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List 2/4 of sports events affected by coronavirus pandemic
By The Associated Press
Jul. 27, 2020 04:59 PM EDT
CANOE-KAYAK African Olympic canoe slalom qualifier in Basel, Switzerland from March 14-15 canceled. Pan American canoe...
List of sports events affected by the coronavirus pandemic
By The Associated Press
Jul. 27, 2020 04:57 PM EDT
AQUATICS Asian water polo championships in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, from Feb. 12-16 canceled. Diving Grand Prix in...
FILE - In this 1920 file photo, Charles (Charley) Paddock, second from right, of the USA wins the 100 meters final with his famous "flying finish" at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. Morris Kirksey, far right, of the USA was second, and Jackson Scholz of USA, left, was fourth. Third place Harry Edward not shown. (AP Photo/File)
Planning for Olympics in a pandemic has echoes of 1920 Games
By James Ellingworth
Jul. 27, 2020 04:19 PM EDT
FILE - In this Aug. 26, 1920, file photo, the Olympics are held at the Antwerp Stadium, showing the U.S. contingent leading all the athletes in the procession around the field on, after which they proceeded to lead all competition in the athletic events. (AP Photo/File)
AP WAS THERE: 1920 Olympics
Jul. 27, 2020 03:59 PM EDT
FILE - In this Aug. 26, 1920, file photo, the Olympics are held at the Antwerp Stadium, showing the U.S. contingent leading all the athletes in the procession around the field on, after which they proceeded to lead all competition in the athletic events. (AP Photo/File)
Antwerp 1920 Olympics haunted by war and flu pandemic
By James Ellingworth
Jul. 27, 2020 03:55 PM EDT
AP Sportlight
By The Associated Press
Jul. 27, 2020 10:25 AM EDT
July 28 1913 — The United States wins its first Davis Cup since 1902 by beating Britain three matches to two. 1928 —...
In a photo provided by NBC Sports, Molly Solomon, executive producer and president of NBC's Olympics production unit, poses for a photo in March 2020. With the Summer Olympics postponed a year due to the coronavirus, Solomon and her team have reset their countdown clocks while trying to adjust to a new set of challenges. Any Olympics provides plenty of compelling storylines, but Solomon says Tokyo takes on bigger importance with everything that has transpired worldwide this year. (Zi Wang/NBC Sports via AP)
NBC resets focus for Tokyo while looking ahead to Beijing
By Joe Reedy
Jul. 27, 2020 09:08 AM EDT
FILE - In this file photo dated Friday, Dec. 20, 2019, construction underway at the Lusail Stadium, one of the 2022 World Cup stadiums, in Lusail, Qatar. The gas-rich Persian Gulf nation Monday July 27, 2020, Qatar has expressed an interest in hosting the world’s biggest sporting events, the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games, in a letter to the International Olympic Committee.(AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, FILE)
Qatar interested in bidding for 2032 Olympics, Paralympics
By Rob Harris
Jul. 27, 2020 07:17 AM EDT
FILE - In this is undated file photo, Jim Thorpe poses in a baseball uniform. Thorpe was on top of the world after winning gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics with mind-blowing performances that went unmatched for decades. They so impressed the King of Sweden that he told Thorpe he was "the greatest athlete in the world.” The Native American was later stripped of the gold medals for breaching Olympic amateurism rules in what has been described as the first major international sports scandal. (AP Photo/File)
Thorpe's scandal-tainted 1912 golds still resonate, amaze
By Steve Douglas
Jul. 26, 2020 03:19 PM EDT
FILE - In this is undated file photo, Jim Thorpe poses in a baseball uniform. Thorpe was on top of the world after winning gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics with mind-blowing performances that went unmatched for decades. They so impressed the King of Sweden that he told Thorpe he was "the greatest athlete in the world.” The Native American was later stripped of the gold medals for breaching Olympic amateurism rules in what has been described as the first major international sports scandal. (AP Photo/File)
AP WAS THERE: 1912 Stockholm Olympics
Jul. 26, 2020 03:15 PM EDT
FILE - In this 1912 file photo, Albert Gutterson, of the United States, competes in the long jump at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm. Gutterson went on to win the gold. (Pressens Bild/TT via AP)
3 sporting trailblazers light up Stockholm Olympics in 1912
By Steve Douglas
Jul. 26, 2020 01:57 PM EDT
New head of 2022 Commonwealth Games after diversity concerns
Jul. 26, 2020 12:23 PM EDT
LONDON (AP) — Commonwealth Games Federation President Louise Martin has resigned from leading the organizing committee for the 2022 event in the central...
