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FILE - In this Sunday, Sept. 29, 2019 file photo, Christian Coleman of the United States, gold winner, bites on his medal during the medal ceremony for the men's 100m at the World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar. The fastest man in the world will miss the Tokyo Olympics after failing in an appeal to overturn his ban for missed doping tests, it was announced on Friday, April 16, 2021. American sprinter Christian Coleman did have his ban cut from two years to 18 months by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, file)
Christian Coleman to miss Olympics despite reduced ban

By Graham Dunbar Apr. 16, 2021 04:00 AM EDT
GENEVA (AP) — The man who had been expected to succeed Usain Bolt as Olympic

FILE - In this file photo dated Monday, Feb. 3, 2014, Sarah Lewis, Secretary General and Gian Franco Kasper, President of the FIS, the International Ski Federation, right, visit the finish area of the Aline ski course ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. Lewis has declared herself a candidate on Tuesday April 6, 2021, to become the first woman president of the International Ski Federation.(AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati, FILE)
Lewis running to lead the ski federation that fired her

By Graham Dunbar Apr. 06, 2021 05:32 AM EDT
GENEVA (AP) — Sarah Lewis is out to make a surprising comeback in sports

CAS to hear retrial of Sun Yang's doping case in May

By Graham Dunbar Apr. 01, 2021 05:19 PM EDT
GENEVA (AP) — The retrial of Olympic swimming champion Sun Yang will be held by

The logos for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics are seen at an exhibit at a visitors center at the Winter Olympic venues in Yanqing on the outskirts of Beijing, Friday, Feb. 5, 2021. A small core of international lawyers and activists are prodding leading Olympic sponsors to acknowledge China's widely reported human-rights abuses against Muslim Uyghurs, Tibetans and other minorities. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Rights groups and Olympic leaders in Beijing Games stalemate

By Graham Dunbar Mar. 12, 2021 09:49 PM EST
GENEVA (AP) — Activists protesting the 2022 Beijing Olympics hoped China’s

A man and a woman stand with the backdrop of the Olympic rings floating in the water in the Odaiba section in Tokyo, Wednesday, March 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
Russian folk song rejected as substitute Olympic anthem

By Graham Dunbar Mar. 12, 2021 06:06 PM EST
GENEVA (AP) — Russia's wish to use a patriotic Soviet-era folk song as a

A woman walks past the Olympic rings in Tokyo, Wednesday, March 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
IOC and China make vaccine deal for Tokyo, Beijing Olympians

By Graham Dunbar Mar. 11, 2021 12:19 PM EST
GENEVA (AP) — China strengthened its relationship with the International

FILE - In this Nov. 16, 2020, file photo, Thomas Bach, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President, speaks during the joint press conference between IOC and Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) in Tokyo, Japan. The International Olympic Committee is pushing back against reports that the postponed Tokyo Olympics will be canceled and will not open on July 23. The Tokyo Games were postponed 10 months ago at the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, and now their future appears threatened again.(Du Xiaoyi/Pool Photo via AP, File)
Thomas Bach re-elected as IOC president until 2025

By Graham Dunbar Mar. 10, 2021 10:20 AM EST
GENEVA (AP) — Thomas Bach was re-elected as president of the International

Equine herpes affects European preparation for Olympics

By Graham Dunbar Mar. 04, 2021 11:13 AM EST
GENEVA (AP) — A severe outbreak of equine herpes could disrupt preparations for

FILE - In this Saturday, May 4, 2019 file photo, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, left, shakes hands with Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) President John Coates at the AOC annual general meeting in Sydney, Australia. The Australian Olympic bid is on a fast-track to host the 2032 Olympics Wednesday Feb. 24, 2021, after the International Olympic Committee executive board gave Queensland “preferred bidder” status, 11 years ahead of the games.(AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)
How and why the IOC could find a 2032 Olympic host so soon

By Graham Dunbar Feb. 25, 2021 04:20 PM EST
GENEVA (AP) — After years of costly and time-consuming competitions to host the

FILE - In this Saturday, May 4, 2019 file photo, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, left, shakes hands with Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) President John Coates at the AOC annual general meeting in Sydney, Australia. The Australian Olympic bid is on a fast-track to host the 2032 Olympics Wednesday Feb. 24, 2021, after the International Olympic Committee executive board gave Queensland “preferred bidder” status, 11 years ahead of the games.(AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)
Australian bid put on IOC fast track to host 2032 Olympics

By Graham Dunbar Feb. 24, 2021 01:42 PM EST
GENEVA (AP) — Did the Australian city of Brisbane just get picked as the host

FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015 file photo, Kuwait's Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, president of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC), speaks during a meeting of the Association of National Olympic Committees, in Washington. Olympic powerbroker Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah will go on trial in Switzerland this month accused of forgery in a case linked to political rivalry in Kuwait’s royal family. Lawyers for the sheikh say he will attend the hearing listed by a criminal court in Geneva to run from Feb. 22-26, 2021. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, file)
Trial of Olympic sheikh on forgery charge pushed back

By Graham Dunbar Feb. 22, 2021 07:58 AM EST
GENEVA (AP) — The trial of an influential Olympic official was adjourned Monday

