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List 3/4 of sports events affected by coronavirus pandemic
By The Associated Press
Jul. 13, 2020 02:37 PM EDT
GYMNASTICS Artistic World Cup in Melbourne, Australia, from Feb. 20-23: China team withdrew. All-Around World Cup in...
List 2/4 of sports events affected by coronavirus pandemic
By The Associated Press
Jul. 13, 2020 02:33 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. 13, 2020 02:33 PM EDT
AQUATICS Asian water polo championships in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, from Feb. 12-16 canceled. Diving Grand Prix in...
FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 28, 2020 file photo, Yevgeny Yurchenko speaks during a news conference after being elected as the new President of the Russian Athletics Federation in Moscow, Russia. The program allowing Russian track athletes to compete internationally will be frozen because the country's federation failed to pay a fine on time, World Athletics said Thursday, July 2. The Russian track federation (RusAF) owes a $5 million fine and another $1.31 million in costs for various doping-related work and legal wrangles. RusAF president Yevgeny Yurchenko earlier told the Tass state news agency that his federation's finances were damaged by the coronavirus pandemic and that it had asked for more time to pay. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, file)
Russian athletics president resigns amid doping stalemate
Jul. 13, 2020 01:28 PM EDT
UK Sport says welfare not risked with athlete substance test
Jul. 12, 2020 02:18 PM EDT
LONDON (AP) — The UK Sport government agency said athletes’ welfare was not put at risk with the use of an experimental substance ahead of the 2012 London...
New York Yankees relief pitcher Aroldis Chapman, left, leaves the field after a bullpen session with catcher Gary Sanchez after a bullpen session during a baseball summer training camp workout Sunday, July 5, 2020, at Yankee Stadium in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
The Latest: Pop keeping eye on Japan, and Olympic hopes
By The Associated Press
Jul. 11, 2020 08:15 PM EDT
FILE - In this July 1, 2019, file photo, Boston Celtics assistant coach Kara Lawson passes the ball at the team's training facility in Boston. A person familiar with the situation says Duke is in talks with Boston Celtics assistant coach and former WNBA All-Star Lawson to lead the Blue Devils women’s basketball program. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Friday, July 10, 2020, because the school has not commented publicly on its search. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
Duke hires Celtics' Lawson to lead women's basketball team
By Aaron Beard
Jul. 11, 2020 04:09 PM EDT
British Olympic gymnasts decry 'abusive behavior'
Jul. 10, 2020 10:51 AM EDT
LONDON (AP) — British Olympians Becky and Ellie Downie say they've suffered from abusive behavior in gymnastics training for many years, adding their voices to...
Allyson Felix crosses the finish line of the women's 3x100m relay at the Weltklasse Zürich Inspiration Games at Mt. San Antonio College on Thursday, July 9, 2020, in Walnut, Calif. Athletes competed from seven different locations around the world. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
Race glitch for Lyles highlights rare track meet in 2020
By Graham Dunbar
Jul. 09, 2020 05:05 PM EDT
AP Sportlight
By The Associated Press
Jul. 09, 2020 12:43 PM EDT
July 15 1912 — Jim Thorpe wins the decathlon at the Stockholm Olympics. At the closing ceremony, Sweden’s King Gustav proclaims Thorpe the...
China cancels all international sports events for the year
Jul. 09, 2020 08:43 AM EDT
BEIJING (AP) — China says it will not stage any international sports for the rest of the year, apart from trials for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing...
FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2017, file photo, winner Alex Pullin from Australia cheers at the snow boarding cross World Cup in Feldberg, Germany. Two-time world snowboard champion and Winter Olympian Alex Pullin drowned Wednesday, July 8, 2020, while spearfishing on Australia’s Gold Coast. (Patrick Seeger/dpa via AP, File)
Snowboard world champion Pullin drowns in diving mishap
Jul. 08, 2020 02:15 AM EDT
Ex-USOC spokesman Mike Moran dead at 78 after short illness
Jul. 07, 2020 11:21 PM EDT
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (AP) — Former US Olympic Committee spokesman Mike Moran died Tuesday after a short illness at age 78, according to the University of...
FILE - This Aug. 23, 2019, file photo shows International Ice Hockey Federation President Rene Fasel watching the opening ceremony of the 2019 Sirius Junior Club World Cup ice hockey tournament in Sochi, Russia. Fasel is encouraged upon learning the NHL’s tentatively agreed to labor deal opens the possibility of the league allowing its players to return to Olympic competition. Aside from the uncertainty raised by the global COVID-19 pandemic, Fasel told The Associated Press by phone Tuesday, July 7, 2020, he doesn’t foresee any major stumbling blocks that could derail negotiations leading up to the 2022 Beijing Games.(Alexei Nikolsky/Sputnik, Kremlin via AP, Pool, File)
IIHF encouraged by NHL's potential return to Olympics in '22
By John Wawrow
Jul. 07, 2020 11:12 PM EDT
Lawyer to investigate abuse allegations by British gymnasts
By Rob Harris
Jul. 07, 2020 03:56 PM EDT
LONDON (AP) — The British Gymnastics governing body has launched of an independent review into allegations of abuse in the sport. Catherine...
Copenhagen pulls out of hosting 2021 gymnastics worlds
Jul. 07, 2020 12:37 PM EDT
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Denmark has pulled out of hosting the gymnastics world championships in 2021, the sport’s governing body said Tuesday. ...
FILE - In this March 12, 2020, file photo, crews cover the ice at American Airlines Center in Dallas, home of the Dallas Stars hockey team, after the NHL season was put on hold due to the coronavirus. Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly told The Associated Press on Sunday, July 5, that the NHL and NHL Players’ Association have agreed on protocols to resume the season. Daly said the sides are still negotiating a collective bargaining agreement extension. A CBA extension is still crucial to the process. (Ashley Landis/The Dallas Morning News via AP, File)
NHL, players announce labor deal, plan to resume play Aug. 1
By John Wawrow And Stephen Whyno
Jul. 07, 2020 12:10 AM EDT
Tokyo's newly reelected Gov. Yuriko Koike, right, meets Tokyo 2020 President Yoshiro Mori at Tokyo Metropolitan Government headquarters in Tokyo Monday, July 6, 2020. Koike assured Mori that she plans to continue working with him on achieving the games, and agreed to his proposal to set up a meeting among officials from the government, Tokyo and Olympic organizers to discuss COVID-19 countermeasures. (Kyodo News via AP)
Tokyo Olympics seek COVID-19 defenses, but what exactly?
By Stephen Wade
Jul. 06, 2020 12:54 PM EDT
Holdorf, 1964 Olympic decathlon champion, dies at 80
Jul. 06, 2020 12:21 PM EDT
BERLIN (AP) — Willi Holdorf, the 1964 Olympic decathlon champion, has died. He was 80. Holdorf died at home in northern Germany on Sunday...
Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike, left, talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the prime minister's office in Tokyo Monday, July 6, 2020. Gov. Koike, who won her second term to head the Japanese capital in Sunday's election, met with her political rival, Prime Minister Abe and agreed to cooperate in their effort to fight against the coronavirus and to safely achieve the Olympics next year. (Yoshitaka Sugawara/Kyodo News via AP)
Tokyo governor, Abe say they'll cooperate on virus, Olympics
By Mari Yamaguchi
Jul. 06, 2020 07:05 AM EDT