Tokyo Olympic beach volleyball gold medalist Alix Klineman announced on social media she is retiring from the sport.

Angelique Kerber has eliminated Naomi Osaka 7-5, 6-3 in the first round of the Paris Olympics tennis competition.

Naomi Osaka is back on the tennis tour, back at a Summer Olympics and back at Roland Garros.

Patty Mills arrives at his fourth Olympic Games as Australia’s old man.

Three-time Olympic gold medalist Charlotte Dujardin of Britain has withdrawn from the Paris Games after a video emerged that the sport’s governing body says shows her “engaging in conduct contrary to the principles of horse welfare.”.

Kevin Durant practiced with the U.S. Olympic basketball team on Friday, a major step toward getting him back on track for the Paris Games that open next week.

Diana Taurasi joked after the Tokyo Olympics that she’d see everyone in Paris.

The founder of the modern Olympics and former IOC president, Pierre de Coubertin, once said women competing in the Games would be “impractical, uninteresting, unaesthetic and improper.”.

Afghan sprinter Kimia Yousofi is preparing to compete at her third Olympics after being selected for the Paris Games from her training base in Australia.

Olympic medal-winning gymnast MyKayla Skinner Harmer is drawing criticism for saying the U.S. Center for SafeSport is making it difficult for coaches to do their job.

The boxing governing body declared rogue by the International Olympic Committee says it will pay $50,000 in prize money to each gold medalist at the Paris Games.

Record-breaking 48-year-old gymnast Oksana Chusovitina says an injury has ended her attempt to qualify for what would have been her ninth Olympics.

Allisha Gray is glad to be back playing 3x3 with an eye towards being a member of the team at the Paris Olympics this summer.

Revelations of nearly two dozen Chinese swimmers whose positive doping tests went unpunished have sparked an intense flurry of accusations and legal threats between the World Anti-Doping Agency and the head of the U.S. drug-fighting organization.

Track and field is set to become the first sport to introduce prize money at the Olympics, with World Athletics saying Wednesday it would pay $50,000 to gold medalists in Paris.

Samantha Mewis has retired from soccer because of a knee injury that has sidelined her from the U.S. team since the Tokyo Olympics.

The International Gymnastics Federation has granted neutral status to 30 athletes and officials from Belarus allowing them to take part in international competitions.

U.S. Olympic long jumper Tara Davis-Woodhall has served a one-month suspension and had her national indoor title stripped after testing positive earlier this year for the psychoactive compound found in marijuana.

American and British boxing officials are among the leaders of a breakaway group which hopes to save boxing’s place at the Olympics.

American shot put medalist Raven Saunders has been suspended for 18 months for failing to show up for doping tests.

The Tokyo Olympic bid-rigging scandal has widened with Japanese advertising giant Dentsu and five other companies getting charged.

A contest that could define the 2024 Paris Olympics is playing out 18 months before medals are awarded.

Authorities are looking for three Olympic medals belonging to a member of the U.S. women’s volleyball team after they were stolen in a burglary.

A cap designed for Black swimmers’ natural hair that was banned from the Tokyo Olympics has been approved for competitive races.

The COVID-delayed Tokyo Olympics opened a year ago on July 23, 2021.

Back-to-back NCAA champion Randolph Ross has been booted from world championships about a month after officials could not locate him for an antidoping test.

Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi have been linked for two decades.

Allyson Felix was named to her 10th world championships team, where she will have a chance to run in the mixed relay event and add to her record medal collection.

The Olympic Refugee Foundation and the refugee Olympics team are the winners of this year’s Princess of Asturias Award for sports.

Han Xu feels much more comfortable in her second WNBA stint with the New York Liberty.

The AVP is heading back to the beach with a bunch of new teams and a lot more tournaments for them to figure things out.

Allyson Felix, who closed the Tokyo Games last year with more Olympic medals than any U.S. track and field athlete in history, says she will retire after the 2022 season.

Justin Verlander is one of the greatest pitchers of his generation with eight All-Star appearances, two Cy Young Awards, one MVP, one Rookie of the Year and a World Series title.

A person familiar with the situation says the Chicago Cubs and star Japanese outfielder Seiya Suzuki have agreed to an $85-million, five-year deal.

Somehow, summer 2021 has come to a close (hello, sad girl fall!), so we’re going to take a look back at all the major things that happened this summer that you probably already forgot about, because this summer went by way too fast.

USA Basketball will face Puerto Rico, Mexico and Cuba in the first round of qualifying for the 2023 Basketball World Cup.

The International Olympic Committee says Jacques Rogge, who led the organization as president for 12 years, has died.

Japan has expanded its coronavirus state of emergency for a second week in a row, adding eight more prefectures as a surge in infections fueled by the delta variant strains the country’s health care system.

If you really got into the Summer Olympics this year, and you’re missing the excitement or the nightly events, some good news: There’s a similar competition set to get underway -- starting today, actually.

Olympic bronze medalist Molly Seidel is one of several standout American women planning to run the New York City Marathon on Nov. 7.

In what was otherwise a rough two weeks in Tokyo for NBC Universal, viewers perked up a bit in the second week of the games when the U.S. team's performance did the same.

Two editions in its return to the Olympic program, golf is building momentum.

The LPGA Tour is two-thirds through the season and the South Koreans are not as dominant as they usually are.

Andy Murray has moved into the main draw of the U.S. Open after Stan Wawrinka's withdrawal.

The Americans won 113 medals at the Olympics.

Japan had its best Olympic production in every category at the just-completed Tokyo Olympics.

Over nine days at the near-empty Olympic Stadium, the women of track and field delivered a memorable show.

