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FILE - Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas speaks to her coach after winning the 500 meter freestyle during a meet with Harvard on Jan. 22, 2022, at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Bans on transgender women in international swimming and rugby this week opened the door for track and field to consider following suit in what could turn into a wave of policy changes in Olympic sports. The announcement Sunday, June 19, 2022, by swimming's governing body, FINA, was followed quickly by a show of support from World Athletics President Sebastian Coe, who was in Hungary for the swimming world championships. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds, File)
Swimming's new transgender policy could impact other sports

By Eddie Pells Jun. 22, 2022 04:57 PM EDT

FILE - China's Gao Song, right, tries stop Australia's Lauren Jackson during their women's quarterfinal basketball game at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Aug. 7, 2012. Jackson is set to rejoin the national team at the age of 41 in a bid for another world championship medal Sydney’s Daily Telegraph newspaper reported on Tuesday, June 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)
Lauren Jackson set to return for Australia's Opals at age 41

Jun. 21, 2022 08:35 AM EDT

Kristof Milak of Hungary competes in his Men 200m Butterfly semifinal at the 19th FINA World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, Monday, June 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
Ceccon sets world record, Ledecky claims yet another title

By Ciarán Fahey Jun. 20, 2022 03:34 PM EDT

Katie Ledecky of United States celebrates after finishing first in the women's 400m freestyle final at the 19th FINA World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, June 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
Ledecky reclaims 400 title at swimming worlds, eyeing more

By Ciarán Fahey Jun. 18, 2022 03:37 PM EDT

Cody Simpson recovers after his men's 100m butterfly heat at the Australian swimming championships in Adelaide, Wednesday, May 18, 2022. Taking time out from his singing career to focus on swimming has started to pay off for Simpson, who was selected in the Commonwealth Games swim team after placing third in the 100-meter butterfly event at the Australian trials. (Dave Hunt/AAP Image via AP)
Simpson to swim rather than sing at the Commonwealth Games

May. 23, 2022 01:37 AM EDT

Swimmer Ariarne Titmus sets 400-meter freestyle world record

May. 22, 2022 06:52 AM EDT
ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) — Olympic gold medalist Ariarne Titmus has broken the women’s 400-meter freestyle world record at the Australian swimming championships. ...

FILE - Team Australia, with Tom Slingsby holding the trophy, celebrates after winning the $1 million, winner-take-all Season 2 finale of the Mubadala United States Sail Grand Prix, on March 27, 2022, in San Francisco. The Champagne showers from Team Australia's Season 2 championship have barely dried and it's already time for SailGP to start another dash for $1 million in cash. The third season of tech tycoon Larry Ellison's global league starts this weekend on the turquoise water of Bermuda's Great Sound, where, to no one's surprise, Tom Slingsby's juggernaut Aussie crew remains the one to beat. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
Slingsby's Aussies aim for SailGP 3-peat, another $1M check

By Bernie Wilson May. 13, 2022 07:33 PM EDT

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, center, speaks with young athletes at the Olympics Unleashed session at the Yeronga Park Sports Centre in Brisbane, Australia, Saturday, May 7, 2022. Bach was in Brisbane on Saturday for the first time since the Queensland state capital was awarded the 2032 Olympics. (Jason O'Brien/AAP Image via AP)
IOC head in Brisbane for 1st time since city awarded Games

May. 07, 2022 02:51 AM EDT

FILE - Belgium's Emma Meesseman (11) drives to the basket between China's Siyu Wang, left, and Yueru Li, right, during a women's basketball preliminary game at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Aug. 2, 2021, in Saitama, Japan. Meesseman, the 2019 WNBA Finals MVP, decided to join the league's reigning champion Chicago Sky as a free agent. Meesseman missed last season while helping Belgium prep for the Tokyo Olympics. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)
China's 6-10 Han among international WNBA players to watch

By Doug Feinberg May. 06, 2022 02:20 AM EDT

FILE - Australian Olympic team chef de mission for the Tokyo Olympics Ian Chesterman speaks at a ceremony to mark 100 days before the Tokyo Olympics begin, in Sydney on April 14, 2021. Chesterman has moved up from vice president to president in voting Saturday, April 30, 2022 to replace departing Australian Olympic Committee chief John Coates. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)
Chesterman elected president of Australian Olympic Committee

Apr. 29, 2022 10:28 PM EDT

FILE - John Landy of Australia leads the field at the end of the first lap of the mile race during the Empire Games, now known as the Commonwealth Games, in Vancouver, Canada, on Aug. 7, 1954. Landy, an Australian middle-distance runner who dueled with Roger Bannister to be the first person to run a four-minute mile, has died, his family said Saturday, Feb. 26, 2022. He was 91. (AP Photo, File)
John Landy, pursuer of Bannister's 4-minute mile, dies at 91

By Dennis Passa Feb. 25, 2022 07:44 PM EST

FILE - Fans cheer after a United States goal during their semifinal win over Serbia to advance to the gold medal match in the men's water polo at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Friday, Aug. 22, 2008. The Olympics are back in town 14 years later, but the atmosphere is much more subdued. Only a select few can watch the competitions in person because of the pandemic, and the 15,000 athletes, officials and others who have come for the Games have been kept completely separated from the population of Beijing. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
Beijing's 'invisible' Olympics: Muted but watched online

By Zen Soo Feb. 17, 2022 03:53 AM EST

Japan's Ayumu Hirano competes during the men's halfpipe finals at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 11, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Hirano wins Olympic gold, and saves snowboarding from a mess

By Pat Graham Feb. 11, 2022 03:58 AM EST

Hannah Neise, of Germany, starts the women's skeleton run 2 at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 11, 2022, in the Yanqing district of Beijing. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
Narracott on cusp of Australia's 1st Olympic sliding medal

By Tim Reynolds Feb. 11, 2022 12:29 AM EST

United States' Shaun White poses in the halfpipe course after the men's halfpipe finals at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 11, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
4th place can't spoil White's Olympic goodbye: 'I'm not sad'

By Eddie Pells Feb. 10, 2022 10:25 PM EST

Vladyslav Heraskevych, of Ukraine, stands in the mixed zone after finishing the men's skeleton run 4 at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 11, 2022, in the Yanqing district of Beijing. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Olympics Live: IOC won't act on 'No War in Ukraine' sign

Feb. 10, 2022 08:29 PM EST

United States' Lindsey Jacobellis celebrates after winning a gold medal in the women's cross finals at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
Finishing touch: 16 years later, Jacobellis gets her gold

By Eddie Pells And Pat Graham Feb. 09, 2022 03:09 AM EST

A skier trains on the half-pipe ahead of at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
EXPLAINER: All those flips and twists on Olympic halfpipe

By Eddie Pells Feb. 08, 2022 08:54 PM EST

Stefania Constantini, left, of Italy, celebrates a win with teammate Amos Mosaner, right, during the mixed doubles curling match against Canada at the Beijing Winter Olympics Monday, Feb. 7, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
Twice on Olympic ice is nice for American curler Chris Plys

By Jimmy Golen Feb. 07, 2022 12:13 AM EST

From left, silver medalist United State's Jaelin Kauf, gold medalist Australia's Jakara Anthony and bronze medalist Anastasiia Smirnva, of the Russian Olympic Committee, celebrate after the women's moguls finals at Genting Snow Park at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Sunday, Feb. 6, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Smooth run on bumpy course nets Anthony Olympic moguls title

By Pat Graham Feb. 06, 2022 08:42 AM EST