A Japanese canoeist, who was competing for a spot at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, admitted to having spiked the drink of a key rival to make him fail a doping test at a national championship last September.

Mongolian grand champion Harumafuji reportedly told police on Friday that he hit a lower-ranked fellow wrestler during a drunken brawl last month. Sources say he struck the junior wrestler in the head with his bare hands, not with a beer bottle.

The Houston Astros first baseman from Cuba will serve a five-game suspension in 2018 for making a racist gesture toward the Dodgers pitcher Yu Darvish during Friday’s World Series game. After hitting a home run, he appeared to slant his eyes and say a word in Spanish to mock Asian people.

Yoshihide Kiryu became the first Japanese sprinter to break the 10-second barrier in the men’s 100 meter race, winning an intercollegiate event in 9.98 seconds on Saturday. He was a member of Japan’s silver medal-winning team in the men’s 4-by-100 meter relay at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

A Denver Post sportswriter lost his job on Monday after triggering a backlash on social media for tweeting that a Japanese driver’s victory in the Indianapolis 500 made him “uncomfortable.”

Figure skating icon Mao Asada, who has been plagued by left-knee pain, announced her retirement on Monday, saying she has lost the will to compete after a disappointing season.

The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee sent a letter on Thursday to a golf club which will host events in the 2020 Games, urging it to allow women to be full members by amending its regulations.

Over ten thousand fans flocked to a Tokyo shrine on Friday to watch sumo wrestler Kisenosato perform his first ring-entry ceremony as the first Japanese born grand champion in nearly two decades.

Thousands of mourners gathered at the stadium of their local soccer team in Chapeco, Brazil on Saturday when the bodies of 71 people, who were killed in a Colombia plane crash, returned home.

About 800,000 passionate spectators lined the roadsides of central Tokyo on Friday to see a parade of Japanese medalists from the Rio Olympics and Paralympics.

The Hiroshima Carp captured the Central League pennant on Saturday for the first time in 25 years after the team defeated the Yomiuri Giants 6-4 at Tokyo Dome.