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FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2018 file photo, Larry Nassar, former sports doctor who admitted molesting some of the nation's top gymnasts, appears in Eaton County Court in Charlotte, Mich. The sentencing Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020, of former Michigan State University head gymnastics coach Kathie Klages to 90 days in jail for lying to police during an investigation into ex-Olympic and university doctor Larry Nassar is the latest development from the sexual assault scandal that has rocked the school.  (Matthew Dae Smith/Lansing State Journal via AP, File)
How the Larry Nassar scandal has affected others
By The Associated Press
Aug. 04, 2020 01:20 PM EDT
In this image provided by the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC), United States wrestler Lee Kemp, top, competes in the 1979 Pan American Games in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The U.S. boycott of the Moscow Olympics crushed Kemp's dreams, along with all the predictions that he would win a gold medal. (Walter Meives/USOPC via AP)
BOYCOTT GAMES: Wrestler finds peace despite road not taken
By Eddie Pells
Aug. 04, 2020 01:05 PM EDT
AP Sportlight
By The Associated Press
Aug. 04, 2020 10:23 AM EDT
Aug. 5 1921 — Radio station KDKA and announcer Harold Arlin provide the first broadcast of a major league game as the Pirates beat the...
FILE - In this March 14, 2020, file photo, snow falls on the Olympic Rings near the New National Stadium in Tokyo. Day 11 of the postponed Tokyo Olympics finally brought what was feared the most before the pandemic postponed the games for a year: A hot and humid Tokyo summer day. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
Day 11 of postponed Tokyo Games finally brings summer heat
By Stephen Wade
Aug. 04, 2020 02:55 AM EDT
List 2/4 of sports events affected by coronavirus pandemic
By The Associated Press
Aug. 03, 2020 04:15 PM EDT
CANOE-KAYAK African Olympic canoe slalom qualifier in Basel, Switzerland from March 14-15 canceled. Pan American canoe...
List 4/4 of sports events affected by coronavirus pandemic
By The Associated Press
Aug. 03, 2020 04:13 PM EDT
SOFTBALL Men’s World Cup in Auckland, New Zealand from Feb. 20-28, 2021 postponed to Feb. 19-27, 2022. SUMO ...
List 3/4 of sports events affected by coronavirus pandemic
By The Associated Press
Aug. 03, 2020 04:11 PM EDT
GYMNASTICS Artistic World Cup in Melbourne, Australia, from Feb. 20-23: China team withdrew. All-Around World Cup in...
List of sports events affected by the coronavirus pandemic
By The Associated Press
Aug. 03, 2020 04:09 PM EDT
AQUATICS Asian water polo championships in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, from Feb. 12-16 canceled. Diving Grand Prix in...
Hungarian water polo player Ervin Zador, his eye cut during a fight with a Russian player in the closing stages of the Hungary vs. Russia water polo match is consoled by Hungarian team captain Dezso Gyarmati after the incident. The Melbourne Olympics were already quite unique before they started. They were the first games held in the southern hemisphere, and ran from Nov. 22 to Dec. 8 to take in the Australian summer. (AP Photo)
"Blood in the Water:" War in the 1956 Olympic pool
By Dennis Passa
Aug. 03, 2020 02:15 PM EDT
Hungarian water polo player Ervin Zador, his eye cut during a fight with a Russian player in the closing stages of the Hungary vs. Russia water polo match is consoled by Hungarian team captain Dezso Gyarmati after the incident. The Melbourne Olympics were already quite unique before they started. They were the first games held in the southern hemisphere, and ran from Nov. 22 to Dec. 8 to take in the Australian summer. (AP Photo)
AP WAS THERE: 1956 Melbourne Olympics "Blood in the Water"
By The Associated Press
Aug. 03, 2020 01:59 PM EDT
