India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated the 26-year-old Mirabai Chanu for opening India's medal tally at the Tokyo Olympics 2020 by winning a silver in Weightlifting Women's 49kg category on Saturday (July 24).

Tokyo Olympics: PM Modi wishes Mirabai Chanu for winning silver medal, says 'India is elated'

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India's badminton superstar PV Sindhu admits that the pressure is on at the Tokyo Olympics and she will be in the firing line. The 26-year-old world champion, who won silver at the Rio 2016 Games, begins her tilt at gold on Sunday against Israel's Ksenia Polikarpova.

Tokyo Olympics: Indian badminton star Sindhu feeling the pressure

The most troubled Olympics in modern history finally get under way in Tokyo on Friday, struggling to emerge from the clutches of COVID-19 after a one-year postponement following a build-up marred by scandal and controversy.

Troubled Tokyo Olympics set to open under Covid cloud

After six athletes and officials of the Czech Olympic team tested positive for coronavirus at the Olympic village, the Prime Minister has expressed dissatisfaction on the news and has called it a "scandal".

Tokyo Olympics: 'I don't like this one bit': Czech PM angered at athletes and officials testing positive for Covid

A Russian archer fainted in the Tokyo heat during a qualifying Olympic round on Friday as a heatwave pushed coaches and staff to huddle under trees for shade. Svetlana Gomboeva collapsed as she checked her final scores and required assistance from staff and teammates who put bags of ice on her head to cool her down.

Olympics 2020: Russian archer passes out under Tokyo's scorching heat

American gymnastic goddess Simone Biles and Japan's national sporting deity Kohei Uchimura begin their quests for Olympic immortality in Tokyo this weekend. Both have already achieved enough to be considered the greatest gymnasts of all time, but they approach the delayed 2020 Games as hungry as ever to enhance reputations that already stand as tall as nearby Mount Fuji.

Tokyo Olympics: Biles on five-gold gymnastics mission as 'King' Kohei plots triumphant farewell

More than 160 openly lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer athletes are due to participate in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, making this year`s Games the most inclusive ever.

Tokyo Olympics: With more LGBTQ athletes than ever, Games put focus on Japan

Banned from the Rio Games for gambling and almost forced to retire last year after a car crash, Japanese badminton star Kento Momota is finally ready for his Olympic debut.

Tokyo 2020: Badminton's comeback king Momota ready for Olympic debut

Ons Jabeur intends to fly the flag for Tunisia and beyond at the Tokyo Olympics, hoping to inspire more young Arab women to take up tennis, especially in North Africa.

Tokyo Olympics: Tunisian trailblazer Ons Jabeur dreams of tennis gold

India’s Olympic medalist, Sushil Kumar, will be able to watch the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Games from behind the bars as he is currently in Tihar Jail. Kumar is in jail after he was accused of the murder of wrestler Sagar Dhankad at Chhatrasal Stadium.

Jailed Olympian medallist, Sushil Kumar, gets access to TV in Tihar Jail to watch Tokyo 2020

French President Emmanuel Macron will also be present in the stands of Olympics Stadium to witness the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games 2020. Macron arrived in Tokyo on Friday for his two-day trip to Japan.

Tokyo Olympics: After Jill Biden, Emmanuel Macron arrives in Japan for opening ceremony

Boxing's credibility is on the line at the Tokyo Olympics after a series of scandals saw its governing body given the boot and judging controversies marred the Rio 2016 Games.

Tokyo Olympics: Boxing fights for reputation after Rio controversies

Spain’s artistic swimmer Ona Carbonell says she is ‘disappointed and disillusioned’ that she has been unable to bring her breastfeeding son with her to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Games.

Tokyo Olympics: Spanish artistic swimmer Ona Carbonell disappointed to leave breastfeeding son at home

KENTO MOMOTA (JAPAN) All eyes will be on the men's singles world number one, who has overcome personal and professional problems on the way to the Tokyo Olympics, including contracting COVID-19.

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The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) will be forced to watch as Russian athletes don uniforms in their country's colours of red, white and blue and compete at the Tokyo Olympics, having received softened sanctions over the nation's doping scandals.

Tokyo 2020: Disappointed World Anti-Doping Agency watches as Russians prepare for Olympic Games

Israeli Olympic team members killed by Palestinian gunmen at the 1972 Munich Olympics were remembered during the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony on Friday with a moment of silence, the first time this has happened.

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Israelis killed at 1972 Munich Games remembered in opening ceremony

Going by current rankings, the first-round clash between Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime and Britain's Andy Murray at the Tokyo Olympics would seem like a mismatch.

Tokyo Olympics tennis: Felix Auger-Aliassime set for 'big challenge' against Andy Murray

Former European 400 metres hurdles champion Kariem Hussein is out of the Tokyo Olympics after the Swiss athlete was given a nine-month doping suspension, officials said on Friday.

Tokyo Olympics: Swiss hurdler Kariem Hussein out of Games after doping ban

The world's No. 1 recurve archer Deepika Kumari finished ninth in the women's ranking round. She finished with 663 points out of a potential 720, hitting 30 10s and 13 X's in her 72 arrows.

Tokyo Olympics: Archer Deepika Kumari finishes 9th in ranking round; partner with Pravin Jadhav in mixed event

Japanese residents may be worried about the prospect of a typhoon forming off the coast next week, but the surfers taking part in the Olympic Games are welcoming the possibility of some big waves with open arms.

Olympic Games: Tokyo eyes typhoon forecast, but surfers say bring it on

German female gymnasts will choose whether they want to wear full body-suits in Sunday's qualifications at the Tokyo Olympics after receiving accolades for donning the outfits in the past in a stand against the sexualisation of their sport.

Tokyo 2020 - Gymnastics: German women take a stand in full-body suits in Tokyo

Four-time Olympian Emma Twigg's latest battle for the podium got off to a roaring start on Friday, as compelling matchups in the men's and women's single sculls began to take shape on the first day of Olympic rowing at the Sea Forest Waterway in Tokyo.

Olympics Games 2020: Rowing-Twigg, Borch blaze through field as Tokyo competition kicks off

China's Hou Zhihui, current world record holder in the lightest women's category, may smash her own record on Saturday when the Tokyo 2020 weightlifting begins, and take the first gold for her country.

Tokyo 2020: Olympics Weightlifting- China poised to bag first Tokyo gold