Simone Biles thought 'world is going to hate me' after she left team final at Tokyo Games

The four-time Olympic gold medalist revealed what was going through her mind in the 2020 Summer Olympics on an episode of the "Call Her Daddy" podcast posted on Wednesday. Read More

Head of Tokyo Olympics again says games will not be canceled

Polls show as many as 80 percent in Japan oppose holding the Olympics during the ... that new cases surpassed 1,000. Tokyo hit 729, its highest total in more than two months. Read More

Tokyo Olympics: A success? A failure? And how to judge?

It will take something much more nuanced than those basic notions to assess the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics ... to the Olympics--even for those Japanese who oppose the Games. Read More

Get to know Tokyo

Tokyo was awarded the 2020 Games after ... including more than 6 million used cell phones. During every Olympics, the host nation always garners extra attention, and that will certainly be the case ... Read More

Biggest Upsets of the Tokyo Olympic Games

Coming into the Tokyo Games ... In the Olympic debut of mixed doubles table tennis, host nation Japan upset China’s top-seeded team to win the event’s first-ever gold medal. It marked the first time ... Read More

Tokyo Olympics

Katie Ledecky entered the Tokyo Olympics with outsized expectations and demonstrated how much faster she is five years after dominating the Rio Games. Stories from the Olympic Games, delivered ... Read More

Breakout stars of the Tokyo Olympic Games

Perhaps no victory at these games was deemed more improbable than that of Italian sprinter Lamont Marcell Jacobs, who won the first Olympic 100-meter dash ... in the race before 2021 – he ran a 9.80 ... Read More

Legends of the Games: the Most Dominant Competitors at the Tokyo Olympics

Pitting the world's greatest athletes against one another, the Olympics frequently feature fantastic matchups. Extra innings, overtimes, shoot-offs, jump-offs -- fulcrum moments of competition come ... Read More

How to watch and stream the Tokyo Paralympic Games on NBC - NBC Olympics

NBCUniversal will present a record 1,200 hours of programming for the Tokyo Paralympic Games, which take place Aug. 24 - Sept. 5, 2021. Those 1,200 hours will include more than 200 hours of television ... Read More

How to watch the Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo Olympic Games

This marks the first time NBC Olympics will broadcast an Opening Ceremony live in the morning. With Tokyo 13 hours ahead of the east coast of the United States, the Opening Ceremony begins at 8 p.m. Read More

Top Record-Breaking Moments of the Tokyo Olympic Games

The two-time reigning world champion took down Ukrainian Inessa Kravets' 26-year-old all-time best of 15.50m from 1995 in the final at the Tokyo Olympics, bettering it by more than a half-foot with an ... Read More

Athletes who can three-peat (or four-peat) at the Tokyo Olympics

She already has more gold medals than any other woman from Great Britain ... and Valegro (for Dujardin). At age 38, the Tokyo Games will be the fifth and final Olympic appearance for Lopez. As ... Read More