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Jolanda Neff of Switzerland, right, embraces teammates Sina Frei (8) who won silver, and Linda Indergand, who won bronze, for a sweep of the podium for Switzerland, at the finish line the women's cross-country mountain bike competition at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, July 27, 2021, in Izu, Japan. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
Female medalists lift Swiss to best Summer Games since 1952

By Graham Dunbar 4 hrs ago
TOKYO (AP) — While it was National Day back home in Switzerland on Sunday, the

Japanese Coast Guard boats dock in Tokyo Bay outside of the Olympic athletes' village ahead of the 2020 Summer Olympics, Monday, July 19, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Outdoor drinking party in athletes village is investigated

By Graham Dunbar 5 hrs ago
TOKYO (AP) — An outdoor drinking party at the athletes village that broke rules

Norway's Karsten Warholm celebrates after running 46.70 seconds to set a new men's 400m hurdles world record at the Diamond League meeting in Oslo, Norway Thursday July 1, 2021. (Fredrik Hagen, NTB via AP)
Coe sees track and field healthy ahead of Olympic program

By Graham Dunbar Jul. 27, 2021 12:16 PM EDT
TOKYO (AP) — With no Usain Bolt on the track and no fans in the stadium,

The refugee team carry the Olympic flag during the opening ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 23, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (Dylan Martinez/Pool Photo via AP)
IOC to adapt refugee athletes program to counter criticism

By Graham Dunbar Jul. 27, 2021 05:38 AM EDT
TOKYO (AP) — Refugee athletes need to be given more chances to compete and earn

FILE - In this June 19, 2021, photo, Sha'Carri Richardson celebrates after winning the first heat of the semis finals in women's 100-meter run at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials in Eugene, Ore. From doping, to demonstrations to dirty officials, the Olympics have never lacked their share of off-the-field scandals and controversies that keep the Games in the headlines long after the torch goes out. Only weeks before the start of the Olympics, the ban of American sprinter Richardson for a positive marijuana test fueled a debate about whether that drug — not considered a performance enhancer and now legal in some parts of the globe — should be forbidden anymore. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File)
Sebastian Coe backs reviewing marijuana rules in doping

By Graham Dunbar Jul. 27, 2021 03:41 AM EDT
TOKYO (AP) — Sebastian Coe wants to ensure what happened this month to American

Kim Bui, of Germany, performs on the vault during the women's artistic gymnastic qualifications at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, July 25, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Olympic broadcasters curb sexual images of female athletes

By Graham Dunbar Jul. 26, 2021 05:18 AM EDT
TOKYO (AP) — At an Olympics aiming to set the highest level of television

Stanislav Pozdnyakov, president of the Russian Olympic Committee, responds to a Russian reporter's question as he arrives for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games at Haneda international airport in Tokyo on Sunday, July 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)
Russians suspected of doping stopped from going to Olympics

By Graham Dunbar Jul. 23, 2021 04:08 AM EDT
TOKYO (AP) — Some Russian athletes were denied places on the country’s Olympic

Australia players pose for a group photo with an indigenous flag prior to women's soccer match against New Zealand at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, July 21, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)
IOC to include athletes kneeling in highlights, social media

By Graham Dunbar Jul. 22, 2021 02:29 AM EDT
TOKYO (AP) — After images of Olympic soccer players taking a knee were excluded

President of the International Olympic Committee Thomas Bach announces Brisbane as the 2032 Summer Olympics host city during the 138th IOC Session at Hotel Okura in Tokyo, Wednesday, July 21, 2021. (Toru Hanai/Pool Photo via AP)
Brisbane picked to host 2032 Olympics without a rival bid

By Graham Dunbar Jul. 21, 2021 04:34 AM EDT
TOKYO (AP) — Brisbane was picked Wednesday to host the 2032 Olympics, the

FILE - In this Monday, May 24, 2021 file photo, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), speaks at the WHO headquarters, in Geneva, Switzerland. The head of the World Health Organization said Thursday, July 15 that he is asking China to be more transparent as scientists search for the origins of the coronavirus and acknowledged it was premature to rule out that the pandemic may have been linked to a laboratory leak. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP, File)
WHO leader says virus risk inevitable at Tokyo Olympics

By Graham Dunbar Jul. 20, 2021 10:37 PM EDT
TOKYO (AP) — The Tokyo Olympics should not be judged by the tally of COVID-19

Megan Rapinoe, second right, and her teammates warm up at a training session of United States women's soccer team at Prince Takamado Memorial JFA YUME Field Saturday, July 17, 2021, in Chiba, near Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
Long-banned athlete protest acts expected at Tokyo Olympics

By Graham Dunbar Jul. 20, 2021 11:02 AM EDT
TOKYO (AP) — Athlete activism is making a comeback at these Olympic Games.

