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FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2013, file photo, John Fahey, president of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), speaks during a news conference in Johannesburg, South Africa. Fahey, a former president of the World Anti-Doping Agency and a key player in getting the 2000 Summer Olympics for Sydney, has died. He was 75. New South Wales state government officials on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020, confirmed Fahey's death. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)
Former World Anti-Doping Agency chief John Fahey dies at 75
By Dennis Passa
Sep. 12, 2020 12:26 AM EDT
FILE - In this March 25, 2020, file photo, Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), attends an interview after the decision to postpone the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games because of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Lausanne, Switzerland. Bach suggested that the Tokyo Olympics are a moving target. (Denis Balibouse/Keystone via AP, File)
Tokyo Olympic Q&A: Few answers yet with about 300 days to go
By Stephen Wade
Sep. 11, 2020 05:15 AM EDT
AP-Sportlight-Week Ahead
By The Associated Press
Sep. 10, 2020 01:41 PM EDT
Sept. 17 1920 — The forerunner of the NFL, the American Professional Football Association, is founded in an automobile showroom in Canton,...
British boxing great Alan Minter dies at age 69
Sep. 10, 2020 11:39 AM EDT
LONDON (AP) — Alan Minter, a British boxing great who followed up a bronze medal at the Olympics by becoming a world champion in the middleweight division in...
Visitors to Chongli, one of the venues for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, past by billboards promoting the event in Chongli in northern China's Hebei Province on Monday, Aug. 17, 2020. China’s repression in Tibet, the status of the exiled Dalai Lama, and its treatment of ethnic minorities spurred violent protests ahead of Beijing’s 2008 Olympics. It could happen again. China is host to the 2022 Winter Olympics with rumblings of a boycott and calls to remove the games from Beijing because of widespread human rights violations. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Human rights groups ask IOC to move Olympics from China
By Stephen Wade
Sep. 09, 2020 04:05 PM EDT
A man wearing a mask walks on a pedestrian bridge over the train tracks Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020, in Tokyo as a large display of Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics games are seen in the background. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
Bach: Vaccines won't be 'silver bullet' for staging Olympics
Sep. 09, 2020 04:01 PM EDT
Karsten Warholm of Norway competes in 400 meters hurdles at the Golden Spike athletic meeting in Ostrava, Czech Republic, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
Warholm wins 400 hurdles at Golden Spike meet in Ostrava
Sep. 08, 2020 03:47 PM EDT
FILE - In this Sunday, June 30, 2019 file photo, South Africa's Caster Semenya competes in the women's 800-meter race during the Prefontaine Classic, an IAAF Diamond League athletics meeting, in Stanford, Calif. USA. Two-time Olympic champion Caster Semenya finally lost her long legal battle at Switzerland’s supreme court Tuesday Sept. 8, 2020, against track and field’s rules that limit female runners’ naturally high testosterone levels. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, file)
Semenya loses at Swiss supreme court over testosterone rules
By Graham Dunbar And Gerald Imray
Sep. 08, 2020 03:34 PM EDT
FILE - In this Dec. 5, 2018, file photo, John Coates, the leader of the IOC's coordination commission for the Tokyo Olympics, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo. The International Olympic Committee and Japanese organizers are trying to remove public doubts that the postponed Tokyo Olympics will take place next year despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Tokyo organizing committee CEO Toshiro Muto said last week that the games could go ahead without a vaccine. This week John Coates, the IOC member from Australia who oversees the Tokyo Olympics, said the games would happen despite the pandemic.(AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)
Organizers, IOC trying to remove doubts over Tokyo Olympics
By Stephen Wade
Sep. 08, 2020 10:16 AM EDT
FILE - In this Dec. 9, 2019, file photo, Witold Banka, left, president-elect of World Anti-Doping Agency; Craig Reedle, right, WADA then-president; and Olivier Niggli, center, director general, arrive for a news conference in Lausanne, Switzerland. The World Anti-Doping Agency will consider rules changes that would allow it to sanction the United States if it stops paying its annual dues to the drug-fighting organization. “This matter has been raised by some concerned Governments, not by WADA’s leadership, and as is the case with any proposal raised by a stakeholder, WADA has an obligation to consider it carefully,” Banka, now the president of WADA, said in a news release Friday, Sept. 4, 2020. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP, File)
Pay or else? WADA to consider sanctions if US holds funding
By Eddie Pells
Sep. 04, 2020 07:53 PM EDT
A woman wearing a face mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus walks in front of Tokyo 2020 sign Friday, Sept. 4, 2020, in Tokyo. The CEO of the Tokyo Olympics Toshiro Mut said Friday that having a vaccine is not a requirement for holding next year Olympics and Paralympics. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
Tokyo Olympic CEO: Vaccine not requirement to hold games
By Stephen Wade
Sep. 04, 2020 08:07 AM EDT
FILE - In this June 3, 2020, photo, the Olympic rings float in the water at sunset in the Odaiba section in Tokyo. The Tokyo Olympics are already the most expensive Summer Games on record with costs set to go higher, a wide-ranging study from Britain's University of Oxford indicates. This is even before the costs of the one-year delay from the COVID-19 pandemic are known with the cost overrun already at over 200%, lead author Bent Flyvbjerg explained in an interview with the Associated Press. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
Oxford study: Tokyo Olympics are most costly Summer Games
By Stephen Wade
Sep. 04, 2020 12:33 AM EDT
Olympic official Høyer reveals Parkinson's diagnosis
Sep. 03, 2020 08:33 AM EDT
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Olympic official and 1996 gold medalist Poul-Erik Høyer has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, badminton’s governing body...
