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FILE - Track and field runner Allyson Felix arrives at the ESPY Awards, July 20, 2022, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. American sprint great Allyson Felix and a refugee cyclist originally from Afghanistan have joined the International Olympic Committee’s athletes' commission, it was announced Wednesday, July 27, 2022. Felix is a seven-time Olympic champion. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, file)
US sprint great Allyson Felix joins IOC athletes' commission

Jul. 27, 2022 10:39 AM EDT

International Olympic Committee's President Thomas Bach, left, talks to French President Emmanuel Macron as he leaves the Elysee Palace in Paris, Monday, July 25, 2022. Tomorrow is marking two years until the Olympics are due to begin in the French capital. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly, Pool)
Paris 2024 gets Macron's support for huge opening ceremony

By John Leicester Jul. 25, 2022 01:28 PM EDT

FILE - International Olympic Committee's President Thomas Bach and Seiko Hashimoto, president of the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games make the sign of a heart with their hands during the closing ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. The Tokyo Olympics survived the COVID-19 postponement, soaring expenses and some public opposition. A year later, the costs and benefits are as difficult to untangle as the Games were to pull off. (Dan Mullen/Pool Photo via AP)
Tokyo Olympic aftermath still being untangled a year later

By Stephen Wade Jul. 21, 2022 01:16 AM EDT

Los Angeles Olympics to begin July 14, 2028

Jul. 18, 2022 07:12 PM EDT
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The 2028 Los Angeles Olympics kicked off a six-year countdown on Monday with the announcement of the dates for the Games’ return to the city. ...

Yaroslava Mahuchikh, of Ukraine, competes during qualifying for the women's high jump at the World Athletics Championships on Saturday, July 16, 2022, in Eugene, Ore. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Ukraine on her mind as high jumper goes for gold at worlds

By Eddie Pells Jul. 16, 2022 01:32 PM EDT

German beach handball player Michelle Schaffer shoots against American defender Isabelle Gosar at The World Games in Birmingham, Ala., on Wednesday, July 13, 2022. The 11-day, Olympic-style competition is being held in the United States for only the second time, at venues throughout Birmingham, Ala. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)
Column: Welcome to the Island of Misfit Sports

By Paul Newberry Jul. 15, 2022 01:30 PM EDT

FILE - This is an undated photo of Jim Thorpe in a baseball uniform. Jim Thorpe has been reinstated as the sole winner of the 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon — nearly 110 years after being stripped of those gold medals for violations of strict amateurism rules of the time. The International Olympic Committee confirmed that an announcement was planned later Friday, July 15, 2022. (AP Photo, File)
Jim Thorpe reinstated as sole winner for 1912 Olympic golds

Jul. 15, 2022 06:54 AM EDT

FILE - Then Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appears as the Nintendo game character Super Mario during the closing ceremony at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Aug. 21, 2016. Despite his fame as a Japan's longest serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe might have had enjoyed his biggest moment at the closing ceremony of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro. (Yu Nakajima/Kyodo News via AP, File)
Abe impersonated 'Super Mario' to promote Tokyo Olympics

By Stephen Wade Jul. 09, 2022 01:07 AM EDT

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, speaks during a press conference with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, July 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
Zelenskyy praises IOC for supporting bans on Russian sport

Jul. 04, 2022 08:49 AM EDT

Investigator warns boxing to change to save Olympic status

Jun. 20, 2022 04:17 PM EDT
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Fighting to keep their sport in the Olympics, boxing officials were warned on Monday to change its historical culture of breaking the...

FILE - Billy Demong, a member of USA Nordic's board of directors, speaks during the cross country stage of the nordic combined 10 kilometers for placement on the U.S. Olympic team, at the Mount Van Hoevenberg Olympic Sports Complex on Dec. 24, 2021, in Lake Placid, N.Y. Nordic combined, which uniquely tests skiers on jaw-dropping jumps and heart-pounding trails, has been a part of the Winter Olympics since 1924. It is also the only Olympic sport without women.(AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)
Winter Olympics may not include Nordic combined for 1st time

By Larry Lage Jun. 15, 2022 02:37 PM EDT

FILE- In this Aug. 12, 2017 file photo, Russia's Maria Lasitskene celebrates without a flag after winning the gold medal in the women's high jump final during the World Athletics Championships in London. Lasitskene, likely to be banned from defending her three straight world titles next month, lashed out at the leaders of the IOC and World Athletics, and expressed sympathy for her Ukrainian competitors in a heartfelt open letter distributed Thursday, June 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)
Russian champion bashes Bach, shows sympathy for Ukrainians

By Eddie Pells Jun. 09, 2022 04:19 PM EDT

11 candidates in weightlifting election amid Olympic crisis

May. 25, 2022 11:26 AM EDT
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Two American women are among a total of 11 candidates running for president of weightlifting’s troubled governing body, looking to lead...

Antti Pihlakoski, evaluation panel chairman of the World Athletics (WA), center left, and Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike, surrounded by other WA members, pose for a photo before their talk in Tokyo, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. Council member Nawal El Moutawakel, back, from left, Vice President Ximena Restrepo and Director of Competitions & Events Jakob Larsen join the photo session. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)
Tokyo a candidate for track and field world championships

By Stephen Wade May. 25, 2022 12:44 AM EDT

IOC reveals more talks with Peng Shuai, plans Europe visit

May. 20, 2022 12:02 PM EDT
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai has continued to speak with Olympic officials since the Beijing Winter Games and wants to visit Europe...

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Russian athletes during an awarding ceremony for the Russian Olympic Committee's medalists of the XXIV Olympic Winter Games in Beijing and members of the Russian Paralympic team in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, April 26, 2022. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
Bach says Russia ban is to protect athletes, not punish them

By Graham Dunbar May. 20, 2022 09:08 AM EDT

Ukraine team members climb on the Olympic Rings to pose for photo in the Olympic Village at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Monday, Feb. 14, 2022, in the Yanqing district of Beijing. Backers of Sapporo, Japan, to hold the 2030 Winter Olympics have gotten together to promote their bid. The Japanese city is competing with Salt Lake City, Vancouver, and a Spanish group that wants to return the Olympics to Barcelona. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
All-Japan committee meets to promote Sapporo Olympic bid

By Stephen Wade And Yuri Kageyama May. 10, 2022 02:41 AM EDT

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, center, speaks with young athletes at the Olympics Unleashed session at the Yeronga Park Sports Centre in Brisbane, Australia, Saturday, May 7, 2022. Bach was in Brisbane on Saturday for the first time since the Queensland state capital was awarded the 2032 Olympics. (Jason O'Brien/AAP Image via AP)
IOC head in Brisbane for 1st time since city awarded Games

May. 07, 2022 02:51 AM EDT

Figure skating body details proposal to hike age limit to 17

By Graham Dunbar May. 02, 2022 06:13 AM EDT
GENEVA (AP) — Figure skating’s governing body has detailed a proposal to raise the athlete age limit to 17 at the Olympics and other international events. ...

FILE - The Olympic rings are seen during the closing ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics on Feb. 20, 2022, in Beijing. Will it be 2030, the first opening on the IOC calendar? Or might the International Olympic Committee make a double award and also name the 2034 host, which it did 4 1/2 years ago when it had two strong candidates and named Paris for the 2024 Olympics and Los Angeles for 2028. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)
Salt Lake, Sapporo head race to 2030 Olympics, and maybe '34

By Stephen Wade May. 02, 2022 01:08 AM EDT