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Clarisse Agbegnenou of France celebrates after winning her match against a disappointed Miku Takaichi of Japan during the judo mixed team final at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 6, 2026
Â鶹´«Ã½ winning sports tradition shouldn¡¯t include abuse
Japan needs to establish an independent Safe Sport Center to address abuse in athletics and ensure that recent legal reforms translate into meaningful protections for athletes.
Russian athletes run during the women's 100-meter hurdles event at the National Athletics Championships in Yekaterinburg, Russia, on Wednesday.
MORE SPORTS
Jul 30, 2026
Russian athletes falling behind rivals amid ongoing exile from world athletics
Russia last competed at an Olympics under its own flag at the 2016 Rio Games.
India's Varun Chakravarthy (left) is bowled out by England's Adil Rashid during their T20 international match at Trent Bridge Cricket Ground in Nottingham, England, on July 7.
OLYMPICS / Cricket
Jul 28, 2026
How cricket could become the IOC¡¯s gateway to India
Cricket offers the International Olympic Committee something no recent addition has: direct access to a fan base of more than 2 billion people.
Kristian Gkolomeev of Greece poses after setting a world record of 21.81 seconds in the men's 50-meter freestyle at the Enhanced Games in Las Vegas on May 24.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 27, 2026
Games that allow athletes to use drugs that boost performance
One justification for the Enhanced Games was that we would learn how to surpass the biological limits of human performance.
The logo of the Russian Olympic Committee is seen on the window of its headquarters in Moscow on December 17, 2020.
OLYMPICS
Jul 16, 2026
IOC defends decision to ease restrictions on Russian Olympic Committee
The IOC said the decision was provisional and did ?not signal a broader change in ?its position toward Russia.
International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry speaks during a news conference in Ecublens, Switzerland, on June 24.
OLYMPICS
Jul 9, 2026
International Olympic Committee eases restrictions on Russia
The move will see Russian athletes back in many international competitions including Los Angeles Olympic qualifiers
Marta Kostyuk reacts during her quarterfinal match against Jasmine Paolini at Wimbledon in London on Wednesday.
TENNIS
Jul 9, 2026
Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk slams IOC move to lift Russia¡¯s suspension from Olympics
¡°I just want to go ?out there and hopefully beat every single Russian I play in the Olympics, and that¡¯s it,¡± Kostyuk said.
The cauldron at LA Memorial Coliseum is lit ahead of the ticket registration launch on Jan. 13.
OLYMPICS
Jun 11, 2026
LA 2028 working to avoid repeat of World Cup visa issues
IOC sports director Pierre Ducrey said there were dedicated people in the ?organizing committee working on the matter.
The Olympic rings are displayed in front of the the Olympic House in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Wednesday.
OLYMPICS
May 8, 2026
International Olympic Committee lifts all restrictions on Belarusian athletes
The IOC had recommended that Russian and Belarusian athletes and officials be banned from events since 2022 following Russia¡¯s invasion of Ukraine.
The Olympic rings are pictured outside the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne, Switzerland, March 26.
OLYMPICS
Apr 2, 2026
Ukraine wants IOC to examine ¡®neutral¡¯ status of Russian athletes
The IOC allowed a limited number of athletes from Russia and Belarus ?to compete at the 2024 Paris Olympics and the 2026 ?Milano Cortina?Winter ?Games with no flags or anthems.
South Africa's Caster Semenya leads the field in the women's 800-meter race during a Diamond League event in Doha in 2019.
OLYMPICS
Mar 30, 2026
Caster Semenya labels IOC stance on eligibility a disrespect to women
The IOC?reinstated genetic testing to determine female sex on Thursday.
The Olympic rings are pictured during an International Olympic Committee executive board meeting at the Olympic House in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Thursday.
OLYMPICS
Mar 27, 2026
Transgender athletes barred from female category events at Olympics
All athletes wanting to qualify or take part in female category events from the LA2028 Olympics onwards will have ?to undergo ?an SRY gene test to determine their eligibility.
Eric Ciotti salutes his supporters after winning the second round of mayoral elections in Nice, France on Sunday.
