Novak Djokovic says he understands why Jannik Sinner’s lack of a suspension despite two positive drug tests has some tennis players questioning whether there’s a double standard in the sport.

Carlos Alcaraz has cut short a pre-U.S. Open training session after twisting his right ankle but said he isn’t worried that it’ll be a problem for the year’s last Grand Slam tournament.

Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz have been placed on opposite sides of the U.S. Open bracket and could meet in another big final after Wimbledon and the Paris Olympics.

Snoop Dogg brought out Dr. Dre, Billie Eilish and Red Hot Chili Peppers all performed from a California beachside during the handover to the 2028 Los Angeles Games.

Paris has closed out two and a half extraordinary weeks of Olympic sports and emotion with a star-studded show in France’s national stadium.

The Olympics will always have Paris.

Noah Lyles lost the Olympic 200 meters, falling to Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo, then collapsing on the track and being carted off in a wheelchair.

China is trying to fight fire with fire in the face of persistent doping allegations that have dogged its swimmers at the Paris Olympics.

Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon opened her bid to win a third straight Olympic 1,500-meter title, turning the page on a drama-filled night that ultimately ended with a medal for her.

The United States closed out Olympic swimming with a wide range of emotions.

While some of the biggest names in American swimming have faltered at the Paris Olympics, Torri Huske has claimed a starring role.

Less than an hour after Alex Walsh was denied an Olympic bronze medal for a disqualification in her 200-meter individual medley, younger sister Gretchen helped set a 4x100 mixed medley relay world record with the Americans.

Katie Ledecky has capped another stellar Olympics by becoming only the second swimmer to win the same event at four straight Summer Games, holding off Ariarne Titmus to win the 800-meter freestyle.

Tahiti is hosting the surfing competition for the Paris Olympics and has been a coveted destination for the sport for decades, but it’s only in more recent years that local surf culture and talent begun to develop among younger generations.

Covered with pins and adornments, Vivianne Robinson is hard to miss in the streets of Paris.

Canada has lost its appeal against the deduction of six competition points following a drone-spying scandal in the Olympic women’s soccer tournament.

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Olympic gymnastics is no longer exclusively the realm of teenagers.

China has won the first gold medal of the Paris Olympics.

The chief executive of Delta Air Lines expects flight cancellations and delays that resulted from a global technology breakdown last week to be resolved by Thursday.

The United States has won 826 all-time medals in track and field, the most of any country.

Forty-two current, former and incoming Wolverines will represent 22 different countries at the Summer Olympics in Paris, France.

We are all getting excited about the start of the Olympic games, and if you are like many people, they may also inspire you to get into better shape or improve your exercise game.

French authorities say a police officer has been wounded in a knife attack in Paris in the Champs-Elysees neighborhood.

Elite athletes are incredibly focused and driven to compete at the highest level, sometimes overcoming great odds to succeed, especially for one University of Michigan swimmer who is punching her ticket to Paris while managing a serious health issue.

Luka Doncic and Giannis Antetokounmpo have faced off nine times in their NBA careers, and those games have never disappointed.

Grant Holloway won U.S. track trials in the 110-meter hurdles Friday, finishing in 12.86 second to earn a chance to capture the Olympic title that eluded him in an upset loss three years ago.

Cooper Flagg’s summer will include some time playing against the U.S. Olympic team.

The days of “plausibly live” Olympics coverage on NBC are coming to an end.

Olympic champion Athing Mu’s hopes for a repeat title came crashing down during the first lap of the 800-meter final at U.S. track trials.

Simone Manuel has earned an individual race at the Olympics on the final night of the U.S. swimming trials, winning the 50-meter freestyle.

Caeleb Dressel has locked up his second individual race in Paris, giving him another chance to shine after his stellar performance at the last Olympics.

There is one more item to scratch off the list before everyone from Sha’Carri Richardson to Noah Lyles to Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone embark on their trips to Paris for the Olympics.

Caitlin Clark hopes to play for the U.S. Olympic team one day.

Gymnastics star Simone Biles cruised to a record ninth U.S. Championship, giving good friend Sunisa Lee a boost along the way.

