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WADA has informed the White House that its officials were seeking to bar its representative from any deliberations about positive tests by Chinese athletes.

Ohtani has a chance to make even more history after reaching the 40-40 club.

Kyoto International High School defeated Tokyo’s Kanto Daiichi High School in extra innings.

"Iga's very disciplined, very organized, very serious about her game and very mature," Evert, now a tennis analyst for ESPN, told reporters.

Lyles tested positive on Tuesday, officials said, two days after he won the 100 meter-final.

Wang Chi-Lin and Lee Yang of Taiwan, the reigning champions from the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, won a three-game thriller against China's Liang Weikeng and Wang Chang.

After South Korea won bronze and North Korea silver in the mixed doubles table tennis, South Korea's Lim Jong-hoon took a group photo after the medal ceremony.

The French railways system was hit by a series of attacks on Friday.

Japanese tournaments often use equipment made by domestic firm Senoh, while the Paris Games will use equipment made by France's Gymnova.

Investigators have raised suspicions that the two women filed a criminal complaint based on false or incorrect accounts, sources said.

Basketball star Victor Wembanyama joined other leading French athletes on Thursday in warning against voting for the "extremes" in this weekend's parliamentary election.

The keeper became a hero for China after his saves during Singapore's match at Thailand helped China squeeze into the next qualifying round.

An NPB historian has found that U.S. sailors may have had a baseball game with Japanese players in the early part of the Meiji Era (1868-1912) in Osaka.

Research suggests that elite athletes suffer from mental health disorders in around the same proportions as the general population, experts say.

Ippei Mizuhara admitted to one count of bank fraud, which carries a maximum 30-year prison sentence, and one count of filing a false tax return.

The 57-year-old reportedly needed medical treatment on Sunday after feeling unwell during a flight.

The parents of PGA Tour golfer Grayson Murray, who died on Saturday at age 30, said he had taken his own life.

Murray died one day after withdrawing from the Charles Schwab Challenge in Fort Worth, Texas.

It’s that time of year once again for one of the great horse races in Japan, the Group 1 Japanese Derby — or Tokyo Yushun to give its Japanese name — which will be held on May 26 at Fuchu Racecourse, just a short distance from the center…

Saudi Arabia will look to homegrown talent to expand its base of elite athletes rather than follow its neighbors down the path of naturalizing foreigners, the media chief of the Saudi Olympic Committee has said.

The war in Gaza came to the forefront at world soccer's biggest meeting, as the Palestinian association called for Israel to be immediately suspended from FIFA on Friday.

Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter appeared in court in California on Tuesday on charges of illegally transferring nearly $17 million from the baseball star's bank account to pay off gambling debts.

A top Malaysian soccer player is "responding well" after undergoing a three-hour skin graft procedure, a sports official said Friday, following an acid attack that left the player in intensive care and shocked the country.

Ippei Mizuhara, Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter, has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges that he secretly transferred about $17 million from the player’s account to pay off his own gambling debts, court records showed Wednesday.

Ukrainian Olympian and two-time European champion Oleksandr Pielieshenko has died on the front lines of Russia's war in Ukraine at age 30, the Ukrainian Weightlifting Federation (UWF) said on Monday.

South Korean international soccer player Son Jun-ho has joined an amateur fifth-tier club on his comeback from 10 months' detention in China.

The racing world reacted with shock and sadness after jockey Kota Fujioka died following a fall during a race, the second fatality to hit the sport in as many weeks.

Spanish police on Wednesday briefly arrested disgraced ex-football chief Luis Rubiales in connection with an alleged graft scandal at the RFEF football federation when he was president.

Former China soccer coach and ex-Everton midfielder Li Tie pleaded guilty on Thursday to accepting over $10 million in bribes, a court said, part of a broader crackdown on corruption in Chinese soccer.

The former chairman of the Chinese Football Association has been sentenced to life in prison for accepting bribes worth $11 million, state media said Tuesday, part of a crackdown on corruption in the domestic game.