David Stern added to Women's Basketball Hall of Fame class
Jul. 25, 2020 05:33 PM EDT
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Late NBA Commissioner David Stern has been added to the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame induction class. ...
FILE - This 1908 file photo shows the start of the 100 kilometers cycling race at 1908 Olympics in London. (PA via AP, File)
Protests, disqualifications stoked controversy at 1908 Games
By Rob Harris
Jul. 25, 2020 02:07 PM EDT
A man wearing a mask against the spread of the new coronavirus walks at the Olympic rings in front of the New National Stadium Wednesday, July 22, 2020, in Tokyo. The postponed Tokyo Olympics have again reached the one-year-to-go mark. But the celebration is small this time with more questions than answers about how the Olympics can happen in the middle of a pandemic. That was before COVID-19 postponed the Olympics and pushed back the opening to July 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
Column: Olympic athletes ponder what might've been in Tokyo
By Paul Newberry
Jul. 24, 2020 06:41 PM EDT
FILE - Bob Costas attends the Friars Club Entertainment Icon Award ceremony honoring Billy Crystal in New York on Nov. 12, 2018. CNN announced that Costas will join their network as an on-air contributor. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)
Costas joins CNN to talk on intersection of news and sports
By David Bauder
Jul. 24, 2020 01:13 PM EDT
FILE - In this Aug. 1, 1936, file photo, German Nazi soldiers line up at attention during the opening ceremonies of the XI Summer Olympic Games at the Lustgarten in Berlin, Germany. The lighted Olympic torch is in the foreground. The torch relay was not always a fixture of the modern Olympics, which began in 1896. The relay tradition began with Adolph Hitler's 1936 Olympics in Berlin, the Games of the XI Olympiad, and was the brainchild of Dr. Carl Diem who was the head of the organizing committee. (AP Photo/File)
IOC apologizes, deletes tweet about 1936 Berlin Olympics
By Graham Dunbar
Jul. 24, 2020 12:45 PM EDT
This image provided by the Library of Congress, shows Thomas Hicks competing in the marathon at the 1904 Olympic games in St. Louis. The marathon may be the single most memorable event from the 1904 Games. The race took place in 90-degree heat on dusty roads with only a single water break, and 18 of the 32 athletes withdrew from exhaustion. . (Library of Congress, Meeting of Frontiers via AP)
AP WAS THERE: 1904 St. Louis Olympics
By The Associated Press
Jul. 24, 2020 11:37 AM EDT
This image provided by the Library of Congress, shows Myer Prinstein competing at the 1904 Olympic games in St. Louis. (Library of Congress, Meeting of Frontiers via AP)
St. Louis Olympics was really World's Fair with some sports
By Dave Skretta
Jul. 24, 2020 11:33 AM EDT
FILE - In this Oct. 20, 1968 file photo, Kipchoge Keino of Kenya hits finish line of 1968 Olympics 1500 meter run Oct. 20, 1968 in 3 minutes, 34.9 seconds for new Olympic record in Mexico City, Mexico. Kenyan athlete Jipcho has died at the age off 77, it was reported on Friday, July 24, 2020. Jipcho was famous for being the runner who sacrificed his own hopes of a medal to help teammate Kip Keino beat American and heavy favorite Jim Ryun to the gold medal in the 1,500 meters at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. (AP Photo, File)
Ben Jipcho, the 'rabbit' who helped Keino beat Ryun, dies
By Gerald Imray
Jul. 24, 2020 10:31 AM EDT