Olympic champion Katie Ledecky says faith in the anti-doping system is at an “all-time low” in the wake of the way global regulators handled a case involving Chinese swimmers.

There’s no making up for what Olympic hurdler Lashinda Demus lost on the day she finished.

French police have evicted migrants from a makeshift camp in Paris a few steps away from the Seine River.

Athletes in plenty of sports compete for plenty of cash.

The biggest moments for many of this generation’s Olympic athletes came in front of mostly empty stands.

A proposed rewrite of the law governing the Olympics in the United States calls on public funding for the embattled U.S. Center for SafeSport while also forming a new government office to oversee grassroots sports that have long been attached to the Olympics themselves.

Can the USWNT rebound from a disappointing performance at 2023 Women's World Cup?

This will definitely be a unique "French touch" for medal winners this summer.

The Summer Olympics in Paris are nearly six months away, but already trials have started in certain sports for American athletes.

American gymnastics legend Mary Lou Retton says she is “overwhelmed with all the love and support” she has received and is slowly recovering with family after being hospitalized with a rare form of pneumonia earlier this month.

The family of Olympic gymnastics champion Mary Lou Retton says she is “continuing to fight.”.

The NFL’s ongoing push for worldwide exposure got another boost when organizers for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics delivered a proposal to put flag football on the program when the Summer Games return to the United States for the first time in 32 years.

American cyclist Chloe Dygert's comeback from a career-threatening injury culminated with a world title in the women's time trial on Thursday.

Heavy rains in Paris have led Sunday to cancel a swimming event in the River Seine that was to be a test for next year’s Summer Olympics.

Ralph Boston, the Olympic long jump champion who broke Jesse Owens’ record, has died.

The new leader of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee has reiterated the federation’s support for exploring a way for Russian athletes to compete at the Paris Olympics as neutrals.

This weekend and next week will mark a slice of sports history in the United States, one that might be hard to fathom.

Changes are coming at the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee, sparked by frustration with years of flat revenue and what some portray as heavy-handed management in the wake of sex-abuse scandals that upended the movement in America.

Bottom of the ninth? Pressure. Two free throws to win the game? Pressure. Six-foot putt to win the U.S. Open? Pressure. But there's not pressure like that heaped on Olympic athletes, who carry the expectations of a nation and only get the chance to shrug it off every four years.

The first so-called modern Olympics were held in 1896 in Athens.

Tara Lipinski was a sprightly 15-year-old ballerina-on-ice when she won figure skating gold at the 1998 Nagano Olympics.

The Summer Olympics might be over, but these little kids were inspired by the athletes they saw on TV, and they're now ready to compete in future games.

In what was otherwise a rough two weeks in Tokyo for NBC Universal, viewers perked up a bit in the second week of the games when the U.S. team's performance did the same.

Here’s a breakdown of what certain countries pay athletes when they win a medal in the Summer Olympics, according to Forbes.

With the flame extinguished in Tokyo this past weekend, the torch for the Summer Olympics -- seeing as the Winter Games in Beijing are just six months away -- has been passed to Paris, the host of the 2024 Summer Games.

Baseball's traditional powers — Japan, the United States and the Dominican Republic — took the medals as the sport made a dramatic return to the Olympic program.

Japan secured Olympic baseball gold 11 days after winning the gold medal in softball on the same field in Yokohama.

Olympians themselves are absolutely impressive. Then, throw in the athletes who have medaled more than once. That’s certainly something to write home about.

The United States hasn’t hosted any Olympic Games since 2002, when Salt Lake City welcomed the world to the Winter Olympics, but man, there have certainly been some cities that have tried.

She had the long and colorful nails. She wore the flashy outfits, including a neon, one-legged spandex bodysuit. Above all, she had the iconic nickname “Flo-Jo,” which just sounded fast.

A third country has joined the medal table for the very first time at the 2020 Tokyo Games.

It will nearly impossible for Pita Taufatofua to outlast his original claim to fame as “the shirtless flag bearer,” which made him a legend on social media.

