Sports governance
FILE - Kenyan athletes train together just after dawn on a dusty track in Kaptagat Forest in western Kenya, on Jan. 30, 2016. The threat of an imminent ban by track and field governing body World Athletics, which would likely have repercussions for a number of medal contenders at next year's world championships and the 2024 Paris Olympics was conceded by the Kenyan sports ministry in a statement issued on Thursday, Nov. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
Kenya faces threat of athletics ban for doping 'crisis'

By Gerald Imray Nov. 25, 2022 03:44 AM EST

Sunny Choi, B-Girl Sunny, poses for a portrait during the media day for Red Bull BC One World Finals, Friday, Nov. 11, 2022, in New York. The International Olympic Committee announced two years ago that breaking would become an official Olympic sport, a development that divided the breaking community between those excited for the larger platform and those concerned about the art form’s purity. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
Break it down: Dancers begin charting path to Paris Olympics

By Aaron Morrison Nov. 22, 2022 02:12 PM EST

FILE - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, left, and President of the Russian figure skating federation Alexander Gorshkov, center, attend the pairs competition at the ISU Figure skating World championships in Moscow, April 27, 2011. Russian ice dancer Alexander Gorshkov has died at the age of 76, it was announced Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022. He won the first Olympic ice dance gold medal for the Soviet Union at the 1976 Games and later became a leading official in Russian figure skating.(AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Pool, file)
Olympic ice dance champion Gorshkov dies at 76

Nov. 17, 2022 04:33 AM EST

FILE - The Olympic flame burns as fireworks explode during the opening ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 23, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. Creative director Marco Balich, reveals to The Associated Press that he has been working for a year on a 30-minute show that will run ahead of the World Cup 2022 opening game between Qatar and Ecuador. He says local organizers "wanted to create a real show, which FIFA is not accustomed to.” (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
AP Exclusive: Balich leads Olympics-style World Cup ceremony

By Andrew Dampf Nov. 16, 2022 04:05 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

Modern pentathlon votes to swap horse riding with obstacles

By The Associated Press Nov. 12, 2022 08:43 PM EST
The federations for modern pentathlon approved a decision to replace horse riding with “American Ninja Warrior”-style obstacle courses as a fifth discipline in order...

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...

Philadelphia 76ers' P.J. Tucker saves a ball from going out of bounds during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Milwaukee Bucks, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
76ers stripped of 2nd-round picks next 2 years for tampering

Oct. 31, 2022 04:28 PM EDT

Madison Chock, left, and Evan Bates, of the United States, acknowledge the audience after performing during the Ice Dance Free Dance program at the Grand Prix Skate America Series, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022, in Norwood, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
American skaters blast RUSADA secrecy in Valieva doping case

By Dave Skretta Oct. 23, 2022 04:18 PM EDT

Olympic officials talk with 10 bidders for 2036 Summer Games

Oct. 20, 2022 11:37 AM EDT
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The IOC is in talks with 10 potential candidates to host a future Summer Games, the global group of national Olympic leaders was told...

President of the Association of National Olympic Committees's, ANOC, Robin Mitchell answers questions during a news conference in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022. The president of Iran’s national Olympic committee claimed Thursday that competitive climber Elnaz Rekabi will not be punished or suspended after competing in South Korea over the weekend without wearing her nation’s mandatory headscarf. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
Iran's Olympic chief claims no punishment coming for climber

By Kim Tong-Hyung Oct. 20, 2022 08:43 AM EDT

FILE - Madison Chock and Evan Bates, of the United States, compete in the team ice dance program during the figure skating competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Monday, Feb. 7, 2022, in Beijing. Eight months after finishing behind the Russians at the Winter Games, the U.S. team has yet to receive its medals, or even know whether they will be silver or gold. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
US figure skaters still await medals from Beijing Games

By Dave Skretta Oct. 19, 2022 02:46 PM EDT

Kadokawa Corp. Chairman Tsuguhiko Kadokawa speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Sept. 5, 2022. Kadokawa was charged Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022 with bribing a former Tokyo Olympics organizing committee member. (Kyodo News via AP)
Bribes scandal continues to sully Tokyo Olympic legacy

By Yuri Kageyama And Stephen Wade Oct. 19, 2022 01:08 AM EDT

This photo provided by the Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne shows Sophie Hernandez competing at a test event in Ankara, Turkey on June 28, 2022. As it stands now, modern pentathlon — a sport in the Olympics for more than 100 years — would be off the program in its current form after the 2024 Paris Games. “Changes are not something we like. But we can adapt to it," modern pentathlete Sophie Hernandez of Guatemala said. “We have to move forward. Because we don’t want to lose the Olympics.”(Augustas Didzgalvis/UIPM via AP)
Olympic pentathlon eyes 'Ninja Warrior' courses for survival

By Pat Graham Oct. 05, 2022 01:40 AM EDT

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures during a ceremony to sign the treaties for four regions of Ukraine to join Russia, at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. The signing of the treaties making the four regions part of Russia follows the completion of the Kremlin-orchestrated "referendums." (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
IOC's Bach eyes return to sports for anti-war Russians

By Graham Dunbar Sep. 30, 2022 11:31 AM EDT

Far-Right party Brothers of Italy's leader Giorgia Meloni speaks to the media at her party's electoral headquarters in Rome, early Monday, Sept. 26, 2022. Italians voted in a national election that might yield the nation's first government led by the far right since the end of World War II. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
IOC president Bach meets with Meloni over 2026 concerns

Sep. 29, 2022 01:17 PM EDT

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and General Secretary of the Russian Boxing Federation, member of the Executive Committee of the International Boxing Association (AIBA) Umar Kremlev attend an opening of the new International Sambo and Boxing centre at the Luzhniki Sports Complex in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
Boxing body won't hold new election, damaging Olympic hopes

By Greg Beacham Sep. 25, 2022 04:47 PM EDT

FILE - China's Dongpeng Shi competes in a heat of the 110m Hurdles at the World Athletics Championships in Daegu, South Korea, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. The governing body of track and field has acted against suspected systematic cheating in results from qualifying events for the Tokyo Olympics and age manipulation of athletes up to 20 years ago. Chinese athlete Shi Dongpeng was stripped of his silver medal in 110-meter hurdles at the 2002 world junior championships. Shi went on to compete at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics but did not reach either final in his event. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)
Track body acts on suspected systematic cheating in results

By Graham Dunbar Sep. 23, 2022 11:20 AM EDT

Sportlight: Week Ahead, Sept. 23-30

By The Associated Press Sep. 22, 2022 10:00 AM EDT
Sept. 27 1894 — Aqueduct Race Track opens its doors. The building is torn down in 1955 and the new Aqueduct reopens on Sept. 14, 1959. ...

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach addresses a ceremony on the 50th anniversary of the deadly attack on the Israeli Olympic team at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich by a Palestinian militant group, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. The head of the International Olympic Committee has apologized for the organization's longtime failure to commemorate 11 Israeli athletes killed by Palestinian militants at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Bach said the Palestinian attack in Munich was one of "the darkest days in Olympic history" and an assault on the Olympic Games and its values. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
IOC chief sorry for not honoring 1972 Olympic attack victims

Sep. 21, 2022 01:15 PM EDT