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IOC gives sports new advice on transgender athlete rules

Nov. 16, 2021 03:18 PM EST

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Aiming to help sports write eligibility rules for transgender athletes, the IOC published advice Tuesday shifting the focus from...

French skier Théaux crashes in training, will miss Olympics

Nov. 16, 2021 08:40 AM EST

COPPER MOUNTAIN, Colo. (AP) — Three-time Olympian Adrien Théaux underwent surgery after he crashed in training in the United States and will miss the Olympic...

Hockey Hall of Fame inductees, from left, Doug Wilson, Kim St-Pierre, Kevin Lowe, Jarome Iginla, Marian Hossa and Ken Holland pose for a photograph in Toronto, Friday, Nov. 12, 2021. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)

Iginla highlights class inducted into Hockey Hall of Fame

Nov. 15, 2021 11:40 PM EST

Swiatek spoils Badosa's birthday at WTA Finals

By Carlos Rodriguez

Nov. 15, 2021 07:26 PM EST

GUADALAJARA, Mexico (AP) — Iga Swiatek departed the WTA Finals with a win after spoiling Paula Badosa's birthday 7-5, 6-4 on Monday. The...

Kunlun Red Star's Brandon Yip in action during the Kontinental Hockey League ice hockey match between Kunlun Red Star Beijing and Amur Khabarovsk in Mytishchi, just outside Moscow, Russia, Monday, Nov. 15, 2021. Many of Kunlun Red Star's players are aiming to represent the Chinese national team at the Olympics in Beijing. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Chinese hockey team loses 1st trial game for Olympics in OT

Nov. 15, 2021 04:49 PM EST

USA Basketball picks team for initial 2 World Cup qualifiers

Nov. 15, 2021 01:22 PM EST

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — USA Basketball has picked its initial team for the opening games of qualifying for the 2023 World Cup. ...

Women's pro volleyball league returning to Dallas in 2022

Nov. 15, 2021 11:26 AM EST

DALLAS (AP) — U.S. Olympic champion Jordan Larson is among the players expected to return to Dallas for the second year of a unique player-controlled pro...

Uno shines on home ice at NHK Trophy, Zhou 2nd

By Jim Armstrong

Nov. 13, 2021 08:44 AM EST

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Shoma Uno landed four quadruple jumps on Saturday to win the NHK Trophy and bolster his prospects for the figure skating event at the 2022...

FILE - Kunlun Red Star's team players celebrate after they won the Kontinental Hockey League match against Spartak Moscow, Oct. 1, 2016, in Moscow, Russia. Next week near Moscow, China will play two games as Beijing-based KHL team Kunlun Red Star against Russian opponents. IIHF and Chinese hockey officials will be watching closely, in person and online, and hoping the team is not going to be embarrassed against NHL competition at the Winter Games in February. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)

Officials worry China’s men’s hockey team not Olympics ready

By Stephen Whyno

Nov. 12, 2021 05:39 PM EST

FILE - Medalists in the men's high jump, from left, Canada's Derek Drouin, bronze, United States' Erik Kynard, silver, Russia's Ivan Ukhov, gold, Britain's Robert Grabarz , bronze, and Qatar's Mutaz Essa Barshim, bronze, pose for the media during the athletics in the Olympic Stadium at the 2012 Summer Olympics, London, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012. American high jumper Erik Kynard will finally get his gold medal from the 2012 London Olympics after the IOC on Friday Nov. 12, 2021 approved reallocating some results from those games because of doping cases. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

US high jumper to get 2012 Olympic gold from Russian doper

Nov. 12, 2021 03:56 PM EST

United States' Mikaela Shiffrin speeds down the course during an alpine ski, women's World Cup giant slalom, in Soelden, Austria, Saturday, Oct. 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati)

Shiffrin returns to rigorous training with her back on mend

By Pat Graham

Nov. 12, 2021 03:42 PM EST

FILE - A traveler waits near a tourist information booth at the Capital International Airport terminal 3 in Beijing on March 12, 2020. Making an Olympic team is hard enough. This winter, those who earn their spots on the U.S. squad might find it takes even more work to get to Beijing. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Travel trouble: US Olympians face uncertain road to Beijing

By Eddie Pells

Nov. 12, 2021 02:08 PM EST

An athlete competes in the women's monobob during an IBSF Sanctioned Race, a test event for the 2022 Winter Olympics, at the Yanqing National Sliding Center in Beijing, Monday, Oct. 25, 2021. Beijing Olympic officials say two foreign athletes have tested positive for COVID-19 in ongoing test events for February's Winter Games, Officials also expressed sympathy for a Polish luge competitor who fractured his leg at the Olympics sliding center this week in a crash that has been blamed on human error. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

2 athletes COVID-19 positive in Beijing Games warmup events

Nov. 12, 2021 12:58 PM EST

CEO of Germany's Olympic body quits amid further turmoil

Nov. 12, 2021 11:40 AM EST

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The chief executive of the German Olympic committee said Friday she will step down as the organization faces a backlash over an...

FILE - Exiled Tibetans use the Olympic Rings as a prop as they hold a street protest against the holding of 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing in Dharmsala, India on Feb. 3, 2021. Leading sponsors of the Beijing Winter Olympics should explain publicly why they remain silent about alleged human rights abuses in China with the Games opening there in just under three months, Human Rights Watch said Friday, Nov. 12, 2021 in a statement. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia, File)

Sponsors asked to defend support for Beijing Winter Olympics

By Stephen Wade

Nov. 12, 2021 03:27 AM EST

FILE - Vincent Zhou performs during the men's short program at the Skate America figure skating event Friday, Oct. 22, 2021, in Las Vegas. Zhou nailed just about everything at Skate America in October, the first of six Grand Prix series events, the main competitions leading up to February's Beijing Olympics. (AP Photo/David Becker, File)

Vincent Zhou's rise coming at the right time in Olympic year

By Barry Wilner

Nov. 11, 2021 11:28 AM EST

Belarus fines freestyle skiing world champ, campaigners say

Nov. 11, 2021 11:08 AM EST

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Freestyle skiing world champion Aliaksandra Ramanouskaya has been fined by a court in Belarus after being detained by authorities, the...

Luge officials: Olympic luge track crash was 'human error'

By Tim Reynolds

Nov. 11, 2021 10:08 AM EST

The International Luge Federation said Thursday that “human error" caused a Polish athlete to crash and suffer serious leg injuries in a training run this week...

FILE - Protesters raise a Tibetan flag and a banner in protest at the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics at the Acropolis hill in Athens, Greece, Sunday, Oct. 17, 2021. A global trade union body has joined a long list human-rights advocates in challenging the propriety of China holding the 2022 Winter Olympics, and has singled out the International Olympic Committee for acquiescing in the face of alleged genocide and crimes against humanity reportedly taking place China. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis, File)

Beijing Olympics get 'gold for repression' in labor report