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Rio silver medallist Hidilyn Diaz sets two Olympic records as she fulfills the Philippines’s 97-year quest to win gold.

Momiji Nishiya has become the country’s youngest gold medal winner at 13.

Pakistan has won a record four hockey World Cups but is now missing from its second successive Olympic Games.

France’s 83-76 victory was the first Olympic men’s basketball loss for Team USA since 2004.

The teenager squeaked into the final by 14-hundredths of a second, landing him in the far outside lane.

Ali scores brace for Qatar while holders Mexico thrash Honduras to book their place in the last-four.

Alizadeh won her first three taekwondo bouts but lost the next two to finish fourth for the Refugee Olympic Team.

Brazil’s Italo Ferreira and the US’s Carissa Moore emerge victorious in the first surfing heats at the Tokyo Games.

Some 132 people accredited to the Summer Games have tested positive for COVID since July 1.

Ohio MLB team’s name change comes after decades of protests by Native American groups calling it a harmful stereotype.

Opening ceremony marks beginning of summer games delayed for a year and held under unprecedented restrictions.

Shaheen, who was born in Afghanistan but grew up in Pakistan, will be part of the Refugee Olympic Team at Tokyo 2020.

Since being awarded the Games in 2013, Japan has endured a backlash over costs, scandals and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Organisers say Kentaro Kobayashi was dismissed because of comments in 1998 that made fun of the Holocaust.