TOKYO -- The Tokyo Olympic bid-rigging scandal widened Tuesday, with Japanese advertising giant Dentsu and five other companies charged by Tokyo district prosecutors.

A former Tokyo Olympic organizing committee board member and three people from a clothing company that was a surprise sponsor of the 2020 Games were arrested on bribery suspicions Wednesday.

World Athletics has found that female athletes were the target of 87% of all online abuse during the Tokyo Olympics.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG) has announced plans to reopen three of the eight new permanent venues used at the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020. Another Tokyo 2020 venue, the Yumenoshima Park Archery Field, has been open since 31 October.

There is a Russian elephant in the room at the Tokyo Olympics. Technically, Russia is officially banned from competing in international sporting events until next year for running a state-sponsored doping program. And yet there are 334 Russian gymnasts, sprinters and other athletes competing openly in Tokyo.

In the suburbs of Tokyo, Hiromi Matsumoto found herself falling in love with online videos of rhythmic gymnastics — a spectacular swirl of ballet and acrobatics, clubs soaring through the air, bodies contorting into superhuman bends.

Argentina won their second ever medal in Olympics since 1988. This is their third bronze medal match in their Olympic history.

The International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) is to form a Riding Working Group to review the equestrian element of the sport at Tokyo 2020 - following controversy and a horse-abuse scandal.

The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games has shown the world how powerful sport can be with inspiring moments happening throughout the event, but Kuo Hsing-chun has taken the Olympic spirit above and beyond.

Pressure group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has called for all equestrian events to be removed from the Olympics, in the wake of a Tokyo 2020 horse-abuse scandal and the death of another horse at the Games.

The International Swimming Federation (FINA) has released statistics from its Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games anti-doping testing programmes, which it has described as "successful".

When you start watching tennis or playing it, its rules are not easy to understand. What is that counting from 15 to 30 and then to 40? What is that tie break? But you learn. It is much more complex to understand the distribution of power in tennis, a fragmented sport in which its federation does not have the power of FIFA or World Athletics, but owns some jewels.

Because the consolation game in their sport was scheduled for hours after the USA Basketball men’s national team defeated France in the final, Kevin Durant and friends all had to wait a while before they could stand on the podium and hear the anthem played.

At Tsurigasaki beach, the sand is dark, shines at times like silver and burns the feet. There, 100 kilometers south of Tokyo, history is being made, because it is the first time that surfing is at an Olympic Games.

Made by Sport chief executive Sophie Mason has called on community clubs to tap into a £1.79 million ($2.46 million/€2.10 million) Clubs in Crisis fund to build on the atmosphere created by the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

Judo is always a must-watch event at the Olympics, but this was particularly true in Tokyo.