Olympics

Egypt's national table tennis team, consisting of Egyptian duo Omar Assar and Dina Meshref, qualified for the Paris…

Anne Hidalgo, mayor of Paris, confirmed on Sunday the opening of three river bathing areas in the city in 2025, a…

Syrian sisters Sara and Yusra Mardini were listed on the Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2023, as the sisters…

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Tuesday he and the head of the International Olympic Committee agreed on…

Twitter announced on Saturday that the official Twitter account of the Olympics and the International Olympic…

A gaming tournament that is aiming to be the "Olympics of e-sports" was showcased at the Rio Games on Monday, with…

Annemiek van Vleuten suffered three fractured vertebrae and a concussion after a horrifying high-speed crash in the…

Three Egyptian swimmers have been qualified to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games after winning medals in various…

Local authorities have suspended work on the arena hosting beach volleyball events at the Olympics in August due to…

Brazil's Zika virus outbreak won't compromise the Olympics the country will be hosting in August, President Dilma…

Russian track and field athletes could be banned from the 2016 Olympics after an independent report detailed an…

Upbeat Chinese trade and inflation data lifted Chinese shares to three-month highs and boosted regional shares on…

Tokyo was awarded the 2020 summer Games on Saturday, beating Istanbul in a head-to-head vote after Prime Minister…

Britain's Andy Murray says winning gold at the Olympics has given him the confidence to win a Grand Slam title.…

Karam Gaber, Egypt’s Greco-Roman wrestler, won the silver medal in the 84 kilogram division Monday, raising the…

Egypt's Amro El Geziry won the Olympic men's modern pentathlon swimming event on Saturday. The current leaders…

Olympic men's freestyle wrestling 60kg last 16 results on Saturday. Results Table Besik Kudukhov (Russia) beat…

Olympic men's taekwondo flyweight -58kg quarter-finals results on Wednesday. Results Table Alexey Denisenko…

Russia's Alan Khugaev won the Olympic gold medal in the men's Greco-Roman wrestling 84kg on Monday. Egypt's Karam…

Italy's success on the fencing piste with a leading seven medals in the 2012 Olympic Games masks an erosion of the…

Men's Greco-Roman wrestling 120kg repechage second-round results. Ioseb Chugoshvili (Belarus) beat Lukasz Banak…

Olympic men's Greco-Roman wrestling 74kg qualification results on Sunday. Results Table Neven Zugaj (Croatia)…

Bulgaria's Aleksander Aleksandrov beat South Korea's Shin Jong-Hun 15-14 in an Olympic men's boxing light flyweight…

Gold medal favourites Brazil twice came from behind to beat underdogs Honduras 3-2 and will face South Korea in the…

Egypt, who endured a torrid start to the competition when they trailed Brazil 3-0 in their opening match, completed…

France's Ugo Legrand beat Egypt's Hussein Hafiz in match 8 of the Olympic men's Judo 73kg last 16 at ExCel on…

France's Hongyan Pi beat Egypt's Hadia Hosny 2-0 in a women's badminton singles Group I match. Results Table Pi…

Women's table tennis singles first round results at the 2012 London Games on Saturday. Results Table Yifang Xian…

Algeria's Rahou Abdelmalek beat Australia's Jesse Ross 13-11 in the Olympic men's boxing middleweight last 32 at…

Egyptian sailor Ahmed Habash has his own way of dealing with the difficulties faced by the hundreds of Muslim…

Saudi Arabia will send two female athletes to this month's Olympics in London, the International Olympic Committee…

Yahoo plans to double its Olympics presence this summer as it aims to be the Games' top website for the fourth…

Mini Olympic Games - organized by the British Council in partnership with the Egyptian Olympic committee -…

Gaza runner Bahaa al-Farra treads carefully, braving the elements and potholed roads ravaged by years of conflict…