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Russia offers to host new sports event with China, India

Mar. 15, 2023 08:10 AM EDT
NEW DELHI (AP) — Russia offered Wednesday to host a new multi-sports event for countries such as China and India which are members of a regional grouping known as...

FILE - Russian Kamila Valieva competes in the women's free skate program during the figure skating competition at the 2022 Russian Figure Skating Grand Prix, the Golden Skate of Moscow, at Megasport Arena in Moscow, Russia, on Oct. 23, 2022. The World Anti-Doping Agency has appealed Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva's doping case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport and said Tuesday, Feb 21, 2023, it is seeking a four-year ban. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Russian agency also appeals in Valieva Olympic doping case

Feb. 24, 2023 07:55 AM EST

FILE - Russian Kamila Valieva competes in the women's free skate program during the figure skating competition at the 2022 Russian Figure Skating Grand Prix, the Golden Skate of Moscow, at Megasport Arena in Moscow, Russia, on Oct. 23, 2022. The World Anti-Doping Agency has appealed Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva's doping case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport and said Tuesday, Feb 21, 2023, it is seeking a four-year ban. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Russian skater Valieva's doping case to go to sports court

Feb. 21, 2023 09:56 AM EST

United States' Mikaela Shiffrin speeds down the course during an alpine ski, women's World Championships super G, in Meribel, France, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati)
Shiffrin's silver at ski worlds inspired by LeBron's record

By Andrew Dampf Feb. 08, 2023 11:20 AM EST

United States' Mikaela Shiffrin fails to complete the slalom portion of an alpine ski, women's World Championship combined race, in Meribel, France, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati)
Shiffrin's Beijing lesson helps after another big-race DNF

By Andrew Dampf Feb. 06, 2023 08:43 AM EST

FILE - Italy's Sofia Goggia speeds down the course during an alpine ski, women's World Cup Super-G race, in St. Moritz, Switzerland, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2022. A quick glance at the top female skiers to watch for at the world championships in Courchevel and Meribel, France, starting Feb. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Giovanni Pizzato, File)
Shiffrin, Goggia and Gut-Behrami are the favorites at worlds

By Andrew Dampf Feb. 03, 2023 07:44 AM EST

FILE - Kamila Valieva, of the Russian Olympic Committee, reacts after the women's free skate program during the figure skating competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics, on Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. he World Anti-Doping Agency says a Russian tribunal has found figure skater Kamila Valieva bore “no fault or negligence” in a doping case that rocked last year’s Winter Olympics. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)
US Figure Skating blasts delay in awarding of Beijing medals

By Dave Skretta Feb. 02, 2023 01:06 PM EST

FILE - United States' Mikaela Shiffrin speeds down the course on her way to win an alpine ski, women's World Cup giant slalom, her 84th World Cup race, in Kronplatz, Italy, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023. Shiffrin isn't putting the same pressure on herself for the upcoming world championships, starting on on Feb. 6, 2023 in Courchevel and Meribel, France, that she did for last year's Beijing Olympics. The event is Shiffrin's first major championship since American skier didn't win a medal and didn't finish three of her five races at the Olympics. (AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati, File)
Shiffrin shifts from record chase to medal races at worlds

By Andrew Dampf Feb. 01, 2023 07:14 AM EST

Leading Australian Olympic official Phil Coles dies aged 91

Jan. 28, 2023 10:00 PM EST
SYDNEY (AP) — Phil Coles, who played key roles in getting an Australian team to the 1980 Moscow Olympics despite a U.S.-led boycott and later helped secure the 2000...

