Tokyo Olympics 2020 Football

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Caeleb Dressel, Katie Ledecky hunt more gold as Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce seeks 100m treble

Katie Ledecky is the runaway favourite in the women's 800m free, winning gold at the last two Olympics and four straight world championships.

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Richarlison fires Brazil into quarter-finals with win over Saudi Arabia; Germany knocked out

Reigning champions Brazil, who won gold for the first time on home soil in Rio de Janeiro five years ago, finished top of Group D and will face Egypt in the last eight on Saturday.

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Netherlands trounce China 8-2 to set up women's football quarter-final with USA

European champions the Netherlands finished top of Group F having scored 21 goals, after a 10-3 thrashing of Zambia and 3-3 draw with runners-up Brazil, who beat the Zambians 1-0 on Tuesday.

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Reigning champions Brazil held by Ivory Coast, Andre-Pierre Gignac scores hattrick in France win

Brazil, who won gold for the first time five years ago on home soil in Rio, could have moved to the brink of qualification for the knock-out stage in Yokohama but were denied by a stubborn Ivory Coast.

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Mexico thrash France as Richarlison hat-trick helps Brazil hand Germany 4-2 loss

Sylvain Ripoll's France are looking for a first Olympic medal since winning gold in 1984, but collapsed in the second half at Tokyo Stadium.

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Favourites US Women thumped by Sweden while Dutch score 10 against Zambia in football

The US have won four of six Olympic titles since women's football was introduced to the programme in 1996, but suffered a heavy defeat by the same team that knocked them out on penalties in the quarter-finals in Rio.

Tokyo Olympics 2020: COVID-19 cases linked to Games highlight herculean task organisers face to contain virus

The positive tests came as some of the 11,000 athletes and thousands more team officials expected from across the globe began arriving, having traveled through a pandemic to get to Tokyo.

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Britain women's football team will take a knee at Games

The Olympics start next week with Britain opening their group-stage campaign against Chile in Sapporo and then playing host Japan and Canada and Chile.

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Tottenham star Son Heung-min left out of South Korea football squad

Spurs striker Son was excused an 18-month stint in the armed forces after winning a gold medal at the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Eric Garcia, Unai Simon among six Euro players named in Spain's squad for Games

The only players from non-Spanish clubs in the Olympic squad are Olmo of Leipzig and Rafa Mir of Wolverhampton Wanderers.