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Japanese Olympic Committee President Yasuhiro Yamashita, from left, and Sapporo Mayor Katsuhiro Akimoto listen to International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, right, speak during a news conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Jan. 11, 2020. Sapporo's bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics has been slowed, but not stopped, by fallout from the still-developing corruption scandal around the 2020 Tokyo Games. (Masashi Inoue/Kyodo News via AP)

Sapporo election could restart bid for 2030 Winter Olympics

By Stephen Wade And Yuri Kageyama Apr. 06, 2023 01:57 AM EDT

FILE - A general view of the Education City Stadium in Doha, Qatar, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic, File)

EXPLAINER: What's post-World Cup future for Qatar's stadiums

By Graham Dunbar Dec. 05, 2022 04:45 PM EST

Gold medal winner, Aaron Gate of New Zealand, center, celebrates during the men's 40km points race final during the Commonwealth Games track cycling at Lee Valley VeloPark in London, Monday, Aug. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Ian Walton)

Aussies change handlebars at Commonwealths and keep winning

By Courtney Walsh Aug. 01, 2022 10:20 AM EDT

Finland's Jon Sallinen competes during the men's halfpipe qualification at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Olympic ski halfpipe qualifier filled with scary crashes

By Pat Graham Feb. 17, 2022 05:25 AM EST

Sofia Goggia, of Italy, silver, top left, and Nadia Delago, of Italy, bronze, celebrate on the shoulders of teammates after the medal ceremony for the women's downhill at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022, in the Yanqing district of Beijing. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

On bad knee, Goggia gets Olympic downhill silver; Suter wins

By Howard Fendrich Feb. 15, 2022 12:26 AM EST

United States' Chloe Kim reacts during the women's halfpipe finals at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Olympics Live: Germany sweeps luge golds with team relay

Feb. 09, 2022 08:10 PM EST

Johannes Ludwig, of Germany, prepares for a luge men's run at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Saturday, Feb. 5, 2022, in the Yanqing district of Beijing. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Germany's Ludwig has lead midway through men's Olympic luge

By Tim Reynolds Feb. 05, 2022 09:12 AM EST

FILE - Gold medalist Pierre Vaultier of France, left, leads, from second left to right, silver medalist Nikolai Olyunin of Russia, PaulHenri de le Rue of France, and bronze medalist Alex Deibold of the United States, in the men's snowboard cross final at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Feb. 18, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. Deibold suffered a head injury in a crash during qualifying at a World Cup event just days before his arrival in China. His absence hit his teammates’ hard. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits, File)

For Alex: US snowboardcrossers have injured Deibold on mind

By Pat Graham Feb. 05, 2022 08:09 AM EST

A medical personnel checks on Japan's Rina Yoshika after she fell on the slopestyle course ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

The Latest: Japanese snowboarder Yoshika injured in crash

Feb. 03, 2022 12:07 AM EST

Brazilian skier out of Olympics after car crash in Italy

Jan. 28, 2022 07:33 AM EST
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian cross-country skier Bruna Moura will miss the Beijing Olympics after sustaining multiple fractures in a car crash in Italy. ...

FILE - Saba Kumaritashvili of Georgia poses for a photo before speeding down the track during a men's race at the 52th FIL Luge European Championships in Sigulda, Latvia, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021. Saba Kumaritashvili will compete in luge next month at the Beijing Olympics, 12 years after his cousin Nodar Kumaritashvili died in a training accident at the Vancouver Games. (AP Photo/Sandra Skutane, File)

For Nodar: Georgian luge family makes a return to Olympics

By Tim Reynolds Jan. 26, 2022 02:29 AM EST

Italy's Sofia Goggia leaves the course of an alpine ski, women's World Cup super-G race in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Sunday, Jan. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Gabriele Facciotti)

Goggia eyes return for Olympic downhill after latest crash

By Andrew Dampf Jan. 23, 2022 01:58 PM EST

Injured Polish luge athlete picked for Beijing Olympics

By Tim Reynolds Jan. 19, 2022 12:31 PM EST
A Polish luge athlete who was seriously injured in a November training crash at the track built for next month’s Olympics plans to head back to that venue and...

FILE - Trinidad and Tobago's bronze medalist Deon Lendore poses during the medal ceremony for the men's 400-meter final at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Birmingham, Britain, on March 3, 2018. Lendore, 29, a former Olympic sprinter and bronze medalist for Trinidad & Tobago and NCAA champion at Texas A&M, was killed in a head-on collision in Texas, state police said, Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

Trinidad Olympic sprinter Deon Lendore killed in Texas crash

Jan. 11, 2022 05:26 PM EST

Luge officials: Olympic luge track crash was 'human error'

By Tim Reynolds Nov. 11, 2021 10:05 AM EST
The International Luge Federation said Thursday that “human error" caused a Polish athlete to crash and suffer serious leg injuries in a training run this week...