CHRIS LEHOURITES
FILE - IAAF President Sebastian Coe attends a press conference ahead of the Doha IAAF Diamond League in Doha, Qatar, May 2, 2019. Olympic great Sebastian Coe said Monday March 14, 2022, sports federations must remain firm to keep Russian and Belarusian athletes out of competitions following the invasion of Ukraine. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)
Sebastian Coe says sports must fight to keep Russia banned

By Chris Lehourites Mar. 14, 2022 12:10 PM EDT
LONDON (AP) — Sports federations have set precedents by banning Russian and

FILE - In this Friday, July 31, 2015 file photo, Honorary President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Jacques Rogge, left, sits along with IOC President Thomas Bach, at the 128th IOC session in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The International Olympic Committee on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021 says Jacques Rogge who led the organization as president for 12 years, has died. He was 79. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian, file)
Jacques Rogge, IOC president for 12 years, dies at 79

By Chris Lehourites Aug. 29, 2021 12:29 PM EDT
LONDON (AP) — Jacques Rogge approached the job of running the Olympics the same

FILE - In this Tuesday, July 20, 2021, file photo, a woman wearing a protective mask walks in front of a Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics display at the Tokyo Metropolitan government in Tokyo. The Tokyo Olympics have already broken new ground because of the 12-month delay caused by the coronavirus pandemic, pushing it into an odd-numbered year for the first time. But with no fans permitted in Japan, foreign or local, it has the undesirable distinction of being the first Games to be held with no spectators. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)
An Olympics like no other, Tokyo perseveres to host Games

By Chris Lehourites Jul. 20, 2021 01:09 PM EDT
TOKYO (AP) — It's an Olympics like no other — and the Tokyo Games are surely

FILE - In this Aug. 22, 2004, file photo, Japan's Mizuki Noguchi takes the final lap inside the Panathinaiko Stadium as she wins the gold medal in the women's marathon in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
Olympics return to antiquity at the 2004 Athens Games

By Chris Lehourites Aug. 15, 2020 09:37 PM EDT
When the Olympics returned to Athens in 2004, they also returned to antiquity.

FILE - This July 15, 1924 file photo shows the opening of the 1924 Olympics at Colombes Stadium, Paris, as competing athletes lined up on the field and the flags of all the competing nations formed a semi-circle around the veteran French athlete, G. Andre, taking the Olympic oath. (AP Photo/Filr)
Paris Olympics in 1924 set stage for Hollywood endings

By Chris Lehourites Jul. 28, 2020 01:18 PM EDT
There was a soon-to-be Hollywood star in the pool, and a soon-to-be Hollywood

FILE - This 1900 file photo shows the eastern part of a busy boulevard in Paris, France in the year 1900. No opening ceremony. No closing ceremony. And many of the athletes at the 1900 Paris Games had no idea they even competed at the Olympics. But the second edition of the Olympics had female athletes competing for the first time. (AP Photo/File)
Ewry begins Olympic career with 3 titles in 1 day in Paris

By Chris Lehourites Jul. 23, 2020 03:32 PM EDT
Largely forgotten despite his incredible tally of gold medals, Ray Ewry began

FILE - This 1900 file photo shows the eastern part of a busy boulevard in Paris, France in the year 1900. No opening ceremony. No closing ceremony. And many of the athletes at the 1900 Paris Games had no idea they even competed at the Olympics. But the second edition of the Olympics had female athletes competing for the first time. (AP Photo/File)
Paris hosts 1900 Olympics, even though many didn't know it

By Chris Lehourites Jul. 23, 2020 03:09 PM EDT
EDITORS — With the Tokyo Olympics postponed for a year because of the

FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 18, 2019, file photo, Sebastian Coe leaves the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland. The date of the next world track championships is in limbo until the International Olympic Committee decides on a new schedule for the postponed Tokyo Games. Coe, the Olympic great who is now president of World Athletics, said Friday, March 27, 2020, there are plenty of options for rescheduling next year's world championships in Eugene, Oregon, but at the moment they all depend on the IOC. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP, File)
Track worlds in limbo until new Olympic dates are set

By Chris Lehourites Mar. 27, 2020 04:03 PM EDT
LONDON (AP) — The date of the next world track championships is in limbo until