FILE - Alex Hall of the United States, checks the score following his run in the slopestyle finals, Friday, Dec. 17, 2021, during the Dew Tour freestyle skiing event at Copper Mountain, Colo. There's a legion of freestyle skiers and snowboarders at the action park who refuse to subscribe to the “spin to win” theory. It's the idea that maxing out flips and twists is the only way for them to score big with the judges.(AP Photo/Hugh Carey, File)
Winter X daredevils ride fine line between height, happiness

By Pat Graham And Eddie Pells Jan. 28, 2023 11:07 AM EST

A skier skis down a thin slope of snow through the village of Adelboden, Switzerland, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. Mild weather has left many regions of Europe that would normally be blanketed in snow at this time of year bare, and winter sports resorts are fearing for the future. (AP Photo/Gabriele Facciotti)
Braathen beats boyhood buddy McGrath to win World Cup slalom

Jan. 08, 2023 08:38 AM EST

United States' Mikaela Shiffrin celebrates on the podium after winning an alpine ski, women's World Cup giant slalom, in Semmering, Austria, Wednesday, Dec.28, 2022. (AP Photo/Piermarco Tacca)
Shiffrin focusing on the process as she nears Vonn's record

By Andrew Dampf Jan. 06, 2023 05:58 AM EST

Germany's Stephan Leyhe soars through the air during the third stage of the 70th Four Hills ski jumping tournament in Bischofshofen, Austria, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
AP Photos: In 2022, sports brought every imaginable emotion

By The Associated Press Dec. 20, 2022 09:48 AM EST

FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2020, file photo, the Olympic rings are reinstalled after it was taken down for maintenance ahead of the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics in the Odaiba section in Tokyo. The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee is encouraging individual sports to consider “category qualifiers” — classified in some sports as “open” categories — to ensure transgender athletes will have events to participate in once they reach puberty. The USOPC finalized its two-page “position paper” at its board meeting earlier this month and released it Monday, Dec. 19, 2022, addressing a proposed path forward for transgender participation in sports. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
Sapporo mayor says Tokyo bid-rigging hurt its Olympic bid

By Stephen Wade Dec. 20, 2022 07:53 AM EST

Italy's Sofia Goggia reacts after completing an alpine ski, women's World Cup downhill race, in St. Moritz, Switzerland, Friday, Dec.16, 2022. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati)
Curtoni, Goggia finish 1-2 in downhill but Goggia injured

Dec. 16, 2022 06:02 AM EST

FILE - Bronze medal winner Germany's Daniela Maier celebrates during the venue award ceremony for the women's cross at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. A second bronze medal will be awarded to end a dispute over third place in women’s skicross at the Beijing Olympics. Under a settlement reached 10 months after the race — and following a second change in the result — both Fanny Smith of Switzerland and Daniela Maier of Germany will get a bronze medal. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)
Smith, Maier both get bronze 10 months after Beijing Games

Dec. 13, 2022 03:34 PM EST

Switzerland's Corinne Suter celebrates her victory on the podium following the women's World Cup super-G ski race in Lake Louise, Alberta, on Sunday Dec. 4, 2022. (/Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)
Suter claims World Cup super-G, ends Goggia's winning streak

Dec. 04, 2022 05:37 PM EST

Marco Odermatt, of Switzerland, skis on the way to winning the men's World Cup super-G race at Lake Louise, Alberta, Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP)
Fast & smooth Odermatt proves to be ski racer to catch again

By Pat Graham Dec. 01, 2022 05:39 PM EST

Russian Kamila Valieva, foreground, prepares to compete in the women's free skate program during the figure skating competition at the 2022 Russian Figure Skating Grand Prix, the Golden Skate of Moscow, as her coach Eteri Tutberidze, right, looks at her at Megasport Arena in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022. With its teams suspended from international competitions such as the Grand Prix series, Russia is holding its own series of figure skating events in various cities, also under the Grand Prix name. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Russian skater Valieva could miss 2026 Olympics over doping

Nov. 14, 2022 06:49 AM EST

WADA forces hearing in Russian skater Valieva's doping case

Nov. 08, 2022 09:51 AM EST
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The World Anti-Doping Agency said Tuesday it sent the Beijing Olympics case of teenage figure skater Kamila Valieva to sport’s highest...