OLYMPIC GAMES

The presidents of Ukrainian and Russian Olympic committees fought together as teammates at the 1992 Barcelona Games and won a gold medal in fencing for the post-Soviet Unified Team.

A Belarusian track coach who tried to force a sprinter to return home from the Tokyo Olympics after she was critical of the team has been charged with breaching the sport’s integrity standards.

Sue Bird just knows how to win.

The German government has confirmed that families of 11 Israeli athletes killed by Palestinian militants at the 1972 Munich Olympics will receive a total of 28 million euros (dollars) in compensation.

The families of 11 Israeli athletes killed by Palestinian attackers at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich and the German government have reached a deal over the long-disputed amount of compensation.

Everything we know so far about table tennis at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.

Everything we know so far about shooting at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.

Everything we know so far about rowing at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.

Everything we know so far about skateboarding at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.

Get a look at a sport-by-sport schedules highlighting the most important competitions preceding the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.

The Closing Ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics on NBC and Peacock, as it happened via live updates and video.

Great Britain and Japan will face off Saturday night for the women's curling Olympic gold medal. Here's what to know about how both teams got here, and how to watch the game.

Thomas Krol from the Netherlands won the men's 1000m speed skating event for his first career Olympic gold medal at 29 years old.

Anna Shcherbakova won a stunning gold medal in women’s figure skating at the Beijing Games while Russian teammate Kamila Valieva tumbled all the way out of the medals after a mistake-filled end to her controversial Olympics.

While her 2022 Winter Olympics are over, Natalie Geisenberger has had an historic Games.

Germany's Francesco Friedrich looks to earn his country a seventh sliding sport gold medal at the 2022 Winter Games.

So athletes from countries where COVID-19 has raged can compete, China's Winter Games workforce is making a giant sacrifice.

See the live medal count for full medal standings and results from the 2022 Winter Olympics, updated in real-time throughout each competition day.

Mikaela Shiffrin took ninth in the super-G Friday in China. Given her first two Olympic races, it was a success. And if you listened closely to her interview afterword, you might pick up the sounds of the best female skier on earth putting herself back together.

Germany has swept the gold medals in luge’s four events at the Beijing Games.

Denmark earned its first-ever victory in a men's Olympic hockey game with a major upset over the Czechs at the 2022 Winter Games.

Results, updates and latest news from Day 5 of competition at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics on Wednesday, February 9.

Snowboarder Julia Marino and freestyle skier Jaelin Kauf delivered silver medals on Day 2 after the Americans were blanked on Day 1 of the Olympics.

The air went out of the sports world when Mikaela Shiffrin laid it down in Gate 7 Monday in China. With the slalom looming -- her specialty -- there's only one option: Re-focus and move forward.

Brittany Bowe and Ireen Wuest are strong contenders for the gold medal in the women's 1500m speed skating event.

Eric Staal is relishing the opportunity to captain Canada's men's hockey team at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Therese Johaug won the first gold medal of the Beijing Olympics in the women’s 15-kilometer cross-country skiathlon.

An inside look at what Olympians are doing upon their arrival at the Olympics Village for the 2022 Winter Games.

Vicky Persinger and Chris Plys will be representing Team USA in this year's mixed doubles Olympic curling event.

Not only was Johnson one of the greatest American athletes of all-time, but he also played a role in quelling a tragedy in U.S. history.

Natalie Geisenberger has made it official: She’s heading to the Beijing Games and seeking a third consecutive Olympic women’s luge gold medal.

China has accused the United States of violating the Olympic spirit after the Biden administration announced a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Games over human rights concerns.

Get to know figure skate Vincent Zhou as he pursues his second Olympic berth in 2022.

A brief overview of biathlon's history at the Winter Olympics since the 1960 Squaw Valley Games.

An overview of the competition formats for cross-country skiing at the 2022 Beijing Olympic Winter Games.

Learn about what's happened in the sport of skeleton since the 2018 Olympic Games.

Learn about what's happened in the sport of bobsled since the 2018 Olympic Games.

Learn about what's happened in the sport of luge since the PyeongChang Games.

Learn about the equipment used in luge at the Beijing Olympic Games.

Jamaican Elaine Thompson-Herah bested her gold-medal winning time in Tokyo at the Prefontaine Classic on Saturday, and Sha’Carri Richardson finished last in her return to the track after controversy.

The Olympic Games in Tokyo are coming to an end Sunday, but here in Virginia, it is all about the dogs.

Lamont Marcell Jacobs and Bobby Finke won big, while Naomi Osaka and Novak Djokovic left Tokyo early. These are the best underdog stories from the Tokyo Olympic Games.

