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FILE - United States' Dwight Jones tries to grab the ball as a Russian player goes for a score during the men's basketball final at the Olympic Games in Munich on Sept. 10, 1972. Russia won 51-50 to win the gold medal. Members of the 1972 team have talked about finally retrieving those silver medals they vowed to never accept and left behind in Germany. No, they still don't want them for themselves. They believe the medals belong in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, but the latest attempt to get them from the International Olympic Committee has been thwarted. (AP Photo, File)
Efforts to put '72 Olympic medals in hoop Hall thwarted

By Brian Mahoney Sep. 09, 2022 01:31 AM EDT

FILE - Mia Hamm, of the United States Women's National soccer team, celebrates a goal against Mexico during a game in Carson, Calif., Dec. 8, 2004. Mia Hamm, Lindsey Vonn, Michelle Kwan, Billie Jean King and the late Pat Summitt are among the nine individual women who will be inducted into the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Hall of Fame this summer. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)
Phelps, Vonn among those heading to US Olympic & Para Hall

Jun. 06, 2022 11:10 AM EDT

Team Australia celebrate their win over New Zealand in the gold-medal match on the final day of the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series in Langford, British Columbia, Sunday, May 1, 2022. (Chad Hipolito/The Canadian Press via AP)
Australia wins Langford title, clinches sevens world series

May. 01, 2022 10:02 PM EDT

Peter Malnati hits from the third tee of the Monterey Peninsula Country Club Shore Course during the first round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am golf tournament in Pebble Beach, Calif., Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar)
Riviera has a new president and big events headed its way

By Doug Ferguson Feb. 22, 2022 11:13 AM EST

FILE - Workers wearing protective suits stand at an hotel's reception at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Feb. 11, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)
BEIJING DIARY: A segmented city, ideal for pandemic Olympics

By Ted Anthony Feb. 13, 2022 05:36 AM EST

FILE - Chinese paramilitary police walk in formation on the Olympic Green near the edge of the closed-loop area at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, Jan. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
Beijing Olympics a step up for those in NHL playoff bubbles

By Stephen Whyno Feb. 13, 2022 03:36 AM EST

The main entrance of the Tibet Hotel is seen behind a police vehicle parked outside the hotel at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 11, 2022, in Beijing. People attending the Beijing Winter Olympics can't visit Tibet because they're in China's "closed loop" system for foreign visitors. But some visitors, including part of the Associated Press' Olympics team, are getting a taste of the region because they've been assigned to the Tibet Hotel. The hotel has been built and outfitted to evoke the remote region on China's western edge. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
BEIJING DIARY: A taste of Tibet with Chinese characteristics

By Kelvin Chan Feb. 11, 2022 07:52 PM 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

A resident wearing a face mask walks under red lanterns setup for the Lunar New Year holidays in Beijing, China, Monday, Feb. 7, 2022. As China gets back to business after a muted Chinese New Year holiday that coincided with the start of the pandemic-restricted Beijing Olympic Winter Games, the feeling inside and out of the bubble in this auspicious Year of the Tiger is that festivities for the most sacred and important holiday for the country were limited and underwhelming. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
A muted Lunar New Year, inside and outside Olympic bubble

By Sally Ho And Ken Moritsugu Feb. 07, 2022 04:53 AM EST

FILE - A guard opens the gate as an Olympic shuttle bus pulls into a hotel walled in by fences ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Jan. 29, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
Inside the Olympic bubble, looking for China — or 'China'

By Sarah Dilorenzo Feb. 06, 2022 02:14 AM EST

Emily Sweeney of United States speeds down the track during her first run of the Luge World Cup women race in Sigulda, Latvia, Sunday, Jan. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Roman Koksarov)
After the crash, Emily Sweeney back on luge's Olympic stage

By Tim Reynolds Feb. 06, 2022 12:43 AM EST

John Morris, of Canada, center, looks towards the players of Britain during the mixed doubles curling match at the Beijing Winter Olympics Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
EXPLAINER: Water Cube where Phelps ruled turns into Ice Cube

By Bernie Wilson Feb. 03, 2022 02:08 AM EST

A skier gestures to others, one wearing a suit with the characters reading "China", on the slope of the Vanke Shijinglong Ski Resort in Yanqing on the outskirts of Beijing, China, Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021. The Beijing Winter Olympics is tapping into and encouraging growing interest among Chinese in skiing, skating, hockey and other previously unfamiliar winter sports. It's also creating new business opportunities (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
China skis: Olympics brings on boom in winter sports

Jan. 28, 2022 12:09 AM EST

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping tours the National Speed Skating Oval, a competition venue for the 2022 Winter Olympics, in Beijing, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022. Competition for the Winter Olympics is scheduled to begin on Feb. 4. (Xie Huanchi/Xinhua via AP)
China spends billions on Olympics with longer-term goal

By Graham Dunbar Jan. 27, 2022 04:14 AM EST

A woman wearing a face mask to protect against COVID-19 stands next to figures of the Winter Paralympic mascot Shuey Rhon Rhon left, and Winter Olympic mascot Bing Dwen Dwen on a pedestrian shopping street in Beijing, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022. As the Beijing Winter Olympics loom, the Chinese capital is stepping measures to keep the coronavirus at bay including suspending most access to Tianjin, an adjacent major city which is dealing with an outbreak of the highly contagious omicron variant. These outbreaks are posing a test to its "zero-tolerance" COVID-19 policy and its ability to successfully host the Winter Olympics. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Beijing to offer Olympic tickets to 'selected' spectators

Jan. 17, 2022 09:09 AM EST

Brittany Charboneau, from Denver, breaks the tape as she crosses the finish line at the Walt Disney World marathon in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., Sunday, Jan. 9, 2022. The 33-year-old aspiring Olympian set a Walt Disney World marathon weekend record, sweeping all four races in consecutive days. (Gregg Newton/Walt Disney World via AP)
Aspiring Olympian sweeps 4 Disney races in "Dopey Challenge"

Jan. 10, 2022 09:48 AM EST

Ginobili, Chambers, Whalen among 1st-time hoop hall nominees

Dec. 21, 2021 05:08 PM EST
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Former San Antonio Spurs star Manu Ginobili, SuperSonics and Suns forward Tom Chambers and Olympic and WNBA champion Lindsay Whalen are...

FILE - Dario Cologna of Switzerland, left, chases after Andrey Melnichenko of Russia during the men's 15 km free style race at the Davos Nordic FIS Cross Country World Cup in Davos, Switzerland, on Dec. 16, 2018. The 2022 Olympics is just weeks away with China a more problematic host than expected for a Winter Games that had once seemed destined for Europe. The past weekend of World Cup ski events in two upscale Swiss towns that wanted to stage these Olympics showed what might have been. Games in snow-covered resorts with decades of winter sports tradition and without diplomatic boycotts or talk of human rights records. (Gian Ehrenzeller/Keystone via AP, File)
Swiss ski resorts show what 2022 Olympics could have been

By Graham Dunbar Dec. 13, 2021 07:10 AM EST

ISU cancels Four Continents short track speedskating in Utah

Dec. 11, 2021 10:13 PM EST
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Four Continents short track speedskating championships in January have been canceled because of expected limited attendance due to the new...

A visitor to the Shougang Park walks past the a sculpture for the Beijing Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021. China on Monday, Dec. 6, 2021, threatened to take "firm countermeasures" if the U.S. proceeds with a diplomatic boycott of February's Beijing Winter Olympic Games. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
China dismisses UK, Canada Olympic boycott as 'farce'

Dec. 09, 2021 06:05 AM EST