International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach will not carry the Olympic Torch this week as it completes its 121 day journey to Tokyo 2020.

A multi-lingual announcement system has been installed at 12 Tokyo 2020 venues here.

South African footballers Thabiso Monyane and Kamohelo Mahlatsi have become the first athletes to test positive for COVID-19 at the Olympic Village for the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games here.

South Korea's Ryu Seung-min has become the first International Olympic Committee (IOC) member to test positive for COVID-19 in Japan prior to to the start of Tokyo 2020. 

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics is to follow the example of other sport during the pandemic by using piped in crowd noise to compensate for the lack of spectators.

Germany's Olympic football team walked off the pitch with five minutes left of their warm-up fixture with fellow Tokyo 2020 side Honduras after alleging that one of their players suffered racial abuse.

One-hundred-year-old Hungarian gymnastics gold medallist Agnes Keleti and 13-year-old Olympic skateboard debutant Sky Brown have been brought together in What Agnes Saw - a new short film released by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as part of their "Stronger Together" campaign.

South Korea’s Olympic team were told to remove banners hung on balconies at the Athletes’ Village here in Tokyo after its message upset officials from a far-right Japanese political party.

New Zealand has pledged to protect weightlifter Laurel Hubbard from the intense international attention she will likely be under when competing here at Tokyo 2020.

An official connected to the delayed Olympic Games here has become the first resident of the Olympic Village to test positive for COVID-19.

Leading Japanese Reconstruction Agency official Yasuyuki Kobayashi has insisted that the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics will still play a part in helping Japan recover from the impact of the devastating tsunami, earthquake and nuclear meltdown at Fukushima in March 2011.

Tonga’s Pita Taufatofua has claimed his aim was never to achieve fame as he prepares for a third Olympic Games in five years at Tokyo 2020.

Organisers of the delayed Olympic Games here will provide their final update to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board when it holds its first in-person meeting since the COVID-19 pandemic hit tomorrow.

Bridgestone has outlined its support of the Olympic Games here with the world’s largest tire and rubber manufacturer vowing to support safe, smooth and sustainable transport around the host city.

United Nations secretary general António Guterres has welcomed the start of the Olympic Truce, one week before the Tokyo 2020 Opening Ceremony here.