Triathlon saw Norway's Kristian Blummenfelt take gold for the men, Bermuda's Flora Duffy win on the women's side. Great Britain proved they were the most complete triathlon team winning the inaugural mixed relay event.

The 2020 Tokyo Olympics featured some fierce volleyball competition; the games ultimately concluded with France taking the men's gold, while Team USA took the women's gold.

Every two years, when an Olympics convenes, its organizers harness billions of dollars to make sure the entire affair is tightly, carefully scripted.

Svetlana Romashina wins seventh gold with Russian Olympic Committee in artistic swimming team final.

Only two nations made it to the podium of every debuting sport in Tokyo - USA and Japan

The United States hasn’t hosted any Olympic Games since 2002, when Salt Lake City welcomed the world to the Winter Olympics, but man, there have certainly been some cities that have tried.

The Olympic Games is the field hockey’s biggest stage and a very strong field of national teams brought their best to Tokyo.

The number of countries that have won a medal at an Olympic Games has reached a historic level.

With teammate Joe Kovacs and New Zealand's Tom Walsh taking silver and bronze, the medal-winning trio's Tokyo finish repeats the exact podium order from Rio, the first time in Olympic history that's happened in an individual event at consecutive Games.

For skateboarders at the Tokyo Games, their participation in these Olympics has been about respect. And what better way to earn it but by showing off the determination, courage and skills the sport requires.

A Belarusian Olympic sprinter who had a public feud with officials from her team at the Tokyo Games says that they “made it clear” she would face punishment if she returned home to an autocratic government.

New Zealand's Lisa Carrington is the first female athlete to win three gold medals at consecutive Olympic Games in a single-seat boat, with a victory in the women's kayak single 200m.

Find out where to watch every minute of sport climbing competition at the Tokyo Olympics.

Dutchwoman Sifan Hassan hit the deck during her heat at 1500 meters Monday at Olympic Stadium, but she provided the type of moment the Olympics frequently provide when she got up, started running again, and caught everyone who'd passed her on the way to an emotional victory.

"Chinese Taipei and Hong Kong are two of our 206 national Olympic Committees. Fact," said IOC spokesperson Mark Adams.

Matt Ludwig’s Olympics journey lasted all of two days. It began in Akron, Ohio with a phone call on Wednesday night and ended on a pole vault mat in Tokyo on Friday.

Katie Ledecky won the women's 800-meter freestyle on Saturday in Tokyo, her final event of the Olympic Games

In Japan’s northern prefectures, these Pandemic Games represent a missed chance to tout restoration following the earthquake of 2011 and the ensuing tsunami and nuclear disaster that ravaged the area.

Catch up on the action from the Tokyo Aquatics Center on Day 7 of swimming at the Olympics.

Team USA's Caeleb Dressel broke the Olympic record in the 100m butterfly for his third Tokyo gold.

The U.S. Olympic mixed relay team has been reinstated after originally being disqualified and will compete in Saturday’s final.

Simone Biles is the best gymnast in history, but Suni Lee has been close behind, working. She made her moment count Thursday in Tokyo.

Four-time Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles sent shockwaves around the world by pulling out of two events in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to focus on her mental health.

Like the winds at the Enoshima Yacht Harbour, the sailing competitions at the Tokyo Games were a little slow to get going, but with the first medal races due to take place at the weekend the tempo is picking up, along with the wind and the waves.

Catch up on the action from the Tokyo Aquatics Center on Day 5 of swimming at the Olympics.

Latvia’s Karlis Lasmanis drained a shot from behind the arc to close the game and seal a gold-medal-winning 21-18 victory over the Russians in the debut of 3-on-3 basketball at the Olympics.

Turkmenistan's Polina Guryeva takes home silver in weightlifting, the nation's first ever Olympic medal.

Lydia Jacoby planned to attend the Tokyo 2020 Olympics last year -- as a fan. A year later, the teenager from Alaska an Olympic champion and one of the most compelling stories of the Tokyo Olympics.

Tonga's male flagbearer and 'shirtless sensation' Pita Taufatofua achieves a unique Olympic accomplishment.

At the Olympic Games, being first is usually a pretty big deal—win or lose. So, with that said, here are the first 10 firsts from the Tokyo Games

The first four sets of swimming medals at the Tokyo Olympics are on the line in the men’s 400m individual medley, men’s 400m freestyle, women’s 400m IM and women’s 4x100m relay

In today’s episode of The Podium, Roker banters with his friend and Today partner Craig Melvin as they reflect on magical Olympic Opening Ceremony memories from Atlanta, Beijing and other Games. They also discuss the heightened appeal and excitement delivered by live sports “in an era where so much is on demand.”

Japan marched last in the Opening Ceremony Parade of Nations as the host country. The iconic red and white flag was held higher than most thanks to Japan's tall flagbearer, Washington Wizards star Rui Hachimura.

