Construction work on the new National Stadium, the main venue for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, has been completed at a final cost of ¥157 billion (£1.2 billion/$1.4 billion/€1.3 billion), the Japan Sport Council (JSC) announced today. 

Tokyo 2020's mascot robots were demonstrated for the first time today at Hoyonomori Elementary School in the Japanese capital.

Marathons and race walks at next year's Olympic Games, controversially moved from Tokyo to Sapporo, are set to start and finish at Odori Park following a proposal put forward by organisers at a meeting today.

Additional cooling periods during competition will be implemented by Tokyo 2020 following discussions with International Federations on heat countermeasures for the Olympic Games, it was announced today. 

Boston Consulting Group K.K (BCG Japan) has been announced as a Tokyo 2020 official supporter, taking their number of domestic partners to 66.

Worldwide Olympic and Paralympic Partner Bridgestone has announced that the name for its barrier-less bus stop curb system, to be used at the Tokyo 2020 Athletes' Village, is PlusStop.

A contender for an Olympic medal in the race walks next year has claimed the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has moved his event and the marathon from Tokyo to Sapporo to try to protect itself, not because they are concerned about the health of the athletes.

Tokyo 2020 has announced that flowers grown in areas affected by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake will be used in the bouquets presented to medallists at next year's Olympics and Paralympics.

The second Tokyo 2020 Olympic ticket lottery has launched today for residents of Japan.

Tokyo 2020 have appointed dancer Exile Hiro as cultural director of the Olympic Torch Relay Takeover Ceremony in Athens.

Marathon champion Mizuki Noguchi will be the first Japanese person to carry the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Torch, it has been confirmed.

Olympic marathon champion Mizuki Noguchi and Japanese footballers who lifted the FIFA Women's World Cup in 2011 are being tipped to play key roles in the Tokyo 2020 Torch Relay.

Spanish opera singer Plácido Domingo, who has been accused of sexual harassment by several women, has withdrawn from performing at a cultural event being organised in conjunction with next year's Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo.

Applications for the second Tokyo 2020 Olympic ticket lottery are due begin on November 13 for residents in Japan, it was announced today. 

The men's marathon at next year's Olympics is set to be rescheduled so it will no longer be the last athletics event of the Games after it was controversially relocated from Tokyo to Sapporo, it was revealed today.