The Tokyo debacle has exposed an International Olympic Committee that disrespects the will of locals, brushes off inconvenient concerns of experts and prioritizes its profits over all else.

Tokyo has been chosen by the International Olympic Committee to host the 2020 Summer Games. In voting Saturday in Buenos Aires, the committee picked Tokyo over the two other contenders, Madrid and ...

LONDON -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the International Olympic Committee have agreed that the upcoming Tokyo Games "will be held by the summer of 2021," the prime minister's office ...

All spectators will be banned from the Tokyo venues at the 2020 Olympic Games, Japan’s Olympics Committee announced. Earlier today, Japan declared a coronavirus state of emergency for the ...

As questions about the Tokyo 2020 Olympics continue to swirl, a high-ranking member of the Japanese Olympic Committee revealed Tuesday that he has tested positive for coronavirus.

Thomas Bach, the president of the International Olympic Committee, played down growing doubts about the Games but without giving a guarantee. By Victor Mather and Motoko Rich With the coronavirus ...

Medal ceremonies will be held with various restrictions in place and medalists will put on their own medals, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said. The Tokyo Olympics will be held amid a ...

The Summer Olympics that had been scheduled to begin in Tokyo this July will instead take place almost exactly one year later, the International Olympic Committee says. The games were postponed ...

At a special meeting of the committee in Tokyo on Friday, Yoshiro Mori, 83, acknowledged that his remarks, to the effect that women's speaking time at Japanese Olympic Committee meetings should be ...

TOKYO — Bending to intense criticism from abroad and social media activism at home, the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee on Thursday appointed Seiko Hashimoto, one of Japan’s two female ...

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach said Hashimoto was "the perfect choice for this position." “With the appointment of a woman as President, the Tokyo 2020 Organising ...

The Tokyo 2020 organising committee will ask Japan's Olympics Minister Seiko Hashimoto - a woman who competed in seven Games as a skater and a cyclist - to be its new president following the ...