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USA Gymnastics announced that Biles would withdraw from the individual all-around competition, as well, “in order to focus on her mental health.” Biles qualified for all four individual event

After one rotation, defending Olympic all-around champion Simone Biles pulled out of the women’s gymnastics team event final.

Skateboarding’s newest stars are two 13-year-old girls.

In Tokyo, 3x3 basketball, a shrunk-down, half-court version of basketball will make its Olympic debut. A sped-up version of a globally beloved game should prove more attractive.

TIME spoke with survivors and their families about the alarming 74% increase in reported anti-Asian hate incidents, and how the effects of these events span generations.

Skateboarding has a new king, and Japan has another fine reason to cheer these troubled Olympics.

The Opening Ceremony for the Tokyo Olympics, a year delayed, publicly opposed —went off Friday night on a humid 82-degree evening Tokyo, in an Olympic Stadium eerily quiet since it was devoid of its

At the Tokyo 2020 Games, strict COVID-19 countermeasures are in place for the media, athletes and other Olympics-related personnel, from testing to movement restrictions.

In a conversation with Torrey Peters, author of "Detransition, Baby," actor Tommy Dorfman reintroduces herself to the world.

In late 2019, expeditioners and guides Hilde Falun and Sunniva Sorby went to Norway’s remote Svalbard archipelago to complete a long-term goal of being the first female team to over winter in the

Sue Bird, 40, has assumed the role of wizened veteran, both on and off the court.

TIME's senior sports correspondent Sean Gregory spent a day with American climber Kyra Condie, who taught him the basics of the new Olympic sport.

Susana Rodriguez Gacio has Albinism and has been blind since birth, but that hasn't stopped her from breaking barriers and becoming a Paralympian and doctor.

Win Htet Oo worked all his life to become an elite swimmer, with the dream of representing Myanmar at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. But after the Feb.

Allyson Felix's fifth return to the Olympics was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Terrance Franklin was killed by Minneapolis police in 2013. The Minneapolis Police Department investigated its own officers and cleared them soon after.

A special performance by Daya.

A special performance by Hayley Kiyoko.

Today, you can turn on the TV and watch hours of drag performances. But it was not too long ago that a trans woman and drag queen could not perform as her true self.

Meet Ma Baoli, a former police officer who founded DanLan.org, an online forum for gay Chinese people, in 2000.

On June 23, Spears delivered bracingly candid and emotional remarks about her ongoing case.

All the trappings of a major international summit were on full display as President Joe Biden and Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin met Wednesday in an 18th century manor house overlooking the

When director Jon M. Chu first saw the musical In the Heights on Broadway in 2008, his imagination whirred to life with possibilities.

Too many young generations have been shaped by the global crises they faced—Depression-era poverty, Cold War nuclear fears. Add to them the COVID generation.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 Westminster Dog Show was rescheduled and relocated to a riverside estate in Tarrytown, New York rather than its usual location, Manhattan's Madison Square

The Australian softball team is among the first international Olympic teams to arrive in Japan.

Photographer Trevor Stuurman changed the visual narrative of contemporary Africa. Now he wants to make sure the moment lasts.

These twin sisters are creating space for women in the gaming world—and it's paying off.

How Afro-Brazilian pop star Iza is using her platform to fight racism.

Afghanistan's youngest Mayor is putting her life on the line to improve her community.