Legislation

FILE - Francine Niyonsaba of Burundi celebrates winning the woman's 3000 meters at the Qatar Diamond League athletics meet in Doha, Qatar, May 13, 2022. Niyonsaba withdrew from the world championships Monday, July 11, 2022, with a foot injury, just when she looked to be a good bet for her first major medal in the 5,000 meters after being forced to switch to long-distance events by track and field's contentious testosterone rules. (AP Photo/Hussein Sayed, File)

5000m contender Niyonsaba out of world champs with injury

By Gerald Imray Jul. 11, 2022 12:49 PM EDT

Ann Meyers Drysdale prepares her court-side broadcast prior to a Phoenix Mercury basketball game, Friday, June 3, 2022 in Phoenix. Ann Meyers Drysdale was the first woman to receive an athletic scholarship at UCLA. The Hall of Famer, longtime TV basketball analyst and mother of three shares how Title IX has shaped her life and career in a story for The Associated Press, and what needs to be done over the next 50 years for the law to continue to have a positive impact on young girls and women. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Title IX: Ann Meyers Drysdale shares how law shaped her life

By Ann Meyers Drysdale Jun. 20, 2022 02:43 AM EDT

Coach Eteri Tutberidze, left top, talks to Kamila Valieva, of the Russian Olympic Committee, during a training session at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Sunday, Feb. 13, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Olympic skater's entourage could face trouble under US law

By Eddie Pells Feb. 14, 2022 05:52 AM EST

Blessing Okagbare, of Nigeria races in a women's 200 meter heat at the World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar, Sept. 30, 2019. U.S. prosecutors charged a Texas man on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022 with providing performance-enhancing drugs to athletes competing in the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, including Okagbare. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, file)

Texts, pictures lead to 1st doping case under new US law

By Eddie Pells Jan. 13, 2022 02:44 AM EST

Man charged with giving Olympic athletes performance drugs

By Jim Mustian Jan. 12, 2022 12:03 PM EST

FILE - In this April 9, 2018, file photo, New Zealand's Laurel Hubbard lifts in the snatch of the women's 90kg weightlifting final at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, Australia. Hubbard, a transgender woman, is competing in weightlifting for New Zealand (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

First openly transgender Olympians are competing in Tokyo

By Anne M. Peterson Jul. 26, 2021 03:54 AM EDT

Athlete warning: Follow the rules at Tokyo Olympics, or else

By Stephen Wade Jun. 14, 2021 09:38 PM EDT

Yuri Igarashi, right, a co-chair of the Japan Alliance for LGBT Legislation speaks at a press conference in Tokyo Friday, June 4, 2021. Sexual minority groups and supporters, in their last ditch effort to get their long sought equality law before the Olympics, petitioned at offices of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party whose conservative members are resisting and stalling the legislation. (Kyodo News via AP)

Japan LGBTQ activists push for equality law before Olympics

By Mari Yamaguchi Jun. 04, 2021 09:06 AM EDT

Activists gather in front of parliament before they submit a petition in Tokyo Thursday, March 25, 2021. LGBTQ and other human rights activists submitted a petition with over 106,000 signatures to Japan's ruling party Thursday, calling for an LGBT equality law to be enacted before the Tokyo Games, saying Japan as host nation should live up to the Olympic charter banning gender and sexual discrimination. (Kyodo News via AP)

LGBT groups want equality law in Japan before Tokyo Olympics

Mari Yamaguchi Mar. 25, 2021 06:37 AM EDT

Canada appeals for Olympics equestrian spot in coca tea case

Dec. 23, 2020 10:54 AM EST
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — In the latest sports law case linked to cocaine consumed in South American tea, Canada’s equestrian team tried to regain its place...

Bill to criminalize doping schemes passes Senate

By Eddie Pells Nov. 16, 2020 06:28 PM EST
A bill that will strengthen American law enforcement's ability to deal with widespread international doping conspiracies passed the Senate unopposed Monday and...

Bill to reform USOPC, protect athletes approved by Congress

Oct. 01, 2020 03:56 PM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bill that would give Congress the power to dissolve the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee’s board of directors and would more than...

Italy's Filippo Ganna celebrates on the podium after winning the men's Individual Time Trial event, at the road cycling World Championships, in Imola, Italy, Friday, Sept. 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

IOC president warns Italy over government interference

By Andrew Dampf Sep. 28, 2020 10:01 AM 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 02:49 PM EDT

FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2020, file photo, United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee CEO Sarah Hirshland listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a briefing with the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Los Angeles 2028 organizers in Beverly Hills, Calif. New financial reports from the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee include unprecedented detail about money that goes to the sports organizations it oversees. It's a feature the federation is hoping will add layers of information to help people decipher its often opaque accounting picture. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Borders' report card: USOPC 'hugely on track' on reforms

By Eddie Pells Aug. 18, 2020 11:00 AM EDT

A statue is seen outside Amsterdam's Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam, Friday, Aug. 14, 2020. A spokeswoman for Amsterdam's Olympic Stadium says a bronze statute of an athlete saluting with an outstretched arm reminiscent of the gesture made infamous at rallies in Nazi Germany is to be removed from outside the stadium because the salute has links to fascism. The 3-meter (10-foot) tall bronze statue that was placed outside the stadium for the 1928 Summer Games that were staged in the Dutch capital. (AP Photo/Esther Corder)

Saluting statue to be removed from Amsterdam Olympic Stadium

Aug. 14, 2020 11:06 AM EDT

Senate passes bill to drastically overhaul USOPC

Aug. 04, 2020 05:21 PM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bill that would give Congress the power to dissolve the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee's board of directors and would more than...