The captain of the Japanese gymnastics team was sent home from France and will not participate at the Olympic Games later this month for allegedly breaking a team ban on smoking and drinking alcohol.

One week before the Opening Ceremony, the 19-year-old captain of Japan’s women’s gymnastics team has been sent home after she admitted to underage smoking and drinking. The Japan Gymnastics ...

The Japanese artistic gymnastics team has sent its captain home from Olympics training for violating the team’s smoking ban. Shoko Miyata was sent home from Monaco, where the team is training, because ...

Japan’s star gymnast, Shoko Miyata, the captain of the women’s team for the Paris Olympics, was sent home after an investigation concluded she violated the code of conduct by smoking cigarettes and ...

Shoko Miyata, the 19-year-old captain of the Japan women’s artistic gymnastics team, has withdrawn from the squad for the Paris Games after violating the team’s code of conduct by smoking, the ...

Japanese gymnast Shoko Miyata’s Olympic dreams came to a stunning end Thursday when she was sent home from training camp in Monaco for allegedly violating the team’s smoking ban. Miyata, the captain ...

PARIS — How important is men’s gymnastics to the Japanese? Important enough that Shun Fujimoto kept competing after breaking his right kneecap and ripping leg ligaments on floor exercise at the 1976 ...

Japan's women's gymnastics team will be without captain Shoko Miyata at the 2024 Olympics due to a code of conduct violation. The Japanese Gymnastics Association announced on Friday that Miyata, who ...