The torch relay shows the organizers' determination to proceed with the Games, despite public skepticism. It is set to crisscross the country and arrive at the opening ceremony in Tokyo on July 23.

Tokyo organizers on Saturday announced that foreign spectators will be barred from attending this year's Olympic and Paralympic Games due to concerns over COVID-19.

The Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics were delayed a year by the coronavirus pandemic. Now, there's as much uncertainty as there was a year ago. The athletes are doing their best to focus on their training.

The Tokyo Olympic committee head plans to resign Friday amid a firestorm of criticism about his comments disparaging women's participation in organizing the Tokyo Games, say Japanese outlets.

Despite the efforts of Japanese and Olympic officials to quash the debate, pressure on the Games' organizing chief is mounting over his recent comments that women talk too much in board meetings.

With the Winter Olympics set for next year, NPR's Scott Simon talks about the push by some human rights groups to move the games out of Beijing.

For bobsledder and Georgia native Elana Meyers Taylor, the Olympics are a culmination of more than a decade of work. She won three medals including...

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It's been 20 years since Atlanta became an Olympic city. The city transformed after that moment. We spend the hour on how the 1996 Olympics changed...

Twenty years have passed since Atlanta became an Olympic city. We look back at the games and examine how the city transformed with former NPR...

The 2016 Rio Olympics will be kicking off next month, but this year also marks the 20th anniversary of the 1996 Atlanta games. And one of the biggest...

Preparations are underway for the Summer Olympic Games in Rio, and Atlanta is home to one of the best track and field teams in the world. The Georgia...