resort in Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands are set to go towards the hosting of the 2022 Pacific Mini Games.

2005 competition in Palau.Including golf, there is set to be a total of nine sports at the event - athletics

The end of an Olympics is always poignant. Whether it’s been a triumph or a torment, or a mixture of both, there is an emptiness once it’s over.

But the World Athletics Championships can – and they surely must, as soon as is practicable.Eugene have

2023 and 2025 looks as if it will be Africa’s first turn to host, especially if this month’s World Athletics

French marathon runner Morhad Amdouni provoked widespread anger today for deliberately knocking over an entire row of water bottles at one of the hydration stations on the Olympic marathon course in Sapporo before grabbing the last one for himself.

European Championships in Berlin, finished 10th in the men’s 10,000 metres here on the opening day of the athletics

The Olympic Flame dies here in Tokyo after an Olympic Games that have, for all sorts of reasons, been like no other.

At the 1964 Games, women took part in athletics, swimming, diving, equestrianism, fencing and gymnastics

events in rowing and cycling were not included until 1976 and hockey had to wait until 1980.At the athletics

These included Bach and current World Athletics President Sebastian Coe, who both took to the stage to

IOC President Thomas Bach, left, and World Athletics President Sebastian Coe were among a group of high

Russia has announced it will be taking 241 athletes to the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo, its largest ever delegation for the event, as it makes its return to the event after missing Rio 2016. 

table, behind ChinaThey won a total of 102 medals, including 36 gold.Their most successful sport was athletics

After all the words written about Tokyo 2020, particularly over the past 18 months during the pandemic, it seems remarkable to be at the end of the Olympic Games.

Tamberi and Qatar’s Mutaz Essa Barshim after sharing men’s high jump gold.It was not a bad showing from athletics

Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge today became the third man to make a successful defence of the Olympic marathon title after breaking clear of the field with 12 of the 42.195 kilometres remaining and winning in 2 hours  08min 38sec in a race held in Sapporo, supposedly to help runners escape the worst of the heat several hundred kilometres away in Tokyo.