FILE - In this Nov. 28, 2019 file photo Olympic Rings and a model of Misha the Bear Cub, the mascot of the Moscow 1980 Olympic Games, left, are seen in the yard of Russian Olympic Committee building in Moscow, Russia. In the report detailing its decision to shorten Russia's ban from the Olympics, the highest court in sports blasted that country's leaders for engaging in “a cover up of the cover-up” in a desperate attempt to deny their culpability, but reduced the punishment nonetheless, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, file)
Russia's team name, flag agreed on for next 2 Olympics

By Graham Dunbar Feb. 19, 2021 09:46 AM EST
GENEVA (AP) — With Russia’s name banned from the next two Olympics, the country

FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018 file photo, Sheikh Ahmad al Fahad al Sabah, left, president of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC), and IOC President Thomas Bach talk prior to the opening of the ANOC general assembly in Tokyo. Olympic powerbroker Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah will go on trial in Switzerland this month accused of forgery in a case linked to political rivalry in Kuwait’s royal family. Lawyers for the sheikh say he will attend the hearing listed by a criminal court in Geneva to run from Feb. 22-26, 2021. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, fle)
Olympic powerbroker to go on trial in Geneva in forgery case

By Graham Dunbar Feb. 12, 2021 11:54 AM EST
GENEVA (AP) — Olympic powerbroker Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah will go on

Hidemasa Nakamura, right, games delivery officer for the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020), joins other representatives from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) at a Joint press briefing in Tokyo on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. Tokyo 2020, IOC and IPC announced Wednesday they jointly developed and published the first version of "The Playbooks," which contains advice from international and Japanese health experts for COVID-19 countermeasures as well as the guidelines and rules that each games stakeholder will need to observe in order to play their part in ensuing a safe and secure games. (Du Xiaoyi/Pool Photo via AP)
No cheering, no bars, less intimacy to ensure safe Olympics

By Graham Dunbar Feb. 03, 2021 10:38 AM EST
No cheering for athletes, no visiting bars and restaurants in Tokyo, less

A man walks by an electric monitor promoting the Tokyo 2020 Olympics planned to start in the summer of 2021, in Tokyo, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
IOC says speculating on Tokyo Olympics is damaging athletes

By Graham Dunbar Jan. 27, 2021 03:05 PM EST
GENEVA (AP) — IOC president Thomas Bach hit back at continuing speculation

FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018 file photo, Sheikh Ahmad al Fahad al Sabah, president of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) delivers a speech during the ANOC general assembly in Tokyo. A sports court says on Monday, Jan. 25, 2021 an election for an Asian woman soccer official to join the FIFA Council was improperly influenced by Olympic powerbroker Sheikh Ahmad of Kuwait. Sheikh Ahmad gave up his own FIFA Council seat in 2017 after being implicated in vote-buying by United States federal prosecutors. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, file)
Court rules on sheikh's improper influence in FIFA seat vote

By Graham Dunbar Jan. 25, 2021 11:34 AM EST
GENEVA (AP) — Olympic powerbroker Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah did try to

A man and a woman walk near the Olympic rings floating in the water in the Odaiba section in Tokyo Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. The postponed Tokyo Olympics are to open in just six months. Local organizers and the International Olympic Committee say they will go ahead on July 23. But it’s still unclear how this will happen with virus cases surging in Tokyo and elsewhere around the globe. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
Speculation over Tokyo Olympics: 2021, 2032 or not at all?

By Graham Dunbar Jan. 22, 2021 04:12 PM EST
GENEVA (AP) — Just about everybody, especially the organizers in Japan and

FILE - In this July 26, 2019, file photo, China's Sun Yang leaves the pool deck following the men's 4x200m freestyle relay heats at the World Swimming Championships in Gwangju, South Korea. The World Anti-Doping Agency says a Swiss court has overturned an eight-year doping ban against Chinese swimmer Sun Yang and ordered the case back to the Court of Arbitration for Sport for a second time but with a different chairman of the judges. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
Swiss supreme court details anti-China bias of Sun judge

By Graham Dunbar Jan. 15, 2021 06:46 AM EST
GENEVA (AP) — The Swiss supreme court explained Friday why it has ordered a

FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2017, file photo, the building of the Russian Olympic Committee is seen through a gate decorated with the Olympic rings, in Moscow, Russia. The ruling on whether Russia can keep its name and flag for the Olympics will be announced on Thursday Dec. 17, 2020. The Court of Arbitration for Sport said Wednesday that three of its arbitrators held a four-day hearing last month in the dispute between the World Anti-Doping Agency and its Russian affiliate, known as RUSADA. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
Russia can't use its name and flag at the next 2 Olympics

By Graham Dunbar Dec. 17, 2020 07:48 AM EST
GENEVA (AP) — Russia will not be able to use its name, flag and anthem at the

General Secretary of the Russian Boxing Federation, member of the Executive Committee of the International Boxing Association (AIBA) Umar Kremlev listens to a journalist's question during a news conference in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. Kremlev announced on Tuesday that he would be running for the presidency of the International Boxing Association (AIBA) in its upcoming elections. Kremlev made the announcement to journalists in Moscow and said he made the decision to run because of his "pain" in what he saw as the association's deterioration. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Russia's Kremlev defies Olympic concern to win boxing vote

By Graham Dunbar Dec. 12, 2020 10:40 AM EST
GENEVA (AP) — Umar Kremlev of Russia was elected president of the troubled