Even if the COVID-19 pandemic does not prevent the Tokyo Olympics from going ahead next year, the blazing summer heat in the Japanese capital could still make the Games 'a nightmare', an advisor to ...

Beatrice Chebet has emerged victorious in a thrilling women’s 5,000m final at the Tokyo 2025 World Athletics Championships. Chebet stormed to gold in the women’s 5000m with a time of 14:54.36, while ...

World No. 2 Daniil Medvedev was clearly struggling through the first set against Fabio Fognini when the match umpire asked him if he would be OK to finish the match. “What can I do? I’m a fighter, I ...

The marathon and 35km race walk events at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo will start 30 minutes earlier than scheduled because of the heat. Temperatures in the Japanese capital are expected ...

The marathons and 35km race walks at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo will start half an hour earlier because of health risks posed by unseasonably hot weather, organizers said.

The National Stadium, a venue for the opening and closing ceremonies for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, is seen from an observation deck, on March 25, 2020, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File) TOKYO ...

Japan celebrated the return to Tokyo of a premier global sporting event with a medal ... Despite the road race start times being moved 30 minutes earlier than scheduled, in anticipation of the heat ...

BBC Sport's Ask Me Anything team look at what went wrong for Great Britain's relay squads at the Tokyo World Athletics Championship.

Ten current or former Arkansas track and field athletes received medals at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, which concluded Sunday. The event ran from Sept. 13-21 and included 19 ...

India ended the 2025 World Athletics Championships without a medal, extending a six-year drought. Sarvesh Kushare's high jump and Sachin Yadav's near-podium javelin throw were bright spots in an ...

The relays always offer fast and furious action but with, unusually, all four sets of heats being held on the same night, it was unrelenting.