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FILE - In this March 4, 2020, file photo, people wearing masks walk past the Olympic rings near the New National Stadium in Tokyo. Local Japanese sponsors have chipped in a record $3.3 billion to organize the postponed Tokyo Olympics. That's almost 60% of the income for the privately funded operating budget. With the games delayed for a year, sponsors will be asked to sign up again. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
US Olympic museum to open July 30; will honor 1980 team
By Eddie Pells
Jul. 20, 2020 09:03 AM EDT
The Sydney Opera House is illuminated in support of Australia and New Zealand's joint bid to host the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023, in Sydney, Thursday, June 25, 2020. Australia and New Zealand will co-host the Women's World Cup in 2023, with the following edition possibly set to take place just two years later. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP Image via AP)
Australia women's national team coach Ante Milicic quits
Jul. 19, 2020 05:32 AM EDT
FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018 file photo, Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya and Harley Windsor of Australia watch as their scores are posted after their performance in the pair figure skating short program in the Gangneung Ice Arena at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea. Former world junior pairs figure skating champion Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya has died in Moscow, the Russian state news agency Tass reported Saturday, July 18, 2020 citing unnamed sources. Moscow police have yet to respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, file)
Former world junior skating champion Alexandrovskaya dies
Jul. 18, 2020 10:50 AM EDT
FILE - In this Oct. 25, 2014, file photo, Rulon Gardner's medals are shown at an auctioneer's warehouse in Salt Lake City, Utah. An Olympic Channel documentary debuting Wednesday, July 22, 2020, chronicles the highs and lows of Rulon Gardner in the 20 years since his stunning gold-medal victory in the 2000 Olympics. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
Film tracks Rulon Gardner's highs, lows in years since gold
By Eric Olson
Jul. 18, 2020 02:25 AM EDT
FILE - In this May 4, 2019, file photo, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach speaks at the Australian Olympic Committee annual general meeting in Sydney, Australia. During an interview with a German newspaper Sunday, April 12, 2020, Bach says the International Olympic Committee will face “several hundred million dollars”of added costs because of the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics until next year. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)
Bach warns against Olympic boycotts, seeks re-election
By Graham Dunbar
Jul. 17, 2020 12:46 PM EDT
In this image made from video released by Tokyo 2020 Official YouTube Channel, Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee President Yoshiro Mori, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo, Friday, July 17, 2020. Mori and CEO Toshiro Muto announced the competition schedule for next year's delayed Tokyo Olympics will remain almost identical to the one that would have been used this year. (Courtesy of Tokyo 2020 Official YouTube Channel via AP)
Tokyo Olympic venues lined up, schedule remains the same
By Stephen Wade
Jul. 17, 2020 10:33 AM EDT
FILE - This Feb. 6, 2014, file photo shows Bode Miller during the U.S. ski team's news conference at the Gorki media center at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. Olympic ski racing champion Bode Miller is launching a winter sports academy to help produce the next wave of standouts on the snow. Miller’s partnering with the Institute for Civic Leadership Academy to open an online learning program geared toward students in grades 7-12. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)
World class: Bode Miller launches winter sports academy
By Pat Graham
Jul. 16, 2020 01:10 PM EDT
FILE - In this Aug. 8, 2017, file photo, United States' Deajah Stevens races in a women's 200m first round heat during the World Athletics Championships in London. American sprinter Deajah Stevens was provisionally suspended Friday, May 1, 2020, for repeatedly being unavailable for doping tests.The Athletics Integrity Unit said Stevens amassed three whereabouts violations in a year. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
American sprinter Stevens banned 18 months for missed tests
By Graham Dunbar
Jul. 16, 2020 10:18 AM EDT
FILE - In this Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017, file photo, United States' Jordan Ernest Burroughs celebrates after defeating Khetik Tsabolov, of Russia, in the men's freestyle 74-kg category during the final of the Wrestling World Cup at the Paris Bercy Arena, in Paris, France. Burroughs, the face of U.S. wrestling for nearly a decade, said Wednesday, July 15, 2020, he plans to compete another four years with the hope of finishing his career at the Paris Olympics. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)
US wrestling star Burroughs planning to compete until 2024
By Eric Olson
Jul. 15, 2020 06:27 PM EDT
FILE - In this June 3, 2020, photo, the Olympic rings float in the water at sunset in the Odaiba section in Tokyo. The Japanese public is being prepared for the reality of next year's postponed Olympics where athletes are likely to face quarantines, spectators will be fewer, and the delay will cost taxpayers billions of dollars. In the last several weeks, IOC President Thomas Bach has given selected interviews outside Japan and hinted at empty stadiums, quarantines and virus testing. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
IOC postpones Dakar Youth Olympics by 4 years to 2026
By Graham Dunbar
Jul. 15, 2020 01:04 PM EDT
AP Sportlight
By The Associated Press
Jul. 15, 2020 09:47 AM EDT
July 16 1920 — Babe Ruth breaks his own season record of 29 homers with his 30th, and the New York Yankees beat the St. Louis Browns, 5-2....
