Tokyo Olympics 2020

Pooja Dhanda Interview: 'Made mistakes in opportune positions', Olympics medal hopeful reflects on loss in Ranking Series final

Pooja Dhanda had triumped over 2017 European champion Grace Jacob Bullen at the World Championships last year. But suffered a 5-0 defeat against her in the gold medal contest in Ranking Series tournament in Italy.

Sapporo suspends 2030 Winter Olympic bid events over Tokyo Games corruption scandal

Earlier this month, the IOC decided to postpone selecting a host for the 2030 Winter Games, citing concerns about the impact of climate change.

Tokyo Olympics board member arrested over $380,000 bribery allegations

Haruyuki Takahashi allegedly received $380,000 from high-street business suit retailer Aoki Holdings, an official partner of last year's pandemic-delayed 2020 Games.

Japanese police raid home of Tokyo Olympics board member: Reports

Haruyuki Takahashi, 78, is suspected of receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars from high street business suit retailer Aoki Holdings Inc.

Delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympics cost double original estimate at 1.42 trillion yen

The Games cost twice the 734 billion yen that the Tokyo Games organisers had predicted in their bid to the International Olympic Committee in 2013.

Organisers close books on costly, pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics

A University of Oxford study in 2020 said Tokyo was the most expensive Olympics on record.

Sharing Olympic gold at Tokyo was special but will not happen again, say high-jumpers Gianmarco Tamberi and Mutaz Essa Barshim

Italian Tamberi and Qatar's Barshim shared the high jump gold medal in one of the most extraordinary moments of the Tokyo Olympics last year.

Swimmer Sajan Prakash ready to take bigger strides after 'breakthrough' moment

Prakash made history by becoming the first Indian to breach the Games ‘A’ standard time, achieving the feat at the Sette Colli Trophy in Rome in 2021. Srihari Nataraj followed him soon after, achieving the ‘A’ qualifying time at the same event.

From Rio 2016 to Tokyo 2020, Indian women's hockey team has come a long way, says Rani Rampal

The Indian women's team narrowly missed out on a historic bronze in Tokyo in 2021 but recorded its best-ever performance at the Olympics.

Year in Review 2021: Top 10 sporting moments from the year gone by

As the year draws to a close, the sports desk at Firstpost picks some of their favourite moments from the 2021