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3. Tokyo 2020: The four new sports making their debut at Olympic Games  7NEWS
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TOKYO (AP) — Having trouble getting tickets for next year's Tokyo Olympics?

The heat is on as Tokyo faces extreme temperatures during test events a year out from the 2020 Olympic Games.

Sport climbing makes its Olympic debut at the Tokyo Games.

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 will take players 56 years back in time to the 1964 Summer Olympics with 8- and 16-bit versions of Nintendo ...

South Korea is considering making its own arrangements to feed its athletes at next year's Tokyo Olympics, citing concerns over the safety of food from ...

From club swinging to croquet, a range of unusual sports have appeared at the Olympics over the years, as historian Julian Humphrys explains.

Mark Pavelich, a Miracle on Ice star, reportedly beat a neighbor with a metal pole.

It will take an Act of Congress to help protect athletes and make sure sex abuse in U.S. Olympic sports never happens again.

With the Tokyo Olympics less than a year away, speculation is growing in Japan over who will be the final torchbearer to light the cauldron in the new Olympic ...

MIAMI (AP) — Men's Olympic soccer qualifying for North and Central America and the Caribbean will take place during a FIFA international match window from ...

U.S. figure skating coach Richard Callaghan, who led Tara Lipinski to the 1998 Olympic gold medal and Todd Eldredge to the 1996 world championship and six ...

MURRAY —After graduating from Murray State with an engineering-physics degree this past spring, MacKenzie Martin has decided to put her life on hold for a ...

Check out the full schedule for when sports start at Tokyo 2020.

DENVER — The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee has handed down 12-month probations to the athletes who protested on the medals stand at the Pan ...

Two athletes who protested the national anthem at a recent competition were placed on 12 months' probation. But stopping other competitors from making ...

'I thought: Is this what professional sports has come to? Is it even a professional sport if we can't make a living from it?' - CBC Sports Player's Own Voice.

The Tokyo Olympics feature the debut of karate, skateboarding, sport climbing and surfing.

The 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo are less than one year away: Here's what you need to know about the athlete hopefuls and new sports like skateboarding.

Double Olympic gold medallist Ester Ledecká has received the Czech Republic's highest sports award for her history-making performance at last year's Winter ...

The Colombian Olympic Committee and the University of Applied and Environmental Sciences in Bogotá are developing a research project entitled ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — A San Diego boxer who missed out on the 2016 Olympic games has her eyes set on 2020. Danyelle Wolf missed out on the 2016 ...

Should school be year-round? What is your favorite Olympic sport? Why can't the Morning Edition crew figure out these 'baffles?' It's all covered in this week's ...

David Rudisha is set to miss the world championships during a two-year break from competition.

GRAND MARAIS, Minn. (AP) - Mark Pavelich, a forward on the 1980 “Miracle on Ice” U.S. Olympic hockey team who went on to play for the New York Rangers ...

12-time Olympic medalist Ryan Lochte and women's 100m and 200m backstroke world record holder Regan Smith (age 17) headline NBC Sports' coverage of ...

A bill spurred by Larry Nassar's sex crimes and other mishandled abuse cases would allow Congress to fire the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee's entire ...

South African runner Caster Semenya emphatically said Wednesday she does not plan to retire despite a ruling that she cannot compete in the near future.

Mathew Fogarty said badminton's European elite made fun of him for playing professionally at age 59. That was three years ago. Fogarty still competes at the ...

The inclusion of unconventional sports in future Olympics is creating a new breed of aspiring medalist. Sergey Chernyshev, a break dancer known as ...

The star of Oscar-winning climbing documentary 'Free Solo' is looking forward to the sport's Olympic debut at Tokyo 2020, but the American admits he's "too old ...

There are going to be five new sports in the Olympics next summer. Get to know them before the torch is lit.

Top-ranked Katie Zaferes and other U.S. triathletes can punch their tickets for the 2020 Olympics in a test event in Tokyo.

Kelly Slater will participate in a mandatory event for Olympic qualification, joining a U.S. team that features the top-ranked man and woman in the world.

Rock climbing will make its debut as an Olympic sport during the Tokyo Games next summer.

Park City • An $11 million expansion announced Tuesday for Utah Olympic Park is as much about creating new generations of winter sports enthusiasts as it is ...

Simone Biles tied a 67-year-old record with her sixth U.S. all-around title.

Janja Garnbret retained her Combined world title on Tuesday (20th August) to confirm her status as the best women's sport climber on the planet. The Slovenian ...

Dalilah Muhammad broke the 16-year-old world record in the 400m hurdles at USATF Outdoors.

"It's definitely becoming more and more of a cultural thing again like it used to."

U.S. tennis player Amanda Anisimova withdrew from the U.S. Open after her father's sudden death.

Shaun White is strapping wheels to his snowboard and gearing up to compete for a spot in the 2020 Olympics debut of skateboarding.

Bowling may not be at Tokyo 2020, but it is at the 2019 Pan American Games, watch out for Jakob Butturff.

Mo Farah switched to full-time road running after earning four Olympic track titles.

Canadian canoeist Laurence Vincent Lapointe addresses the media Tuesday following her recent positive test for the muscle-building substance Ligandrol.

Amro Elgeziry qualified for the U.S. Olympic team in modern pentathlon.

By Greg Stutchbury WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Winning the Tokyo Olympics test event in Enoshima may have appeared a cakewalk for Rio gold medalists Peter ...

Artur Taymazov was stripped of his second Olympic gold medal for doping.

Ashley Wagner said John Coughlin, who killed himself in January, sexually assaulted her when she was 17.