FILE- In a Feb. 14, 2020 file photo, former Michigan State gymnastics coach Kathie Klages testifies in Lansing, Mich., during her trial where she faced two counts of lying to police. A jury found Klages guilty of lying to police when she denied that two teen athletes told her of sexual abuse by sports doctor Larry Nassar in 1997, nearly 20 years before he was charged. Klages is due to be sentenced on Wednesday, July 15, 2020. (Matthew Dae Smith/Lansing State Journal via AP_File)
Former coach's sentencing delayed in Nassar-related case
By Anna Liz Nichols
Jul. 15, 2020 09:18 AM EDT
Syracuse's Tiana Mangakahia makes Australian national team
Jul. 14, 2020 05:43 PM EDT
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Syracuse guard Tiana Mangakahia has been picked for the Australian women's national team. “I just feel honored for...
FILE - In this Aug. 10 2008, file photo, United States assistant coaches Mike D'Antoni,. left, and Nate McMillan watch during the men's basketball game at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Both coaches have spent an extended stretch away from home during the summer. While unprecedented as part of an NBA season, it isn’t exactly a foreign concept for those with USA Basketball experience like the Olympics and the World Cup. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic, File)
A long summer of basketball isn't new for everyone in NBA
By Tim Reynolds
Jul. 14, 2020 05:25 PM EDT
FILE - In this Feb. 13, 1972, file photo, Olympic rings in the center of the Makomanai ice arena is seen during the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics, in Sapporo, Japan. Yasuhiro Yamashita, the president of the Japanese Olympic Committee, said Tuesday, July 14, 2020, that if Tokyo can pull off next year’s Summer Olympics, then the Japanese city of Sapporo could be in good standing with a bid to hold the 2030 Winter Olympics. (AP Photo)
Tokyo Olympics could help Sapporo land 2030 Winter Games
By Koji Ueda And Stephen Wade
Jul. 14, 2020 09:15 AM EDT
Banned Olympic medalist now charged for false evidence
Jul. 14, 2020 08:47 AM EDT
MONACO (AP) — Olympic race walk silver medalist Maria Guadalupe Gonzalez lost her appeal against a four-year ban for doping and faced new charges on Tuesday...
FILE - In this Sunday, March 8, 2020, file photo, Minnesota Wild interim head coach Dean Evason, above center, directs players behind the bench during the overtime period of an NHL hockey game against the Anaheim Ducks in Anaheim, Calif. The Minnesota Wild made Dean Evason their full-time head coach on Monday, July 13, 2020, signing him to a two-year contract extension at the commencement of training camp for the restarted NHL season.(AP Photo/Alex Gallardo, File)
Wild drop interim tag to make Dean Evason full-time coach
By Dave Campbell
Jul. 13, 2020 05:47 PM EDT
USA Swimming adds meet in Southern California to pro series
Jul. 13, 2020 05:23 PM EDT
IRVINE, Calif. (AP) — USA Swimming has added a stop in Southern California to the TYR Pro Swim Series. The meet will be Nov. 12 to Nov. 15...
FILE - In this June 15, 2019, file photo, Mikaela Mayer, right, lands a right to Lizbeth Crespo in a boxing match in Las Vegas. Junior lightweight contender Mayer has tested positive for COVID-19 and has been pulled from the co-main event of Las Vegas’ first major boxing card since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
Fighters positive about the Covid Card in Las Vegas
By Tim Dahlberg
Jul. 13, 2020 02:49 PM EDT
List 4/4 of sports events affected by coronavirus pandemic
By The Associated Press
Jul. 13, 2020 02:39 PM EDT
SOFTBALL Men’s World Cup in Auckland, New Zealand from Feb. 20-28, 2021 postponed to Feb. 19-27, 2022. SUMO ...