OLYMPICS
Mar 25, 2026
New Nice mayor poses a ¡®real problem¡¯ for 2030 Winter Olympics
Eric Ciotti wants the ice hockey to be moved from the stadium of the city¡¯s football club and to cancel the organizers¡¯ plans to build a skating arena.
The Olympic rings in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, last month.
OLYMPICS
Mar 18, 2026
IOC urged to drop reported gender test plans for female athletes
The IOC has long declined to apply any universal rule on transgender participation ?and in 2021 instructed international federations to ?come up with their own rules.
The U.S. and Switzerland compete in women's ice hockey during the 2026 Winter Olympics at Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena, one of the venues in Milan, Italy's commercial capital.
OLYMPICS
Feb 20, 2026
Italy¡¯s decentralized Milano Cortina Games offer glimpse of Olympics¡¯ future
But whether it works as a model going forward is another matter.
Ukraine's Vladyslav Heraskevych is seen during a training session in Cortina d'Ampezzo on Tuesday wearing a helmet depicting Ukrainian athletes killed during Russia's invasion of the nation.
OLYMPICS / Skeleton
Feb 13, 2026
Volodymyr Zelenskyy blasts IOC after Ukrainian banned for helmet honoring war victims
The International Olympic Committee said Heraskevych had failed ¡°to adhere to the IOC athlete expression guidelines.¡±
Ukraine skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych holds his helmet, which depicts victims of his country's war with Russia, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, on Thursday.
OLYMPICS / Skeleton
Feb 12, 2026
Ukraine skeleton racer Heraskevych disqualified from Olympics over memorial helmet
The IOC said he had been kicked out of the Milano Cortina Games ¡°after refusing to adhere to the IOC athlete expression guidelines.¡±
Ukraine's Vladyslav Heraskevych takes part in a skeleton training session at Cortina Sliding Centre in Cortina d'Ampezzo on Wednesday.
OLYMPICS / Skeleton
Feb 12, 2026
IOC ¡®begs¡¯ Ukrainian to race without helmet that honors countrymen killed in war
The athlete, however, remained defiant after a meeting between ?the two sides on Wednesday afternoon failed to break the impasse.
The Olympic rings outside Team USA's accommodation at the athletes' village in Milan on Tuesday.
OLYMPICS
Feb 5, 2026
IOC hoping fans won¡¯t jeer U.S. team or officials during opening ceremony
Italian politicians have strongly criticized the presence of ICE agents in the country, set to accompany the U.S. State Department¡¯s Diplomatic Security Service.
International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry (center) speaks during a news conference in Milan on Sunday.
OLYMPICS
Feb 2, 2026
IOC president ¡®sad¡¯ about ICE and Casey Wasserman ¡®distractions¡¯ before Olympics
¡°I think anything that is distracting from these Games is sad, right?¡± Coventry said, speaking during?a news conference five days ahead of Friday¡¯s opening ceremony.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
Yasukuni Shrine introduces ban on military attire and cosplay
People gather in front of thousands of lanterns on display at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on July 15 during the Mitama Matsuri, one of the capital's largest summer o-Bon festivals.
Many Indonesians named after Japanese anime characters
Some people in Indonesia are named Doraemon, the name of a lead character of the blockbuster anime series with the same title.
Strong wind and heavy rain forecast as tropical storm approaches Japan
Tropical Storm Chan-hom is expected to make landfall in northern Kanto between late Tuesday and early Wednesday.
Severe tropical storm Chan-hom makes landfall near Tokyo
Severe Tropical Storm Chan-hom made landfall around Ibaraki Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Tuesday night.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.
Â鶹´«Ã½ brewers experiment with a secret ingredient: music
At Smoke Craft, a craft beer brewery in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, music isn't just a background to the brewing process ¡ª it's an ingredient.
As countries ban social media for children, Japan mulls a different approach
Data from NTT Docomo¡¯s Mobile Society Research Institute released in June found that 55% of respondents across all age groups said they fiddled with their phones when they had nothing to do, even when another person was in front of them.
J. League enters new era as league kicks off first fall-spring campaign
Players from each J. League club pose during a kickoff event on Monday ahead of the start of the 2026-27 campaign.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

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Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
What Kumamoto revealed about Â鶹´«Ã½ earthquake readiness
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