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Members of the Geneva branch of Ukrainian society in Switzerland protest during a rally to urge International Olympic Committee to reconsider their decision of participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes under white neutral flag at the next 2024 Paris Olympic Games, in front of the IOC headquarters, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Saturday, March 25, 2023. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP)
Hundreds of fencers protest against letting Russians compete
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FILE - A display of the Olympic rings is set up on Trocadero plaza that overlooks the Eiffel Tower, after the vote in Lima, Peru, awarding the 2024 Games to the French capital, in Paris, France, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017. A proposed French law for the 2024 Paris Olympics that critics contend will open the door for privacy busting video surveillance technology in France and elsewhere in Europe faces an important hurdle Tuesday March 28, 2023 with lawmakers set to vote on it. The bill would legalize the temporary use of so-called "intelligent" surveillance systems to safeguard the Games and Paralympics. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)
Lawmakers vote on Paris Olympic law with surveillance fears
By John Leicester
4 hrs ago
FILE - Mariya Lasitskene, of Russian Olympic Committee, reacts after winning the women's high jump final at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 7, 2021, in Tokyo. Track and field leaders signaled Thursday, March 23, 2023, that it will be nearly impossible for Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete at the Paris Olympics next year if the war in Ukraine continues.(AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
UN expert advising IOC gives views on Russians at Olympics
By Graham Dunbar
Mar. 27, 2023 06:46 AM EDT
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina of Spain returns to Tommy Paul during the Miami Open tennis tournament, Sunday, March 26, 2023, in Miami Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Andreescu, Paul advance to 4th round at Miami Open
Mar. 26, 2023 07:34 PM EDT
FILE - A passenger jet flies over the Olympic rings on display outside the Olympic Stadium where the athletic events are underway at the 2020 Summer Olympics Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. Mexico has declared its desire to host the Summer Olympics in 2036 or 2040 and says it already has most of the sports infrastructure required. Interest in hosting the 2036 Olympics had earlier been expressed by officials in countries including Egypt, England, India, Indonesia, Qatar and South Korea. Mexico City hosted the Summer Games in 1968. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
Mexico hopes to host Summer Olympics in 2036 or 2040
Mar. 25, 2023 09:00 AM EDT
FILE - Vadym Guttsait, Ukraine's Youth and Sport Minister and President of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine, talks during an interview with The Associated Press in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 14, 2023. Gutzeit has pushed for a total ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes from the 2024 Paris Games in an interview with The Associated Press. One year after the invasion of Ukraine began, Russia's reintegration into the world of sports threatens to create the biggest rift in the Olympic movement since the Cold War. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Ukraine pushes for continued Russian Olympic exclusion
Mar. 24, 2023 11:55 AM EDT
FILE - Simone Biles, of the United States, poses wearing her bronze medal from balance beam competition during artistic gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. The sport of gymnastics' international investigations agency was created in 2019 to help protect athletes after the American sexual abuse scandal. The Gymnastics Ethics Foundation has now published its strategy to set new standards in safeguarding before the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. The “Gymnasts 2028” details goals for its work to protect athletes from harassment and abuse, investigate complaints, prosecute disciplinary cases and monitor national federations. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko,File)
Ethics agency to better protect gymnasts for LA Olympics
By Graham Dunbar
Mar. 23, 2023 04:50 PM EDT
FILE - A Russian flag is held above the Olympic Rings at Adler Arena Skating Center during the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia on Feb. 18, 2014. Russia and its ally Belarus have been invited to compete at the Asian Games in the next step to qualify athletes for next year's Paris Olympics. One year after the invasion of Ukraine began, Russia's reintegration into the world of sports threatens to create the biggest rift in the Olympic movement since the Cold War. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
Track stymies Russian path to Olympics due to war in Ukraine
By Eddie Pells
Mar. 23, 2023 01:40 PM EDT
FILE - International Olympic Committee, IOC, President Thomas Bach attends the opening of the Executive Board meeting at the Olympic House in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Dec. 5, 2022. Bach defended his organization's efforts to create a pathway for Russian and Belarusian athletes to return to Olympic competition in a speech in his home country of Germany which took place amid a pro-Ukraine protest, Wednesday, March 22, 2023, (Denis Balibouse/Pool Photo via AP, File)
IOC's Bach defends Russia stance amid pro-Ukraine protest
Mar. 22, 2023 06:24 PM EDT
FILE - Britain's gold medalists Helen Glover, left, and Heather Stanning pose for photographs with their medals after the medal ceremony for the women's rowing pair rowing event at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Aug. 12, 2016. Two-time Olympic rowing champion Helen Glover is making another comeback in a bid to qualify for a fourth Summer Games, saying she will be representing a “whole community of parents" in elite sport. (Ezra Shaw/Pool Photo via AP, File)
Olympic rowing champion Helen Glover aiming for Paris Games
Mar. 22, 2023 06:40 AM EDT
Paris Olympics organizers looking for 45,000 volunteers
Mar. 21, 2023 07:06 AM EDT
PARIS (AP) — The Paris Olympics is putting out a call for 45,000 helpers. Organizers of the 2024 Games are launching a drive this week to recruit tens...