The second largest American team in Olympic history makes its memorable walk at the Opening Ceremony of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.

Destiny has offered the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games a special calling. Now the question: How will we write their history?

Here's why countries may have appeared to be entering out of order during the Parade of Nations at the Olympics Opening Ceremony.

The Olympics are often billed as a slice of the globalized 21st-century world in miniature.

Find out where to watch every minute of rugby competition at the Tokyo Olympics.

The Nippon Budokan simply feels like a special place, even to those who don’t understand the astounding amount of sports and music history that has occurred under its elegant roof.

Brady Ellison and Mackenzie Brown led the way for the American men and women during the archery ranking round on Friday in Tokyo.

Tennis star Naomi Osaka has lit the cauldron at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Games, ending the flame’s long journey from Greece to these delayed Olympics.

The International Olympic Committee says it will now include images of Olympic soccer players taking a knee in its official highlights reels and social media channels.

A third athlete from the Czech Republic has tested positive for COVID-19 at the Tokyo Games.

U.S. track and field athletes bound for an empty stadium in Tokyo are mentally preparing to compete without the extra boost that a crowd can provide.

Jill Biden is in Tokyo on her first solo international trip as first lady.

Find out how to watch every pitch of the Tokyo Olympics softball tournament.

Katie Ledecky, Andy Murray and Lisa Carrington are a few of the athletes vying for a third straight gold medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

A youth-laden squad was named as the United States men’s water polo team for the Tokyo Olympics Friday.

Twelve-time Olympic medalist Ryan Lochte is one race away from qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics, potentially his fifth Games.

Japan has announced the easing of a coronavirus state of emergency in Tokyo and six other areas from next week, with new daily cases falling just as the country begins final preparations for the Olympics starting in just over a month.

With his competitive career in the rearview mirror, 28-time Olympic medalist Michael Phelps is taking on a new role at the Olympic Swimming Trials: a spectator. After competing in 4 historic Olympic Games, winning 4 Olympic records, and setting 8 world records, Phelps has officially traded in his wetsuit for a seat in the stands.

The president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee has hinted that fans may be barred from venues when the games open in just under two months.

The head of the U_S_ Olympic and Paralympic Committee is telling Congress that a boycott of the Beijing Olympics next year will not solve any geopolitical issues with China and will only place athletes training for the games under a “cloud of uncertainty.”.

A full-page newspaper ad in Japan has condemned the government for forcing people to endure the pandemic without vaccines.

Tokyo and Japan’s second largest metropolitan area of Osaka are coming under emergency orders aimed at stemming surging cases of the coronavirus.

(AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, file)LAUSANNE – With Russia’s name banned from the next two Olympics, the country's team and athletes will be officially branded as “ROC,” the International Olympic Committee said Friday. The team name — an acronym for Russian Olympic Committee — has been agreed on by the IOC and the World Anti-Doping Agency, which has accused the country of running a state-backed doping program. Russia’s team name, flag and national anthem were banned from this year’s Tokyo Olympics and the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. The Russian team flag in Tokyo and Beijing will be the ROC symbol — an Olympic flame in the white, blue and red stripes of the national flag above the five Olympic rings. “The Russian Olympic Committee will submit a proposed musical score to be played for all ceremonies,” the IOC said.

WADA had proposed a four-year ban for Russia for manipulating potentially inculpatory data it held in its Moscow lab for years before handing it over to investigators early in 2019. Still, CAS called for more lenient terms than WADA wanted, lowering the burden for Russian athletes to gain eligibility to compete as neutrals at the upcoming games in Tokyo and Beijing and softening a proposed ban on Russian government officials. The panel said it cut the sanction in part because WADA only ever intended the ban to include one Summer and one Winter Olympics. For instance, one of Russia's biggest victories was the loosening of conditions for Russian athletes to compete as neutrals. WADA had insisted athletes be able to prove they hadn't been implicated in Russia's non-compliance.

FILE - In this Nov. 28, 2019 file photo Olympic Rings and a model of Misha the Bear Cub, the mascot of the Moscow 1980 Olympic Games, left, are seen in the yard of Russian Olympic Committee building in Moscow, Russia. The Court of Arbitration for Sport judges will start on Monday Nov. 2, 2020, hearing evidence about a manipulated database from the Moscow testing laboratory. The case centers on a Moscow testing laboratory database that was long sealed by Russian state authorities before being handed over to WADA investigators last year. The Russian anti-doping agency has not accepted being ruled non-compliant last December, nor accepted a slate of punishments proposed by WADA’s executive committee. Russian officials have denied wrongdoing and blamed a western conspiracy to stop Russian athletes competing at major sports events.