Sue Bird capped off her unblemished 17-year Olympics run with a record fifth gold medal.

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

NBC Universal persevered after a rough start to the Tokyo Olympics, and was rewarded with the type of picture it treasures on Saturday.

A Japanese team of All-Stars fulfilled a determined national mission to win the Olympic baseball gold medal for the first time, beating the United States 2-0 behind Munetaka Murakami’s third-inning home run.

Jessica Springsteen and the U.S. equestrian jumping team came up just short of Olympic gold, falling to Sweden in a jump off that still left the Americans with a record 10th medal in the event.

Israel’s Linoy Ashram has won the gold medal in the rhythmic gymnastics individual competition, ending Russia’s decades-long dominance in the sport.

The pandemic-delayed Tokyo Games finally come to a close after an exhausting, enlightening and sometimes enraging run.

The second to last day of competition at the Tokyo Olympics produced a gold medal bonanza for the United States.

With the gold medal in jeopardy, the U.S. knew where to turn to protect it.

The U.S. has won its third consecutive gold medal in women’s water polo, beating Spain 14-5 in the final at the Tokyo Olympics.

Was it the strangest Olympics ever, staged during a deadly global pandemic, with no fans.

Nelly Korda has given the Americans a sweep of gold medals in Olympic golf.

Nothing about the summer was easy for the U.S. men’s basketball team, and neither was the gold-medal game.

Olympic Games are expensive.

Peres Jepchirchir led a 1-2 Kenyan finish in the women’s marathon, withstanding the heat and humidity while running through the streets of Sapporo.

Day 15 of the Tokyo Games will feature the American women going for gold in basketball, volleyball and water polo.

Marcell Jacobs backed up his shocking 100-meter victory with another totally unexpected gold for Italy in the 4x100-meter relay at the Olympics.

Imagine Olympic swimming without the world’s top 100.

A sumo wrestler that may have spooked the horses has been knocked out of the Olympic equestrian ring.

For USA Basketball, some eras will end Saturday.

April Ross now has the complete set of Olympic beach volleyball medals.

Set the alarm for Day 14 of the Tokyo Games and watch Allyson Felix attempt to win a 10th track and field Olympic medal over breakfast.

Eddy Alvarez became only the third American to earn medals at both the Summer and Winter Olympics when the United States beat defending-champion South Korea 7-2 to gain a berth into this weekend’s gold medal game against host Japan.

A slow exchange left the American 4x100-meter relay team out of medal contention at the Olympics.

Sport climbing has made its Olympic debut, giving the world a chance to see just how physically demanding it can be.

The action on Day 13 of the Tokyo Games will feature track and field, with medals in the men’s 400-meter final, the men’s and women’s 4x100 relays and the women’s 400 meters.

The U.S. women’s gymnastics team pulled off a successful stay at the Tokyo Olympics even with Simone Biles taking a step back to focus on her mental health.

Wake up.

Breanna Stewart scored 20 of her 23 points in the first half to help the U.S. beat Australia 79-55 on Wednesday in the quarterfinals.

Coming into the Olympics, Alice Dearing made a huge impact in the debate over ways to make swimming a more diverse sport.

For most nights in Tokyo, NBC's prime time Olympics coverage is drawing about half the audience than the Games in Rio de Janeiro five years ago.

Riders say a life-size sumo wrestler positioned next to an obstacle on the Olympic equestrian course may have distracted several horses in qualifying for the individual jumping final.

The Cavaliers filled one of their biggest needs, acquiring veteran point guard Ricky Rubio from the Minnesota Timberwolves.

The competition has produced inspiring moments that have gotten the world’s attention and embodied the Olympic spirit.

Jessica Springsteen had no luck going solo in Tokyo.

Elaine Thompson-Herah of Jamaica won the 200-meter gold medal to complete her second straight Olympic sprint sweep.

Simone Biles returned to competition at the Tokyo Games on Tuesday and won a bronze medal in the balance beam.

The Olympics may be the last major soccer tournament for a few of the biggest stars on the U.S. women’s national team like forward Carli Lloyd.

The image of Communist China’s founding leader Mao Zedong has made an unscheduled appearance at the Tokyo Olympics.

Tokyo Olympians are exercising extraordinary discipline against the coronavirus.

Simone Biles will at last return to Olympic competition Tuesday on Day 11 of the Tokyo Games.

American gymnast Jade Carey's long road to the Olympics ended with gold.

The quest for gold medals is on track for the U.S. women’s basketball and volleyball teams after finishing at the top of their groups in pool play.

Poland has granted a visa to a Belarusian Olympic sprinter who said she feared for her safety and that her team’s officials tried to force her to fly home.

In an extraordinary Olympic Games where mental health has been front and center, acts of kindness are everywhere.

The word gymnastics is derived from the ancient Greek “gymnazein," meaning “to exercise naked.”.

World champion Sifan Hassan has made an incredible recovery from a fall at the final bell to win her 1,500-meter heat at the Olympics.

Japan’s government says a Belarus track sprinter is safe after she alleged her Olympic team tried to remove her from Japan in a dispute that led to a standoff at Tokyo’s main airport.

Evan Fournier and Nicolas Batum are going for gold, though they can’t forget about the green.

The U.S. and Spain played for Olympic gold in 2008 and 2012, then in the semifinals in 2016.

Sunisa Lee will have her carry-on stuffed with medals when she heads back to the United States.

At their halfway point, the Tokyo Olympics are still grappling with the fact that there are no crowds.

Caeleb Dressel and Emma McKeon earned milestone medals at the Olympic pool before Italian runner Marcell Jacobs was the surprising winner of the race to determine the fastest man in the world.