The Olympic athletes' village construction site is pictured In Saint Denis, outside Paris, Saturday, March 18, 2023. Some Paris 2024 Olympic hopefuls have expressed concern over the lack of air conditioning units in the athletes' village that will be home for thousands of athletes and sports officials during next year's Summer Games.(AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
Paris aims to keep Olympians cool without air conditioners
By Barbara Surk And Samuel Petrequin
Mar. 20, 2023 11:42 AM EDT
Archivo - Los anillos olímpicos en la Place du Trocadero de París el 13 de septiembre de 2017 tras una votación en Lima que otorgó los JJOO de 2024 a la capital francesa. El martes 14 de marzo del 2023, el presidente de Francia Emmanuel Macron lanza el conteo a 500 días del inicio de los Juegos. (AP Foto/Francois Mori , Archivo)
New ticket lottery launches for Paris 2024 Olympics
Mar. 15, 2023 06:32 PM EDT
Russia offers to host new sports event with China, India
Mar. 15, 2023 08:12 AM EDT
NEW DELHI (AP) — Russia offered Wednesday to host a new multi-sports event for countries such as China and India which are members of a regional grouping known as...
FILE - The Olympic rings are seen on the Place du Trocadero that overlooks the Eiffel Tower, after the vote in Lima, Peru, awarding the 2024 Games to the French capital, in Paris, Sept. 13, 2017. Organizers of the Paris 2024 Olympics promised Games with a relatively modest price tag and "egalitarian" access to events, thanks to an online draw meant to revolutionize ticket sales and bring the masses to next year's Olympics with prices as low as 24 euros ($26). But as the first round of ticketing winds down, many "lucky" winners chosen for the draw are feeling frustrated, angry and cheated, as their only option during the 48-hour purchasing window was paying at least 200 euros per ticket for the few remaining events on offer. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)
Macron launches 500-day countdown to Paris Olympics
By The Associated Press
Mar. 14, 2023 02:32 PM EDT
USA Swimming offers cash for Olympic relay sweep
Mar. 14, 2023 01:22 PM EDT
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — USA Swimming will reward its athletes financially if the Americans sweep all seven relays at this summer’s world championships and the...
FILE - Ukraine's Oleg Verniaiev celebrates after winning gold in the parallel bars during the artistic gymnastics men's apparatus final at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Aug. 16, 2016. The doping ban which caused Olympic gymnastics champion Oleg Verniaiev to miss the Tokyo Games was halved at the Court of Arbitration for Sport on Tuesday March 14, 2023, and freed him to compete immediately. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, File)
Ukrainian Olympic gymnast Verniaiev's doping ban halved
Mar. 14, 2023 12:53 PM EDT
Marte Olsbu Roiseland of Norway warms up before the women's 15km individual event of the Biathlon World Cup, in Ostersund, Sweden, Thursday, March 9, 2023. (Anders Wiklund/TT News Agency via AP)
Biathlon great Marte Olsbu Roeiseland retires
Mar. 14, 2023 06:48 AM EDT
File - From left to right, Madeleine Moreau, of France (silver medallist, 139.34 points); Patricia McCormick, of the United States (gold, 147.30 points); and United States' Zoe Jensen (bronze, 127.57 points), spose after the women's 3-meter springboard diving event at the Summer Olympics Games in Helsinki, Finland, on July 30, 1952. McCormick died Tuesday, March 7, 2023, in Santa Ana, Calif., at age 92, according to her son, Tim McCormick. (AP Photo/Pool, File)
Pat McCormick, 4-time Olympic diving champion, dies at 92
By Beth Harris
Mar. 10, 2023 09:44 PM EST
FILE - The Olympic rings are seen on the Place du Trocadero that overlooks the Eiffel Tower, after the vote in Lima, Peru, awarding the 2024 Games to the French capital, in Paris, Sept. 13, 2017. Organizers of the Paris 2024 Olympics promised Games with a relatively modest price tag and "egalitarian" access to events, thanks to an online draw meant to revolutionize ticket sales and bring the masses to next year's Olympics with prices as low as 24 euros ($26). But as the first round of ticketing winds down, many "lucky" winners chosen for the draw are feeling frustrated, angry and cheated, as their only option during the 48-hour purchasing window was paying at least 200 euros per ticket for the few remaining events on offer. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)
Britain lobbies Olympic sponsors over IOC's Russia stance
Mar. 10, 2023 07:04 PM EST