FILE - In this April 11, 1980, file photo, Anita DeFrantz, of Princeton, N.J., a member of the Olympic rowing team and the Olympic Advisory Council, talks to members of the media at a news conference in Colorado Springs, Colo. At her right is Peter Schnugg a member of the U.S. water polo team from Orinda, Calf. They discussed the athlete's view concerning a possible Olympic boycott. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)
BOYCOTT GAMES: Former US water polo star looks back on 1980
By Jay Cohen
Aug. 03, 2020 01:55 PM EDT
FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2020, file photo, United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee CEO Sarah Hirshland listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a briefing with the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Los Angeles 2028 organizers in Beverly Hills, Calif. New financial reports from the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee include unprecedented detail about money that goes to the sports organizations it oversees. It's a feature the federation is hoping will add layers of information to help people decipher its often opaque accounting picture. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
USOPC opens books, gives more detail about sports funding
By Eddie Pells
Aug. 03, 2020 12:26 PM EDT
FILE - In this Nov. 24, 1956, file photo, German inside right Rolf K. Geiger, right, gets the ball past a Soviet defender during the Germany vs Russia Olympic Association Football match on the Olympic Park football field in Melbourne, Australia on. Russia won 2-1. (AP Photo/Stuart Heydinger, File)
1956 Melbourne Olympics: 1st Games in southern hemisphere
By Dennis Passa
Aug. 03, 2020 11:49 AM EDT
AP Sportlight
By The Associated Press
Aug. 03, 2020 10:25 AM EDT
Aug. 4 1884 — Pud Galvin pitches the most lopsided no-hitter in major league history as the Buffalo Bisons power past the Detroit...
Belgium's Wout Van Aert leads the field during the "Strade Bianche" cycling race from Siena to Siena, Italy, Saturday, Aug. 1, 2020. (Fabio Ferrari/LaPresse via AP)
The Latest: Copenhagen Tour de France start moved to 2022
By The Associated Press
Aug. 03, 2020 08:51 AM EDT
FILE - In this July 22, 2018, file photo, Tokyo 2020 Paralympic mascot "Someity" stands at stage during their debut event in Tokyo. The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic schedule remains essentially unchanged for the event postponed until next year, organizers said on Monday, Aug. 3, 2020. Tokyo organizers made the same announcement several weeks ago for the postponed Olympics. The Paralympics open on Aug. 24, 2021, and close on Sept. 5. The Olympics are to open on July 23. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
Tokyo Paralympic competition schedule will be same next year
By Stephen Wade
Aug. 02, 2020 11:21 PM EDT
AP Sportlight
By The Associated Press
Aug. 02, 2020 01:03 PM EDT
Aug. 3 1852 — The first intercollegiate rowing race is held on Lake Winnipesaukee, N.H., where Harvard beats Yale by four lengths on the 2...
FILE - In this July 26, 1952, file photo, Bob Mathias, defending Olympic decathlon champion, heaves the discus during the decathlon competition at the Summer Olympic games in Helsinki, Finland. (AP Photo/File)
1952 Helsinki: The Cold War comes to the Olympics
By Will Graves
Aug. 02, 2020 12:28 PM EDT
FILE - In this July 24, 1952, file photo, British athlete Christopher "Chris" Chataway falls as Emil Zatopek of Czechoslovakia, followed by Alain Mimoun of France and German bronze medal winner Herbert Schade, leads near the end of the Men's final 5000 meter race at the Summer Olympic Games on in Helsinki, Finland. (AP Photo/File)
AP WAS THERE: 1952 Helsinki Games
By The Associated Press
Aug. 02, 2020 12:25 PM EDT
Benn Fields holds a high jump crossbar which he called "The Benn" at his home, Friday, July 31, 2020, in Salisbury Mills, N.Y. Fields will forever be known as a U.S. Olympian, he will also always wonder about what might have been had the U.S. government not spearheaded a boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow.(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
BOYCOTT GAMES: Fields harbors no anger despite missing '80
By Eddie Pells
Aug. 02, 2020 09:03 AM EDT