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Kazakhstan's Akmarzhan Kalmurzayeva falls as she competes during the women's aerials qualification at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Monday, Feb. 14, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
AP PHOTOS: Winter Olympians take crash course in physics

Feb. 14, 2022 07:45 AM EST

A young volunteer helps to direct traffic at a junction where a screen is showing an ad for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022. The possibility of a large outbreak in the bubble, potentially sidelining athletes from competitions, has been a greater fear than any leakage into the rest of China. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Beijing's ambitious Olympic COVID bubble: So far, so good

By Huizhong Wu And Ken Moritsugu Feb. 11, 2022 12:16 AM EST

FILE - Workers gesture near the Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Center under construction for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics in Zhangjiakou in northwestern China's Hebei province on on Dec. 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)
EXPLAINER: Olympics show complexity of sustainability claims

By Candice Choi And Kelvin Chan Feb. 10, 2022 10:35 PM EST

A person in protective gear walks by an air purifier after emptying water at the curling venue ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
BEIJING DIARY: Testing positive at the no-COVID Olympics

By John Leicester Feb. 09, 2022 05:15 AM EST

A person works at a snow making machine on a hill overlooking cross-country skiing practice before the 2022 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
EXPLAINER: How to stage Olympics in a snow-challenged city

By Kelvin Chan Feb. 05, 2022 05:21 AM EST

FILE - North Dakota defenseman Jake Sanderson plays against Penn State during an NCAA college hockey game on Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021, in Nashville, Tenn. USA Hockey and Hockey Canada are eyeing several college players to play at the Olympics after the NHL decided not to participate in Beijing. North Dakota’s Jake Sanderson has already agreed to play for the U.S. (AP Photo/John Amis, File)
US starts Olympic preparation in Beijing without 3 players

By Stephen Whyno Feb. 04, 2022 04:35 AM EST

An athlete from the Netherlands skates during a speed skating practice session ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
Olympic ice rinks put spotlight on potent greenhouse gases

By Candice Choi Feb. 04, 2022 01:43 AM EST

Police officers detain protesters displaying a Tibetan flag and a banner disrupting the lighting of the Olympic flame at Ancient Olympia site, birthplace of the ancient Olympics in southwestern Greece, Monday, Oct. 18, 2021. The flame will be transported by torch relay to Beijing, China, which will host the Feb. 4-20, 2022 Winter Olympics. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
Protestors disrupt flame lighting for Beijing Winter Games

By Nicholas Paphitis And Thanassis Stavrakis Oct. 18, 2021 05:37 AM EDT

France's Jeremy Flores rides a wave during a training session at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 23, 2021, at Tsurigasaki beach in Ichinomiya, Japan. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Surfing science: Dependent on weather, defined by the ocean

By Sally Ho Jul. 24, 2021 05:31 AM EDT

Naomi Osaka stands beside the Olympic flame after lighting it during the opening ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 23, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Tokyo Olympic flame is the first powered by hydrogen

Jul. 23, 2021 10:57 AM EDT

Surfer Anat Lelior, of Israel, rides a wave during a practice session at Tsurigasaki beach at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in Ichinomiya, Japan, Wednesday, July 21, 2021. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
EXPLAINER: Surfing, where the playing field is never level

By Sally Ho Jul. 21, 2021 10:25 PM EDT

People wearing masks to help protect against the spread of the coronavirus walk in front of a screen showing the news on U.S. warning against visits to Japan Tuesday, May 25, 2021, in Tokyo. U.S. health officials and the State Department on Monday warned Americans against travel to Japan because of a surge in coronavirus cases in the country, which is preparing to host the Olympics in just two months. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
Japan says US travel warning for virus won't hurt Olympians

By Mari Yamaguchi May. 25, 2021 05:23 AM EDT

NRL's 'Project Apollo' aims to provide smooth landing in Oz

By John Pye Apr. 03, 2020 02:48 AM EDT
It has been dubbed the Project Apollo, a think tank tasked with giving Australia’s National Rugby League a smooth landing when the season resumes following a...

Tiffany Pinckney poses for a portrait in the Harlem neighborhood of New York on April 1, 2020. After a period of quarantine at home separated from her children, she has recovered from COVID-19. Pinckney became one of the nations first donors of "convalescent plasma." Using the blood product is experimental but scientists hope it could help treat the seriously ill and plan to test if it might offer some protection against infection for those at high risk. (AP Photo/Marshall Ritzell)
Coronavirus survivor: 'In my blood, there may be answers'

By Lauran Neergaard And Marshall Ritzel Apr. 03, 2020 01:05 AM EDT

FILE - This file aerial photo, date not known, shows Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M. The U.S. government's efforts to clean up decades worth of Cold War-era waste from nuclear research and bomb making at federal sites around the country has chugged along, often at a pace that watchdogs and other critics say threatens public health and the environment. Now, fallout from the global coronavirus pandemic is resulting in more challenges as the nation's only underground repository for nuclear waste, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, finished ramping down operations Wednesday, April 1, 2020, to keep workers safe. (The Albuquerque Journal via AP, File)
Cleanup of US nuclear waste takes back seat as virus spreads

By Susan Montoya Bryan Apr. 03, 2020 01:02 AM EDT

The Manhattan skyline is seen behind the parking lot and terminal of the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, Thursday, April 2, 2020 in New York. N.Y. New York Gov. Governor Andrew Cuomo announced last week that the terminal with be transformed into a temporary field hospital to increase New York's hospital capacity while cases of the coronavirus skyrocket. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
NYC residents should cover face when in public, mayor says

By Marina Villeneuve And Michael Hill Apr. 02, 2020 03:47 PM EDT

Member of Hevra Kadisha, an organization which prepares bodies of deceased Jews for burial according to Jewish tradition, waits during a funeral of a Jewish man who died from coronavirus in the costal city of Ashkelon, Israel, Thursday, April 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
Iran parliament speaker, Israeli health minister have virus

By Amir Vahdat And Ilan Ben Zion Apr. 02, 2020 03:12 PM EDT

People walk by a departures monitor at the Rome Leonardo da Vinci international airport, Thursday, March 12, 2020. Italians woke up to yet further virus-containment restrictions after Premier Giuseppe Conte ordered restaurants, cafes and retail shops closed after imposing a nationwide lockdown on personal movement. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
The Latest: Japan's Olympics minister reaffirms no delay

By The Associated Press Mar. 13, 2020 03:14 AM EDT