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Asian Champions League to look at game hub venues for 2021
Sep. 25, 2020 11:57 AM EDT
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The Asian Champions League could play a second season in centralized hub venues next year because of the coronavirus pandemic,...
President of Tokyo 2020 Yoshiro Mori wears a face mask before he leaves a joint press conference between the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, in Tokyo. (Rodrigo Reyes Marin/Pool Photo via AP)
Tokyo Olympics and IOC find mostly minor areas to 'simplify'
By Stephen Wade
Sep. 25, 2020 09:43 AM EDT
FILE - In this Sunday, March 9, 2014 file photo, Russia's Olga Zaitseva celebrates her third place in the women's 12.5km mass start at the biathlon World Cup competition in Pokljuka, Slovenia. Two-time Olympic biathlon champion Olga Zaitseva lost her appeal Thursday Sept. 24, 2020, against disqualification from the 2014 Sochi Olympics for her part in Russia’s state-backed doping program. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic, File)
Russian Olympic biathlon champion loses Sochi doping case
By Graham Dunbar
Sep. 24, 2020 06:21 PM EDT
AP-Sportlight-Week Ahead
By The Associated Press
Sep. 24, 2020 12:57 PM EDT
Sept. 27 1894 — Aqueduct Race Track opens its doors. The building is torn down in 1955 and the new Aqueduct reopens on Sept. 14, 1959. ...
Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee President Yoshiro Mori, left, talks with Minister for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games Seiko Hashimoto after opening remarks session of an on-line meeting focused on how to pull off the delayed Tokyo Games, in Tokyo, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020. IOC President Thomas Bach delivered a pep talk to Japanese government officials and local organizers on Thursday that included suggestions that “hundreds of millions”of doses COVID-19 vaccines would be available before the postponed Olympic are to open on July 23, 2021. (Du Xiaoyi/Pool Photo via AP)
Bach offers pep session for Tokyo Games and talks up vaccine
By Stephen Wade
Sep. 24, 2020 07:01 AM EDT
FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019 file photo, United States forward Tobin Heath, left, passes the ball in front of Sweden defender Hanna Glas during the first half of a women's international friendly soccer match in Columbus, Ohio. Tobin Heath will soon be hoping to play at Old Trafford again. The winger has more chance now she has signed for Manchester United, although the Women’s Super League team has yet to play in the stadium that has been home to the men’s side for 110 years. (AP Photo/Paul Vernon, File)
Man United recruit Heath eager to play at Old Trafford again
By Rob Harris
Sep. 23, 2020 05:28 PM EDT
In this June 11, 2019, file photo, Toshiro Muto, CEO of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics organizing committee, listens to questions from the media during a news conference in Tokyo. Tokyo CEO Muto and other Olympic officials are proposing that the government relax immigration regulations, allowing athletes to enter the country before next year’s postponed games and train during a 14-day quarantine period. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
Tokyo Olympics CEO suggests relaxed entry rules for athletes
By Stephen Wade
Sep. 23, 2020 08:49 AM EDT
Denver Nuggets' Nikola Jokic (15) shoots over Los Angeles Lakers' Dwight Howard (39) during the first half of an NBA conference final playoff basketball game Sunday, Sept. 20, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Silver to CNN: A later NBA season may disrupt Olympic plans
By Tim Reynolds
Sep. 22, 2020 03:17 PM EDT
FILE - In this May 4, 2019, file photo, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, right, is presented with the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) President's trophy by AOC president John Coates at the AOC annual general meeting in Sydney, Australia. The only thing more difficult than staging next year's Tokyo Olympics in a pandemic might be convincing sponsors to keep their billions on board in the midst of economic turbulence and skepticism. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)
Tokyo needs to convince sponsors Olympics will really happen
By Stephen Wade
Sep. 22, 2020 07:01 AM EDT
Former track federation president Lamine Diack, centre left, leaves the courtroom after his trial in Paris, France, Wednesday, September 16, 2020. Diack has been sentenced to two years in prison for his role in a scheme that allowed Russian athletes who paid hush money to keep competing when they should have been suspended for doping.(AP Photo/Rafael Yaghobzadeh)
Olympic bid scandal linked to former IOC member's son
Sep. 21, 2020 11:34 AM EDT
FILE - In this Monday, Aug. 27, 2018 file photo, Bahrain's Hassan Chani celebrates on the podium after winning the gold medal in the men's 10,000m final during the athletics competition at the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia. Chani has been banned for four years on Thursday, Sept.17, 2020 for blood doping and stripped of his 2018 Asian Games gold medal. The Athletics Integrity Unit says Chani’s doping was shown by changes in the blood values in his biological passport. He was disqualified from all of his results since August 2017. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)
Asian Games gold medalist runner banned 4 years for doping
Sep. 17, 2020 11:41 AM EDT
Japan's new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga attends an extraordinary session at the upper house of parliament Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020, in Tokyo. Suga started his first full day in office Thursday, with a resolve to push for reforms for the people, and he said he is already taking a crack at it. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
New Japanese PM gets word out: He supports Tokyo Olympics
By Koji Ueda
Sep. 17, 2020 08:30 AM EDT
FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2018, file photo, driver Justin Olsen and Christopher Fogt, Carlo Valdes and Nathan Weber, of the United States, start their third heat during the four-man bobsled final at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. USA Bobsled and Skeleton couldn't hit the road recruiting this summer because of the coronavirus pandemic. So, they made Olympic hopefuls come to them and do so online. USABS took its recruiting process digital this year and team officials say it has led to significant upticks in interest. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)
For some bobsled hopefuls, the Olympics may be a click away
By Tim Reynolds
Sep. 17, 2020 03:08 AM EDT
Figure skater Medvedeva returns to coach Tutberidze
Sep. 16, 2020 10:27 AM EDT
MOSCOW (AP) — Olympic silver medalist Evgenia Medvedeva said Wednesday she has returned to working with Eteri Tutberidze, the Russian figure skating coach who...
