Tokyo

Blind long jumper Lex Gillette is chasing after Paralympic gold in Tokyo after four straight silver medals. Gillette took a moment to reflect on his career.

About 100 of the 613 U.S. athletes descending on Tokyo for the Olympics are unvaccinated, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee’s medical chief just before the Opening Ceremony.

American swimmer Becca Meyers has pulled out of the Paralympics because she says the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee won’t let her bring her mother to Tokyo as her personal care assistant.

During the opening ceremony, the USA OlympicTeam attire will includes slim blue denim pants and a flag-print scarf, along with striped belts made of recycled plastic water bottles.

The governor of Tokyo is talking about the possibility of using the under-construction Olympic Athletes Village as a temporary hospital for coronavirus patients.

The Olympic cauldron used in the 1996 Games in Atlanta is scheduled to be publicly lit again for the first time in over two decades on Saturday.

For the first time, a woman has been chosen to launch the torch relay for the 2020 Tokyo Games at the birthplace of the ancient Olympics in Greece.

The dozens of homeless people sleeping in shuttered Tokyo subway stations worry that with Japan's image at stake authorities will force them to move ahead of the Olympics.

Tokyo's Olympics are the hardest ticket to find — particularly in Japan. There were 23 million tickets requested in the latest lottery, But 1 million available.

Tokyo's new National Stadium is 90% completed with the opening of the Olympics just over a year away. Media were given a glimpse inside the $1.25 billion stadium.