Soviet Union Olympic Team
FILE - United States' Dwight Jones tries to grab the ball as a Russian player goes for a score during the men's basketball final at the Olympic Games in Munich on Sept. 10, 1972. Russia won 51-50 to win the gold medal. Members of the 1972 team have talked about finally retrieving those silver medals they vowed to never accept and left behind in Germany. No, they still don't want them for themselves. They believe the medals belong in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, but the latest attempt to get them from the International Olympic Committee has been thwarted. (AP Photo, File)
Efforts to put '72 Olympic medals in hoop Hall thwarted

By Brian Mahoney Sep. 09, 2022 01:31 AM EDT

Tampa Bay Lightning right wing Nikita Kucherov (86) celebrates with the bench after scoring against the Toronto Maple Leafs during the third period in Game 6 of an NHL hockey first-round playoff series Thursday, May 12, 2022, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
Russians star in NHL playoffs as nation wages war in Ukraine

By Stephen Whyno May. 30, 2022 02:23 AM EDT

Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in the launch of a new ferry via a conference call at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 4, 2022. (Andrei Gorshkov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
Column: Russian sports ban unlikely to stop Putin's war

By Paul Newberry Mar. 04, 2022 05:03 PM EST

FILE - A man walking past the Russian Olympic Committee building casts a shadow on a window in Moscow, Russia on Nov. 18, 2015. The invasion of Ukraine could further undermine Russia's status as an elite sports dynasty, which already has been weakened by deception and doping scandals but often punished only by a tepid pushback from international sports bodies. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)
Ukraine invasion puts Russia's elite sports status at risk

By Eddie Pells Feb. 27, 2022 01:03 AM EST

FILE - A USA basketball fan holds up the Stars & Stripes as the American Olympic team play Angola, July 26, 1992, Barcelona, Spain. The "Dream Team" with the first U.S. Olympic men's basketball team to field active NBA players rolls past Croatia 117-85 for the gold medal at the 1992 Barcelona Games. The Americans demolish the field. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke, File)
AP Was There: Dream Team rolls in Barcelona to Olympic gold

By The Associated Press Feb. 23, 2022 01:39 PM EST

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Elana Meyers Taylor and Sylvia Hoffman, of the United States, finish the women's bobsleigh heat 2 at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 18, 2022, in the Yanqing district of Beijing. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
WHAT TO WATCH: Men's hockey final highlights last few medals

By Noah Trister Feb. 18, 2022 01:39 PM EST

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Gold medalist Eileen Gu of China celebrates during the medal ceremony for the women's freestyle skiing big air at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
EXPLAINER: Competing for 'another' country is nothing new

By Mallika Sen Feb. 14, 2022 06:31 AM EST

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FILE- Slovakia's Petra Vlhova speeds down the course during an alpine ski, women's World Cup downhill race, in Zauchensee, Austria, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Giovanni Maria Pizzato, File)
Shiffrin-Vlhova, Chen-Hanyu among marquee Olympic matchups

By Noah Trister Feb. 06, 2022 08:05 AM EST

France's Jean Patry celebrates a point during a men's volleyball semifinal match against Argentina, at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
Olympics Latest: China women win table tennis again

Aug. 04, 2021 08:23 PM EDT

Russian Olympic Committee's artistic gymnastics women's team Liliia Akhaimova, left, and Angelina Melnikova celebrate after winning the gold medal for the artistic women's team at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, July 27, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
Russian team topples American powerhouse with Biles out

By Claire Galofaro Jul. 27, 2021 12:07 PM EDT

Gold medalist Kuo Hsing-Chun of Taiwan, center, is flanked by silver medalist Polina Guryeva of Turkmekistan, left and bronze medalist Mikiko Andoh of Japan on the podium after the women's 59kg weightlifting event, at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, July 27, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
Weightlifter Guryeva wins Turkmenistan's 1st Olympic medal

By James Ellingworth Jul. 27, 2021 08:27 AM EDT

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

FILE - In this Aug. 9, 2016, file photo, Brazil's Bruno Rezende dives for the ball during a men's preliminary volleyball match against Canada at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Both defending champions in volleyball are in good position to contend for a repeat with Rezende back for a fourth Olympics for the Brazilian men after winning silver in 2008 and ‘12 and gold at home in Rio five years ago. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)
Early losses haven't been detrimental in Olympic volleyball

By Josh Dubow Jul. 03, 2021 09:27 AM EDT

FILE - In this Friday, May 8, 2015 file photo, Soviet war veteran David Dushman, 92, center, speaks to people holding Ukrainian flags as he attends a wreath laying ceremony at the Russian War Memorial in the Tiergarten district of Berlin, Germany. Dushman, the last surviving Allied soldier involved in the liberation of Auschwitz, has died. The Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria said Sunday, June 6, 2021 that Dushman had died a day earlier in a Munich hospital at the age of 98. As young Red Army soldier, Dushman flattened the forbidding fence around the notorious Nazi death camp with his tank on Jan. 27, 1945. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)
Last of Soviet soldiers who liberated Auschwitz dies at 98

Jun. 06, 2021 05:11 PM EDT

FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2020, file photo, United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee CEO Sarah Hirshland listens during a briefing with the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Los Angeles 2028 organizers in Beverly Hills, Calif. A boycott of next year's Beijing Olympics will not solve any geopolitical issues with China and will only serve to place athletes training for the games under a “cloud of uncertainty,” according to a letter, Hirshland, the head of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee, wrote to Congress on Thursday, May 13, 2021. Her letter specifically addressed those who believe a boycott of the Winter Games next February would serve as an effective diplomatic tool to protest China's alleged abuses toward Uyghurs, Tibetans and Hong Kong residents. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
USOPC to Congress: Beijing Olympic boycott not the solution

By Eddie Pells May. 13, 2021 03:01 PM EDT

FILE - In this Sept. 2, 1960 file photo, Tamara Press of Russia heaves the shot during the Women's shot put qualifying round at the Summer Olympic Games in Rome, Italy. Three-time Olympic champion Tamara Press has died at the age of 83. The Russian track federation says Press died in the hospital on April 26, 2021 without giving a cause of death. Press competed for the Soviet Union and won gold in the shot put and silver in the discus at the 1960 Rome Olympics. She won gold in both events four years later at the 1964 Tokyo Games. (AP Photo, file)
Olympic track and field champion Tamara Press dies at 83

May. 06, 2021 12:28 PM EDT

Death of 'Miracle on Ice' standout Pavelich ruled suicide

Apr. 05, 2021 02:44 PM EDT
ANOKA, Minn. (AP) — Last month's death of "Miracle on Ice” Olympic hockey standout Mark Pavelich was ruled a suicide, a Minnesota medical examiner said Monday....