TYLER, Texas (KETK) – The countdown to Tokyo 2020 Olympics starts today. The summer games are exactly one year away. To get in the spirit and show off ...

A thousand thoughts could have flashed through Sydney Richards' mind.

Race Imboden could face consequences from the USOPC for his podium protest.

Ryan Held swam the fastest-ever 100m freestyle in a U.S. pool at the national championships.

Fukushima, site of a partial nuclear meltdown after the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in 2011, will host softball and baseball events during ...

Allison Schmitt, an eight-time Olympic medalist, won the 200m freestyle at the U.S. Championships.

Dana Vollmer retired from swimming after earning three Olympic medals in Rio as a mom.

Meteorologist Danielle Banks says during the 2020 Summer Olympics, Fukushima will host two events. The events will be held about 45 miles from site of a ...

DINING DETAIL: It's time to take our weekly wander through the world of weirdness and chew on some news items, being very careful not to swallow. In New ...

Three members of the 2000 U.S. Olympic baseball team remember their gold-medal run.

Canoeist Laurence Vincent Lapointe is the latest Canadian Olympic medal hopeful to get caught up in a doping controversy. She has tested positive for the ...

Breaking, skateboarding, sport climbing and surfing have been provisionally included on the sports programme of the Olympic Games Paris 2024. The decision ...

Sally Pearson cited recent injuries in retiring from track and field.

George Morris was banned for life over allegations of sexual misconduct involving a minor.

Justin Gatlin, at 37, is still one of the world's fastest men.

NCAA women's soccer is set to kick off later this month, and an Ohio State player will be one of the top players to watch nationally when she takes the field ...

Five-time Olympic swimming gold medallist Nathan Adrian has named cycling cheat Lance Armstrong as his inspiration as he recovers from testicular cancer.

Ryan Lochte was banned 14 months after a social media blunder.

Sweden's women's hockey team, the only European team to dent the U.S.-Canada dominance in the Olympics, announced Friday it would boycott an upcoming ...

The U.S. champion tells us what to expect at the Olympic debut for sport climbing, and how the new Combined format makes it harder for athletes who are often ...

Andrew Wilson was the first U.S. winner at a Swimming World Cup stop in Singapore, while four other Americans earned medals.

U.S. breaststroke Lilly King rebounded from a disqualification in the 200m heats to win the 50m final.

Andy Murray's is shifting his comeback effort from doubles to singles, a decision that will keep him out of the U.S. Open.

The sting of Canada's World Cup disappointment has been replaced by the allure of another Olympic women's soccer medal for Christine Sinclair. Sinclair said ...

People in Japan are likely to enjoy fewer fireworks next summer due to the commitment of security personnel and resources to the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic ...

Allyson Felix races in her first meet since becoming a mom, live on NBC Sports.

Leo Manzano, a two-time Olympian, earned the first U.S. 1500m medal in 44 years.

While the women's team, improving with every tournament, remained undefeated in the four-nation tournament, the men's team exacted revenge on New ...

Des Linden, the 2018 Boston Marathon champion, headlines the U.S. field for the New York City Marathon.

Of all the words she never expected to hear during her remarkable career, perhaps these are the most unexpected of all: Simone Biles, uneven parallel bars ...

Great Britain win four medals on the first day of medal racing at the Olympic test event in Enoshima, Japan.

Aleksandra Miroslaw successfully defended her speed climbing World Championship title with an impressive performance in Hachioji on Saturday (17th August) ...

A lot of people don't know this, Michael Norman pointed out, but Norman, Christian Coleman and Noah Lyles were once all in the same race. It was the 200m ...

Paris, the 2024 host city, wants to reach young city-dwellers and make the Games more interactive with the proposed addition of these popular sports.

Paris 2024 today put forward its proposal to the IOC for new sports to be included on the Olympic programme, which included breaking, skateboarding, sport ...

Max Parrot, the Olympic slopestyle silver medalist, beat cancer seven months after his diagnosis.

Laurence Vincent-Lapointe of Trois-Rivieres, Que., will not compete at this week's canoe sprint world championships in Szeged, Hungary after failing an ...

The IOC Executive Board today supported the recommendation of the Olympic Programme Commission to put forward Paris 2024's proposal for new sports ...

Chinese swimmer Sun Yang will get the rare public trial he wants after an appeal by the World Anti-Doping Agency. The Court of Arbitration for Sport says the ...

Dina Asher-Smith underlines why is she seen as a World Championships medal contender with an impressive display in the 200m at the Birmingham Grand ...

The Tokyo Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (Tokyo 2020) has unveiled images of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic mascot, Miraitowa, in a wide variety of ...

From PUBG Mobile Game to Olympics: Indian Shooter Divyansh Panwar created a sensation by earning a quota place for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games by ...

In December 2018 hundreds of athletes gathered in Iceland to run a uniquely gruelling race - with one man's sights on a $1m prize.

Two-time world shot put champion David Storl says he will miss the track world championships with a back injury.

Get your diaries out – it's starting to feel very real: Tokyo 2020 today announced the order of events for each sporting session at next summer's Olympic Games.

Paris 2024 organizers have put forth its proposal to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for four sports to be included in that year's Summer Olympic ...

The IOC is a non-profit organisation, dedicated to using the revenue generated from the Olympic Games to assist athletes and develop sport worldwide.

People in Japan are likely to enjoy fewer firework displays next summer due to the commitment of security personnel and resources to the 2020 Olympic and P.

Less than two months after leading the Toronto Raptors to a historic first-ever NBA title, head coach Nick Nurse says he's ready to get back on the court for his ...

Wellington - New Zealand Rugby revealed on Thursday that no current All Blacks will represent their country in sevens at next year's Tokyo Olympics.