For anyone who’s waiting until the Games air in primetime Thursday night: Caution ahead! This article contains spoilers.

The Tokyo Olympics are still just getting started, but there already have been a good collection of stories that have pulled at the heartstrings of millions around the world.

Simone Biles came to Tokyo as the star of the U.S. Olympic movement and perhaps the Games themselves.

It was the portion of the Opening Ceremony that many were talking about, and no, it wasn’t the lighting of the torch.

Tens of thousands of visiting athletes, officials and media are descending on Japan for a Summer Olympics unlike any other.

The largest of the Navajo Nation casinos is preparing to reopen for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began.

When the pandemic hit last March leading to a one year postponement of the Olympics and the inability of teams to practice and play together, the U.S. women’s volleyball team devised a plan.

The past two Olympics in indoor volleyball have shown that slow starts are far from detrimental.

Last week, the field of 60 who will compete in the men’s golf competition at the upcoming Tokyo Olympics was announced, and it will be a decorated field with six of the top-10 golfers in the world rankings included.

We lost a lot last summer due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and one of those things was the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Katie Lou Samuelson, Kelsey Plum, Allisha Gray and Stefanie Dolson have all officially been named to the women's Olympic 3x3 basketball team.

Can you believe that one month from today, the Olympic flame will officially be lit to start the Tokyo Olympics?

Kevin Durant and Devin Booker are reportedly expected to head to the Tokyo Olympics.

The Japanese public generally opposes holding the Tokyo Olympics during a pandemic, even though outward dissent has seemed muted.

When you think of the Summer Olympics, do you think of swimming? Gymnastics? Basketball? Track and field?

It's sinking in that Japan's scramble to catch up on a frustratingly slow vaccination drive less than two months before the Summer Olympics start may be too little, too late.

Meet Sky Brown, a skateboarding prodigy who is on the verge of becoming one of the youngest athletes to ever compete at the Summer Olympics.

Hospitals in Osaka, Japan’s third-biggest city and only 2 1/2 hours by bullet train from Summer Olympics host Tokyo, are overflowing with coronavirus patients.

The Summer Olympics are currently scheduled to start July 23. That’s good news for sisters and 100-meter hurdlers Cindy Ofili and Tiffany Porter.

It’s no secret that the United States is the most decorated country when it comes to winning medals at the Summer Olympics, with the red, white and blue taking home more than 2,600 medals, the most of any country.

The State Department says the Biden administration is consulting with allies about a joint approach to China and its human rights record, including how to handle the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics.

Friday, we learned that overseas spectators will not be allowed to attend the games in Tokyo, but athletes are still preparing for the games to go on as planned, because it’s the only way to train. We met her in November 2019, as she trained in Howell for her first Olympic Games. “At same time, you’re living great life of being a professional athlete, an Olympic athlete.”What’s better than one Olympic athlete? “We will support each other no matter what and be happy for each other, no matter the result,” Chidester said. No matter what.”AdRELATED: How Metro Detroit olympians managed to keep training through COVID pandemic

The title of the most-decorated athlete ever belongs to United States swimmer Michael Phelps, who won 28 medals competing in five different Summer Olympics from 2000 to 2016. But there are so many highly decorated female Olympians, too.

Seiko Hashimoto, president of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Organizing Committee, speaks during a press conference following the Tokyo 2020 Executive Board meeting in Tokyo Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. The 56-year-old Hashimoto was named president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee after a meeting of its executive board, which is 80% male. She also held a portfolio dealing with gender equality and women’s empowerment. "I think it will be important for Tokyo 2020 to practice equality.”International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach said Hashimoto was “the perfect choice” for the job. AdKotani is the sports director for the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee.

A medical worker receives a dose of COVID-19 vaccine Tokyo Medical Center in Tokyo Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021. Japan's first coronavirus shots were given to health workers Wednesday, beginning a vaccination campaign considered crucial to holding the already delayed Tokyo Olympics. Medical workers say vaccinations will help protect them and their families, and business leaders hope the drive will allow economic activity to return to normal. The first batch of Pfizer vaccines that arrived Friday is enough to cover the first group of medical workers. AdAfter the front-line medical workers will come inoculations of 3.7 million more health workers starting in March, followed by about 36 million people aged 65 and older beginning in April.

