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FILE - John Roethlisberger, of Falcon Heights, Minn., hugs his dad Fred after his final event in the men's 2000 U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Trials in Boston, in this Saturday, Aug. 19, 2000, file photo. Roethlisberger was chosen for the U.S. Olympic team. The cutback in NCAA athletic programs due to the COVID-19 pandemic is being felt acutely in men's gymnastics. For decades Division I programs have produced an overwhelming majority of the US Olympic team. The number of Division I programs, however, is shrinking. The University of Minnesota and the University of Iowa will stop offering it as a scholarship sport at the end of the month. That will drop the number of Division I schools to 11. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)
Olympic Gold: Men's gymnastics struggling to survive

By Will Graves Apr. 09, 2021 12:04 PM EDT

FILE - In this file photo dated Monday, Dec. 9, 2019, President-Elect of World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Witold Banka, left, President of World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Craig Reedie, center, and Director General of World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Olivier Niggli, right, arrive for a press conference after the WADA's extraordinary Executive Committee (ExCo) on the Russian doping data manipulation, in Lausanne, Switzerland. WADA announced a ban for Russia from international sporting events for four years. The Court of Arbitration for Sport judges will start on Monday Nov. 2, 2020, hearing four days of evidence and argument about allegations of a manipulated database from the Moscow testing laboratory. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone FILE via AP)
Russia's reputation, Olympic status on trial for doping

By Graham Dunbar Oct. 30, 2020 08:13 AM EDT