The Tokyo 2020 Summer Games Organizing Committee confirmed that the winner of the official mascot project will receive a million yen (about 34,000 zlotys) prize, the Japanese media reported. The best work will be selected from among the finalists.more

The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) have announced that a national competition will take place to decide the Games' official mascots.more

Gold medals awarded to athletes at the Rio Olympic Games have been sent back to their makers due to the metal badges of honor developing rust and seemingly unsightly blemishes.more

Alexander Doba, after a five-day stint in Barnegat Bay, New Jersey, stormed off on the open ocean on Tuesday after a glass of whiskey bribed Neptune. The 70-year-old kayaker continues his third transatlantic expedition.more

Olympic silver medal-winning speed skater Chris Creveling has been banned for four years after testing positive for testosterone-booster clomiphene.more

Serena Willliams is among 46 Olympians and Paralympians appointed to the Los Angeles 2024 Athletes' Advisory Commissionmore

Samoa's first Olympic medallist, Ele Opeloge, has finally been presented with her silver medal from the Olympics' weightlifting competition held in Beijing nine years ago.more

The disqualification means they are stripped from London 2012's records. Valyukevich, having come in eighth, will also have to return a diploma she received for her finish.more

The Swiss Olympic committee's executive board has voted to back Sion's bid to host the 2026 Winter Olympics, officials said on Tuesday.more

Jackson Follmann, the former goalkeeper of Chapecoense soccer squad, was one of the six survivors of the plane crash in Columbia.more

North Korea will send a team to next year's Winter Olympics in neighboring South Korea, the country's International Olympic Committee (IOC) member has said.more

London 2012 gold medallist Mariya Savinova has been stripped of her 800m title and banned until 2019. The Russian has had all her results from July 2010 to August 2013 annulled after being found guilty of doping.more

The International Olympic Committee after analyzing the cases of violations of anti-doping rules by taking part in the Olympics in London in 2012 in weightlifting in the category of 94 kg has decided that Tomasz Zielinski came in third position.more

Polish Television on the basis of sub-licenses have been granted exclusive rights to broadcast the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang (2018) and summer in Tokyo (2020) in open channels and exclusive online. more

A 2024 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles would feature a groundbreaking opening ceremony using not only the Memorial Coliseum but also a new state-of-the-art NFL stadium. The group backing Los Angeles' bid announced Monday they believe the plan, which would be a first for the Games, would attract "the largest in-stadium, citywide and TV audiences in Olympic ceremonies history."more

Almost five months after the Rio de Janeiro Olympics ended, another venue is struggling to find a use.more

HE'S most remembered for the oily, buffed-up body that set tongues wagging at Rio 2016, but now Tongan Pita Taufatofua plans to make a name for himself on an entirely different playing field.more

Yana Alexeyevna Kudryavtseva is a retired Russian individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2016 Olympic All-around silver medalist,more

Nearly 3 months after the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, hundreds of workers still haven't been paid and are planning to sue the local organizing committee to get their money.more

Olympic champion Mack Horton has thanked an anonymous spectator who potentially saved his life by noticing an abnormal mole on his chest. more

Britain's Olympic and Paralympic stars have been honoured with a celebration in London's Trafalgar Square. It follows the victory parade in Manchester on Monday when thousands of supporters lined the streets to cheer on the victorious athletes.more

Poland's Magdalena Fularczyk-Kozlowska, who won gold in Rio rowing competitons said that people looked at her as veteran.more

Russian high jumper Anna Chicherova was officially stripped of her 2008 Beijing Olympics bronze medal after she tested positive for banned substances in re-tests of samples, the International Olympic Committee said on Thursday.more

In an interview with Yahoo Sport, Olympic Gold Medal winner, Nick Skelton explained why he turned down (once) a 15 million Euro offer for his Olympic horse, Big Star. Britain's oldest gold medallist galloped to victory at the latest Games despite two knee operations, a hip replacement and a broken neck - all at the age of 58.more

Belarusian who marched with Russian flag got flat in Moscow. Andrei Fomochkin made political gesture at opening ceremony in Rio.more