DETROIT – The Japanese government is denying a report in a British newspaper that it’s considering canceling the already postponed Summer Olympics. The Olympic host city, Tokyo, is under a state of emergency. READ: 6 months until postponed Tokyo Olympics -- will it go on? More than 11,000 athletes from more than 200 nations compete in 33 sports during the Olympics. READ: Tokyo governor: Japan can host Olympics despite virus spike

Saturday, Jan. 23 marks six months until the Tokyo Olympic Games, which were postponed last year due to the coronavirus pandemic. READ MORE: Japan minister says “anything can happen” with Tokyo GamesAthletes have had to be resourceful with training since many competitions have been cancelled or postponed. Vanderkaay is hopeful the postponed summer Olympics will still take place amid the pandemic, even without spectators. Tokyo Olympics Q&A: 6 months out and murmurs of cancellationThe Tokyo Olympics are to open in six months on July 23, and organizers have no public program planned to mark the milestone. Should they take place during a spreading pandemic — vaccine or no vaccine?

Bach said during this week's trip to Tokyo that he is encouraging all Olympic participants and fans to be vaccinated - if one becomes available - if they are going to attend next year's Tokyo Olympics. The Tokyo Olympics were postponed eight months ago, and now are to open in eight months: July 23, 2021. Hanging in the balance are 11,000 Olympic athletes and 4,400 Paralympians. Tokyo said the Olympics would cost $7.3 billion when it was awarded the games in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2013. Takahashi is a former executive of the Japanese marketing company Dentsu Inc., the marketing agent for the Tokyo Games.

TOKYO – The IOC and Tokyo Olympic organizers have been shouting the message for months now, that despite the continuing pandemic, the Games will open on July 23, 2021. Bach was also asked last week whether he was going to Tokyo to talk about contingencies for canceling the Olympics. Bach is travelling on a private charter and will meet new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Monday morning. An hour later he’s with Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, and then holds a media conference with Tokyo organizing committee President Yoshiro Mori, another former prime minister. The IOC president has has called Tokyo the best prepared Olympics in history, a point he's likely to repeat.

TOKYO – Fans living in Japan who bought tickets for the postponed Tokyo Olympics have been guaranteed refunds, the local organizing committee said Friday. The IOC and Tokyo organizers are running several task forces looking at ways to handle immigration and COVID-19. He’s also organized a popular Facebook page that’s a go-to for Tokyo ticket information. Tokyo organizers have budgeted $800 million in income from ticket sales in Japan and aboard, their third largest source of income. Organizers say 4.48 million Olympic tickets have been sold in Japan, with 970,000 tickets for the Paralympics.

FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2020, file photo, United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee CEO Sarah Hirshland listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a briefing with the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Los Angeles 2028 organizers in Beverly Hills, Calif. Even before the coronavirus pandemic wiped the Summer Olympics off the 2020 sports calendar, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee was an organization in peril. “Last year I talked about evolution and ‘Jurassic Park,’” chair Susanne Lyons said, in a nod to the changes the USOPC had embarked upon, pre-COVID. College sports teams supplied the U.S. with about 75% of its roster at the 2016 Summer Games. The Summer Olympics are nine months away, with a Winter Games set for February 2022, and the Los Angeles Games — the first Summer Games in America in a generation — scheduled for 2028.

TOKYO – Tokyo Olympic organizers estimate they have found cost-savings of about $280 million by simplifying and cutting some frills from next year’s postponed games. The savings represent about 2% of the official Tokyo Olympic budget of $12.6 billion. Gakuji Ito, the chief financial officer of the Tokyo Olympics, acknowledged the cost-savings figure was only an estimate. Most of the bills for the Tokyo Olympics and the postponement fall on Japanese taxpayers. About $5.6 billion in the Tokyo Olympic budget is private money, and about $1.3 billion of that comes from the IOC.