Protesters against the Tokyo Olympics gather outside Akasaka Palace, Japanese state guest house where the welcome party for IOC President Thomas Bach and its officials are held in Tokyo, Japan, Sunday, July 18, 2021. The banner, yellow, reads "IOC is a looter ! Use Olympic fees for social welfare". (Koji Harada/Kyodo News via AP)
Japanese PM Suga says world should see safe Olympics staged

By Graham Dunbar Jul. 19, 2021 11:19 PM EDT
TOKYO (AP) — The world needs to see that Japan can stage a safe Olympics, the

The Olympic athletes from the United States arrive at Narita International Airport in Narita, east of Tokyo, on July 1, 2021. Tens of thousands of visiting athletes, officials and media are descending on Japan for a Summer Olympics unlike any other. There will be no foreign fans, no local fans in Tokyo-area venues. A surge of virus cases has led to yet another state of emergency. (Kyodo News via AP)
Olympic athletes test positive in Tokyo days before Games

By Graham Dunbar Jul. 19, 2021 05:47 AM EDT
TOKYO (AP) — A third athlete at the Olympic Village in Tokyo has tested

FILE - In this Oct. 16, 1968, file photo, extending gloved hands skyward in protest, U.S. athletes Tommie Smith, center, and John Carlos stare downward during the national anthem after Smith received the gold and Carlos the bronze in the men's 200 meters at the Summer Olympics in Mexico City. Australian silver medalist Peter Norman is at left. In a major shift in policy, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee committed to not sanction athletes who use their platform for social demonstrations. The USOPC stance sets up the possibility for conflict and confusion at the Tokyo Games, where the IOC will be in charge. (AP Photo/File)
IOC gives athletes more scope for protest at Tokyo Olympics

By Graham Dunbar Jul. 02, 2021 12:02 PM EDT
GENEVA (AP) — The IOC finally relented on Friday to let Olympic athletes make

FILE - In this file photo dated Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012, Silver medalist Roxana Cocos of Romania kisses her medal during a medals ceremony after the women's 69-kg, weightlifting competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics, in London. A culture of alleged corruption among international weightlifting officials has been detailed in a 50-page investigative report released Thursday June 24, 2021, of covered-up doping cases, with Cocos stripped of her medal years later when re-tests revealed her steroid use. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, FILE)
Investigation alleges doping corruption in weightlifting

By Graham Dunbar Jun. 24, 2021 06:15 AM EDT
GENEVA (AP) — A culture of alleged corruption among international weightlifting

FILE - In this Thursday, July 25, 2019 file photo, China's Sun Yang swims during a warm up session at the World Swimming Championships in Gwangju, South Korea. Chinese swimmer star Sun Yang has been banned for more than four years for breaking anti-doping rules. The verdict by the Court of Arbitration for Sport ends Sun’s hopes of defending his Olympic title in the 200 meters freestyle in Tokyo next month. His ban expires in May 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
Chinese swimmer Sun Yang banned again, misses Tokyo Olympics

By Graham Dunbar Jun. 22, 2021 10:58 AM EDT
GENEVA (AP) — China's most famous swimmer got a second chance to avoid a doping

FILE - In this Thursday, July 28, 2016 file photo, World hurdles 110m champion Sergey Shubenkov competes during the Russian Stars 2016 track and field competitions in Moscow, Russia. Shubenkov has been cleared in a doping case described as “genuinely exceptional” that was prosecuted in secret ahead of the Tokyo Olympics. Shubenkov’s positive test for a diuretic was blamed on "unintentional ingestion of residue from medication being used to treat a family member.” Track and field’s Athletics Integrity Unit announced the verdict of an independent tribunal. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
Russian hurdler cleared of doping caused by baby son's pills

By Graham Dunbar Jun. 22, 2021 06:31 AM EDT
GENEVA (AP) — Russian former world champion hurdler Sergei Shubenkov was

FILE - In this file photo dated Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008, Nigeria's head coach Samson Siasia directs his players during a men's semifinal soccer match against Belgium at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Shanghai. The soccer coach who led Nigeria to win two Olympic medals had his life ban by FIFA in a match-fixing case cut to five years. The Court of Arbitration for Sport's judges say a life ban for Samson Siasia was “disproportionate” for a passive offense which didn't earn him any money. FIFA had expelled Siasia in 2019 for his past links to Singaporean match-fixer Wilson Perumal.(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
Soccer coach's life ban cut to 5 years in fixing case

By Graham Dunbar Jun. 21, 2021 09:28 AM EDT
GENEVA (AP) — The coach who led Nigeria to two Olympic medals in men’s soccer

Intrernational Olympic Committee (IOC vice president John Coates speaks on a screen while Tokyo 2020 Olympics organizing committee president Seiko Hashimoto listens at a meeting of the IOC Coordination Commission for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in Tokyo on Wednesday, May 19, 2021. IOC president Thomas Bach, Hashimoto, Japanese Olympic Minister Tamayo Marukawa and Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike attended a three-day meeting. (Yoshikazu Tsuno/Pool Photo via AP)
Brisbane set to be named 2032 Olympics host next month

By Graham Dunbar Jun. 10, 2021 11:24 AM EDT
GENEVA (AP) — Brisbane has long seemed to be in a one-horse race to host the

People walk near the Olympic Rings Wednesday, June 2, 2021, in Tokyo. Roads are being closed off around Tokyo Olympic venues including the new $1.4 billion National Stadium where the opening ceremony is set for July 23. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
Refugee team of 29 athletes picked for Tokyo Olympics

By Graham Dunbar Jun. 08, 2021 07:58 AM EDT
GENEVA (AP) — The refugee team for the Tokyo Olympics will have 29 athletes