This Sept. 18, 2015 photo shows Jeff Shattler, of the Iroquois Nationals during the 2015 World Indoor Lacrosse Championships on the Onondaga Nation Reservation just south of Syracuse, New York. The Ireland Lacrosse team recently bowed out of the sport's top international tournament to open up a spot for the Iroquois Nationals. It's the latest in a series of gestures between the country and U.S. tribes that date back to 1847, when Choctaw leaders gave $170 to the Irish as their country battled a potato famine that resulted in the death of tens of thousands. Historians estimate today's value of the amount at roughly $5,000. (Jourdan Bennett-Begaye, Indian Country Today via AP)
Friendship between Ireland, tribes lives on in lacrosse
By Dalton Walker, Indian Country Today
Sep. 15, 2020 09:57 PM EDT
The Olympic rings is seen at Tokyo's Odaiba district Tuesday, March 24, 2020. The CEO of the Tokyo Olympics and the IOC member in charge of Japan's games have both dismissed a new study from the University of Oxford that finds Tokyo is the most expensive Summer Games dating back to 1960. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
Tokyo, IOC dismiss study showing Olympic costs rising
By Stephen Wade
Sep. 15, 2020 09:19 AM EDT
A video screen shows Cathy Freeman lighting the Olympic Cauldron as part of the 20th anniversary celebrations of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020. Freeman, who lit the cauldron at the original opening ceremony and won the 400-meter race at the track in one of the country's all-time great sporting moments, said it was a wonderful gesture to have "two future stars" recognized on such a major stage ahead of the rescheduled 2020 Games in Tokyo next year. (Dean Lewins/AAP Image via AP)
Thorpe, Freeman celebrate 20-year Sydney Games anniversary
By Dennis Passa
Sep. 14, 2020 09:47 PM EDT
AP sources: Lake Placid won't host 2021 bobsled worlds
By Tim Reynolds
Sep. 14, 2020 03:09 PM EDT
Lake Placid will no longer be the host of this season’s bobsled and skeleton world championships because of concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, according...
FILE - In this Sept. 12, 2020, file photo, Naomi Osaka, of Japan, holds up the championship trophy after defeating Victoria Azarenka, of Belarus, in the women's singles final of the US Open tennis championships, in New York. Osaka's victory in the U.S. Open helped raised the issue of racial injustice in the United States. Before each of her matches, she wore a mask with the names of seven Black Americans who died as victims of violence. The daughter of a Japanese mother and Haitian father, she has become a leader of the Black Lives Matter movement. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Japan celebrates Osaka; Sponsors cautious about activism
By Yuri Kageyama And Stephen Wade
Sep. 14, 2020 04:52 AM EDT
FILE - In this July 7, 2019, file photo, United States' Alex Morgan controls the ball during the Women's World Cup final soccer match against The Netherlands at the Stade de Lyon in Decines, outside Lyon, France. Tottenham secured the biggest signing yet in a summer of high-profile acquisitions in the Women’s Super League by bringing in United States striker Alex Morgan on a one-season deal. The 31-year-old Morgan will play in England for the first time and moves four months after giving birth to her first child. (AP Photo/David Vincent, File)
Alex Morgan joins influx of top Americans in English league
By Steve Douglas
Sep. 12, 2020 02:02 PM EDT