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First lady of the United States Jill Biden waves during the opening ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 23, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (Dylan Martinez/Pool Photo via AP)
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FILE - In this Aug. 17, 2016, file photo, Luisito Pie, of the Dominican Republic, left, and Jesus Tortosa, of Spain, compete in a men's Taekwondo bronze medal final at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016. One of the world's top-ranked taekwondo fighters is taking vacation in the Dominican Republic instead of competing at the Tokyo Olympics after being surprisingly excluded from the Games by the Spanish federation. Tortosa is among a few athletes worldwide who earned Olympic qualification but won’t be in Japan because in some sports the final decision on picking the teams is made by the local federations. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)
All for nothing: Athletes qualify but end out of Olympics

By Tales Azzoni Jul. 22, 2021 07:16 AM EDT

Nigeria guard Erica Erinma Ogwumike (31) watches the action alongside sisters Chiney Ogwumike, center, and Nneka Ogwumike during the first half of a pre-Olympic exhibition basketball game against the United States in Las Vegas on Sunday, July 18, 2021. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)
Court of Arbitration for Sport rejects Ogwumike's appeal

By Doug Feinberg Jul. 19, 2021 09:33 PM EDT

United States guards Sue Bird (6) and Jewell Loyd (4) gather with teammates during a break while playing Nigeria in the first half of a pre-Olympic exhibition basketball game in Las Vegas on Sunday, July 18, 2021. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)
US women earn first exhibition win, routing Nigeria 93-62

By Doug Feinberg Jul. 18, 2021 07:27 PM EDT

CAS clears 2 Russian swimmers to compete in Tokyo Olympics

Jul. 18, 2021 03:37 PM EDT
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Two Russian swimmers who were provisionally suspended by FINA for doping violations have been cleared to compete in the Tokyo...

WNBA basketball player Nneka Ogwumike, of the Los Angeles Sparks, arrives at the world premiere of "Space Jam: A New Legacy" on Monday, July 12, 2021, at Regal L.A. Live in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
AP sources: Ogwumike files appeal to play in Olympics

By Doug Feinberg Jul. 16, 2021 12:40 PM EDT

FILE - In this file photo dated Friday, Oct. 11, 2019, Oleg Verniaiev of Ukraine celebrates after his performance on the horizontal bar in the men's all-around final at the Gymnastics World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany. Olympic champion gymnast Oleg Verniaiev will miss the Tokyo Games after testing positive for a prohibited drug and banned for four-years Tuesday July 13, 2021, by the Gymnastics Ethics Foundation. Verniaiev denies wrongdoing and says he will appeal the ruling. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, FILE)
Gymnast Oleg Verniaiev out of Olympics after doping ban

Jul. 13, 2021 04:26 AM EDT

FILE - In this April 26, 2021, file photo, Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Organizing staff prepare a Paralympic swimming test event at the Tokyo Aquatics Center, in Tokyo. The Tokyo Olympics are not looking like much fun: Not for athletes. Not for fans. And not for the Japanese public, who are caught between concerns about the coronavirus at a time when few are vaccinated on one side and politicians and the International Olympic Committee who are pressing ahead on the other. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
Uzbekistan attempt to slyly qualify Olympic swimmers blocked

Jul. 12, 2021 09:35 AM EDT

FILE - In this Thursday, Aug. 18, 2016 file photo, Gold medal winner Brianna Rollins from the United States shows off her medal during the medal ceremony for the women's 100-meter hurdles final during the athletics competitions of the 2016 Summer Olympics at the Olympic stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Brianna Rollins-McNeal has been banned for five years in a doping case it was reported on Friday, June 4, 2021. The decision rules her out of this year's Tokyo Games and the 2024 Paris Games. The Athletics Integrity Unit says the American’s second career ban was for “tampering within the results management process” of doping control samples. The 29-year-old hurdler's ban runs to August 2024. AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, File)
Olympic champion McNeal loses appeal against 5-year ban

Jul. 02, 2021 10:23 AM EDT

Canadian boxer Bujold wins appeal to compete at Tokyo Games

Jun. 30, 2021 05:12 PM EDT
TORONTO (AP) — Canadian boxer Mandy Bujold looks forward to the day when she can tell her daughter that she got in the Olympic ring with sport's highest court ...

