Olympic Games 2020

For a country where tattoos remain stigmatised and those sporting them are banned from beaches, gyms, pools and elsewhere, Japan, especially Tokyo, is seeing them in abundance. Olympic rings are the hot favourites among inked athletes

Tokyo Olympics 2020 | A look at the youngest Olympians competing in Summer Games

Japan's Momiji Nishiya became one of the youngest individual Olympic champions in history when she won the inaugural women's skateboarding gold at the age of 13 years on July 26.

Tokyo Olympics 2020 | No cheers amid virus fears at fanless Tokyo Games

All around the Tokyo Games, empty seats have provided a sullen, silent reminder that these unusual Olympics have been staged against the will of many in Japan, where the coronavirus pandemic is surging.

Tokyo Olympics 2020 begins; here're some stunning images from Opening Ceremony

With a blaze of indigo and white fireworks lighting the night sky, the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony has started on July 23. It began with a single female athlete at the center of the stadium, kneeling. As she stood, the shadow behind her took the shape of a seedling, growing as she walked. A number of athletes were featured in a video that started with the moment Tokyo won the Olympic bid in 2013, then eventually to images of a world silenced by the pandemic. Games, which was halted by the global coronavirus outbreak, began under heavy restriction amid the pandemic. Take a sneak peek inside the opening ceremony.

Tokyo Olympics | Kept out of venues, Japan Olympic superfan brings Games home

Games organisers had planned to allow up to 10,000 fans into venues until a surge in virus cases prompted a rethink. But they would have been subject to strict anti-virus rules inside venues, with mask-wearing mandatory and cheering and high-fiving prohibited.

Tokyo Olympics 2020 | A look at the ballooning cost of hosting games and what Japan has at stake

The Olympics were originally expected to be a huge tourist draw, but banning foreign spectators will hamper an early recovery in inbound tourism.

‘For my People’: A transgender woman pursues an Olympic dream

Olympic historians say that no athletes at the Winter or Summer Games have publicly identified as transgender when they competed. At least two announced that they were transgender sometime later, including Caitlyn Jenner, who won a gold medal in the decathlon in 1976.