Dustin Johnson lines his putt on the first green during the final round of the BMW Championship golf tournament at the Olympia Fields Country Club in Olympia Fields, Ill., Sunday, Aug. 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Timing is everything for 4 players who get into the US Open
By Doug Ferguson
Sep. 01, 2020 03:55 PM EDT
This combination of images provided by LA28 shows logos released Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020, by the Los Angeles Olympic organizing committee features a black “L” and a “28" being paired with the letter “A” which is designed to show up in almost any color, shape or configuration as a way of representing the diversity of the Los Angeles community. (LA28 via AP)
LA2028 unveils diversity logo; CEO preaches need for change
By Eddie Pells
Sep. 01, 2020 01:57 PM EDT
FILE - In this Saturday, Feb. 8, 2020 file photo, first placed Germany's Viktoria Rebensburg celebrates on the podium of an alpine ski, women's World Cup downhill, in Garmish Partenkirchen, Germany. Rebensburg, who won the Olympic gold medal in giant slalom in 2010, announced her retirement Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020 at the age of 30 after an injury. (AP Photo/Marco Tacca, File)
Olympic giant slalom champion Rebensburg retires at 30
Sep. 01, 2020 10:10 AM EDT
Sonny Bill Williams of the Sydney Roosters National Rugby League team passes a ball during a training session in Sydney, August 15, 2020. Ex-New Zealand All Blacks star Williams is set to play in the National Rugby League for the first time since 2014 after being included on the Roosters' interchange bench for a Grand Final rematch against the Canberra Raiders on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020. (Dean Lewins/AAP Image via AP)
Roosters pick Sonny Bill Williams for NRL comeback v Raiders
Sep. 01, 2020 03:50 AM EDT
A lantern containing the Olympic Flame is shown prior to public display Monday, Aug. 31, 2020, in Tokyo. The Olympic flame is going on display in Tokyo, just a short walk from the new National Stadium where it was supposed to be burning a month ago.(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
Olympic flame going on display in Japan Olympic Museum
By Stephen Wade
Aug. 31, 2020 08:13 AM EDT
Japanese swim star Rikako Ikee reacts after a women’s 50-meter freestyle at a local race meet, Saturday, Aug. 29, 2020, at Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center in Tokyo. Ikee, who revealed in February last year she had leukemia, returned to competitive swimming on Saturday. The meet was organized by the Tokyo Swimming Association to give athletes a chance to compete following the cancellation of so many other meets this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.(Kyodo News via AP)
Japanese swimmer Rikako Ikee back after leukemia treatment
By Koji Ueda And Stephen Wade
Aug. 29, 2020 08:29 AM EDT
FILE - In this Aug. 21, 2016, file photo, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appears as the Nintendo game character Super Mario during the closing ceremony at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Abe was a star of the closing ceremony of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, parading before a 70,000 sellout at the Maracana stadium as Nintendo game character Super Mario. It was Abe's humorous invitation to the next Olympics in Tokyo. (Yu Nakajima/Kyodo News via AP, File)
Shinzo Abe -- aka 'Super Mario' -- loses out on Olympics
By Stephen Wade
Aug. 28, 2020 10:00 PM EDT