FILE - In this file photo dated Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019, Salwa Eid Naser of Bahrain, celebrates after winning gold in the women's 400 meter final at the World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar. World champion sprinter Salwa Eid Naser was banned for two years and will miss the Tokyo Olympics after sport's highest court on Wednesday, June 30, 2021 overturned a ruling that had cleared her on a technicality for doping tests she missed. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, file)
World champion sprinter Naser gets 2-year doping ban

Jun. 30, 2021 12:58 PM EDT

FILE - United States' Colleen Quigley looks at her time from heat two of the women's 3000m steeplechase at the World Athletics Championships at the Bird's Nest stadium in Beijing, in this Monday, Aug. 24, 2015, file photo. Quigley left Nike after what they've described as discriminatory or insulting business practices. "Nike was trying to offer me less than what they offered me when I came out of college,” Quigley said in a recent podcast. “To me, it was just a slap in the face.” (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
More than shoes: Nike navigates complicated twists in track

By Eddie Pells Jun. 23, 2021 01:01 PM EDT

FILE - In this Thursday, July 25, 2019 file photo, China's Sun Yang swims during a warm up session at the World Swimming Championships in Gwangju, South Korea. Chinese swimmer star Sun Yang has been banned for more than four years for breaking anti-doping rules. The verdict by the Court of Arbitration for Sport ends Sun’s hopes of defending his Olympic title in the 200 meters freestyle in Tokyo next month. His ban expires in May 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
Chinese swimmer Sun Yang banned again, misses Tokyo Olympics

By Graham Dunbar Jun. 22, 2021 10:58 AM EDT

FILE - In this file photo dated Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008, Nigeria's head coach Samson Siasia directs his players during a men's semifinal soccer match against Belgium at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Shanghai. The soccer coach who led Nigeria to win two Olympic medals had his life ban by FIFA in a match-fixing case cut to five years. The Court of Arbitration for Sport's judges say a life ban for Samson Siasia was “disproportionate” for a passive offense which didn't earn him any money. FIFA had expelled Siasia in 2019 for his past links to Singaporean match-fixer Wilson Perumal.(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
Soccer coach's life ban cut to 5 years in fixing case

By Graham Dunbar Jun. 21, 2021 09:28 AM EDT

FILE - In this Sunday, July 28, 2019, file photo, Shelby Houlihan crosses the finish line as she wins the women's 5,000-meter run at the U.S. Championships athletics meet, in Des Moines, Iowa. Banned runner Shelby Houlihan is in the lineup and will be allowed to run at U.S. Olympic track trials while any appeals she files are pending. The American record holder at 1,500 and 5,000 meters, Houlihan is on the start list for Friday’s, June 18, 2021, 5,000 preliminaries. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)
Denied by Swiss court, Houlihan not in lineup at trials

By Eddie Pells Jun. 18, 2021 08:21 PM EDT

FILE - In this Sunday, July 28, 2019, file photo, Shelby Houlihan crosses the finish line as she wins the women's 5,000-meter run at the U.S. Championships athletics meet, in Des Moines, Iowa. Houlihan, the American record holder in the 1,500 and 5,000 meters, posted on social media that she’s been banned for four years following a positive test for what she concluded was a tainted pork burrito. Houlihan said she received an email from the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) on Jan. 14, 2021, notifying her that a drug testing sample returned a finding for the anabolic steroid nandrolone. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)
Runner says tainted burrito led to test for banned substance

By The Associated Press Jun. 15, 2021 12:49 AM EDT

FILE - In this Thursday, Aug. 18, 2016 file photo, Gold medal winner Brianna Rollins from the United States shows off her medal during the medal ceremony for the women's 100-meter hurdles final during the athletics competitions of the 2016 Summer Olympics at the Olympic stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Brianna Rollins-McNeal has been banned for five years in a doping case it was reported on Friday, June 4, 2021. The decision rules her out of this year's Tokyo Games and the 2024 Paris Games. The Athletics Integrity Unit says the American’s second career ban was for “tampering within the results management process” of doping control samples. The 29-year-old hurdler's ban runs to August 2024. AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, File)
Olympic champ Rollins-McNeal banned 5 years in doping case

Jun. 04, 2021 09:35 AM EDT

FILE - In this July 21, 2019, file photo, China's Sun Yang, center, holds up his gold medal as silver medalist Australia's Mack Horton, left, stands away from the podium with bronze medalist Italy's Gabriele Detti, right, after the men's 400m freestyle final at the World Swimming Championships in Gwangju, South Korea. Two years after his controversial podium move at the world swimming championships, Australian Mack Horton still can't seem to shake off questions about the guy he intended to snub. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein,File)
Swim star Sun Yang's 3-day retrial at sports court next week

May. 18, 2021 11:21 AM EDT

US triple jumper banned from Olympics for missed drug tests

By Graham Dunbar May. 14, 2021 05:28 PM EDT
GENEVA (AP) — American triple jumper Omar Craddock was banned for 20 months on Friday over missed doping tests and will miss the Tokyo Olympics and the 2022...

FILE - In this Aug. 2, 2016, file photo, Canada's Mandy Bujold, left, knocks down Uzbekistan's Yodgoroy Mirzaeva during a women's flyweight 51-kg preliminary boxing match at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Tokyo Olympics fate for Canada’s best boxer lies in the hands of the Court of Arbitration for Sport after her qualifying tournament was scrapped due to the pandemic. Bujold and her lawyer, Sylvie Rodrigue, lost their appeal to the International Olympic Committee earlier this week, leaving CAS as her last chance to box in what would be her final Olympics. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)
Canadian boxer Mandy Bujold fighting for Olympic berth

May. 06, 2021 02:29 AM EDT