TOKYO (AP) — When the dust settles on the marquee venue for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, it could well be the most expensive sports stadium in the world. The latest cost estimate of 252 billion ...

Sue Bird was one of the flagbearers, sharing that role with baseball’s Eddy Alvarez. Bird is a five-time Olympian in women’s basketball. She remembers 2004 when the U.S. women’s basketball team got to ...

TOKYO — Japan's National Stadium was fan-less four years ago during the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics; zero atmosphere in the $1.4 billion, 60,000-seat venue for the globe's greatest track and field ...

Some Olympic venues are abandoned after the Games, but the main stadiums often get a second life as general sports arenas or concert venues.

TOKYO (Reuters) -Hundreds of athletes, including U.S. sprinter Justin Gatlin, participated in a test event at the Olympic Stadium on Sunday, as organisers fine-tuned operations and COVID-19 ...

The Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics featured the lighting of the Olympic cauldron at the Tokyo Olympic Stadium by tennis star Naomi Osaka. The Olympic cauldron was lit by a torch, but the torch ...

After scrapping the original architectural plan for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic stadium due to a ballooning cost estimate and ridicule over its resemblance to a bicycle helmet, officials selected a new ...

The decrease in emissions from flights has got to make a difference, right? The images of empty stadiums as athletes perform near-impossible feats at the Olympic Games in Tokyo is another sobering ...