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FILE - In this Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, file photo, Saeid Mollaei of Iran, top, competes against Didar Khamza of Kazakhstan during their men's - 81kg final judo match at the18th Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia. A group of athletes and human rights activists is calling on the IOC to sanction Iran's Olympic program for what it says is the country's long-running pattern of ordering athletes to avoid competing against Israelis in international events. Last month, the Court of Arbitration for Sport overturned Iran's suspension from international judo events in a case stemming from former world champion Saeid Mollaei's departure from the Iranian team; Mollaei had claimed he was ordered to lose matches and withdraw from competitions to avoid facing Israelis. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana, File)
Activists call for IOC to sanction Iran Olympic program

8 hrs ago

FILE- In this Aug. 11, 2012, file photo, United States' Deedee Trotter, right, Sanya Richards-Ross, front center, and Allyson Felix, back left, celebrate winning gold in the women's 4x400-meter relay final during the athletics in the Olympic Stadium at the Summer Olympics in London. Richards-Ross will provide fashion and lifestyle commentary of the Kentucky Derby on NBC on May 1. The network is announcing her addition to its coverage Tuesday morning. April 20, 2021. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
Olympian Richards-Ross joins Kentucky Derby coverage on NBC

12 hrs ago

The logo of 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics and Paralympics, right, are unveiled to the journalists at a press conference in Rome, Tuesday, March 30, 2021. A futuristic white-on-white logo was unveiled as the emblem for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics on Tuesday following an online vote. Nearly a million votes were cast, 871,566 to be exact, over the last two weeks from Italy and 168 other nations for the two finalists. The “Futura” logo received 75 percent of the votes, winning easily ahead of the more traditional “Dado” option. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
IOC reluctantly accepts plan for 2026 Cortina bobsled track

Apr. 19, 2021 12:16 PM EDT

Belgian Olympians get priority vaccines ahead of Tokyo Games

Apr. 19, 2021 11:22 AM EDT
BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian Olympians traveling to Japan for the Tokyo Games were promised priority treatment for COVID-19 vaccines on Monday. ...

FILE - In this March 19, 2021, file photo, people take pictures of the Olympic rings installed by the Japan Olympic Museum in Tokyo. The vaccine rollout in Japan has been very slow with less than 1% vaccinated. This of course is spilling over to concerns about the postponed Tokyo Olympics that open in just over three months.(AP Photo/Hiro Komae, File)
Will Japanese Olympians be vaccinated ahead of the public?

By Stephen Wade Apr. 19, 2021 05:11 AM EDT

Van Aert, Vos sprint to classics win at Amstel Gold Race

Apr. 18, 2021 02:09 PM EDT
VALKENBURG, Netherlands (AP) — Wout van Aert beat Tom Pidcock in a photo finish at the Amstel Gold Race on Sunday, while Marianne Vos accelerated away from...

Dani Stevens competes in the women's discus at the Australian Track and Field Championships in Sydney, Sunday, April 18, 2021. Former world champion Stevens has been selected to the Australian team for her fourth Olympics less than a year after fearing she'd miss the Tokyo Games because of a career-threatening neck injury. (Dean Lewins/AAP Image via AP)
No masks, no worries — for now; Aussies preparing for Tokyo

By John Pye Apr. 18, 2021 06:36 AM EDT

Seiko Hashimoto, the head of the Tokyo Olympics speaks during a press conference in Tokyo, Friday, April 16, 2021. Tokyo Olympic organizers are again being forced to assure the world that the postponed games will open in just over three months despite surging COVID-19 cases in Japan.(Kyodo News via AP)
Column: The Tokyo Olympics will go on, but in name only

By Paul Newberry Apr. 16, 2021 04:41 PM EDT

USA's Nathan Chen performs during the men's free skating program of the ISU World Team Trophy figure skating competition in Osaka, western Japan, Friday, April 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)
Chen tops Hanyu to win men's free skate at World Team Trophy

Apr. 16, 2021 10:22 AM EDT

FILE - In this Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019 file photo, IAAF President British Lord Sebastian Coe at the award ceremony during the Weltklasse IAAF Diamond League international athletics meeting in the stadium Letzigrund in Zurich, Switzerland. The Diamond League will hold its season opener in Britain for the first time with Gateshead replacing Rabat as the 2021 campaign’s first host city, it was announced Friday, April 16, 2021. Diamond League chairman Sebastian Coe says it’s an “incredibly important year” with track-and-field athletes preparing for this summer’s Tokyo Olympics as well as next year’s World Athletics Championships in Oregon. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP, file)
Gateshead replaces Rabat for Diamond League season opener

Apr. 16, 2021 07:26 AM EDT

FILE - In this Sunday, Sept. 29, 2019 file photo, Christian Coleman of the United States, gold winner, bites on his medal during the medal ceremony for the men's 100m at the World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar. The fastest man in the world will miss the Tokyo Olympics after failing in an appeal to overturn his ban for missed doping tests, it was announced on Friday, April 16, 2021. American sprinter Christian Coleman did have his ban cut from two years to 18 months by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.  (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, file)
Christian Coleman to miss Olympics despite reduced ban

By Graham Dunbar Apr. 16, 2021 04:00 AM EDT

FILE - In this April 14, 2021, file photo, Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games mascot Miraitowa poses with a display of Olympic Symbol after an unveiling ceremony of the symbol on Mt. Takao in Hachioji, west of Tokyo to mark 100 days before the start of the Olympic Games. Japan is set to raise the coronavirus alert level in Tokyo’s three neighboring prefectures and a forth area in central Japan to allow tougher measures as a more contagious coronavirus variant spreads and doubts are growing whether the Olympics can go ahead. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Pool Photo via AP)
Head of Tokyo Olympics again says games will not be canceled

By Stephen Wade Apr. 16, 2021 02:55 AM EDT

ITF moves rankings cutoff for Olympic tennis to June 14

Apr. 15, 2021 11:39 AM EDT
LONDON (AP) — The WTA and ATP rankings of June 14 will be used to determine which tennis players earn direct entry into the Tokyo Olympics for singles and...

South African long distance athlete Caster Semenya on her way to winning the 5,000 meters at the South African national championships in Pretoria, South Africa, Thursday, April 15, 2021. Semenya said she's likely to focus on long-distance events for the rest of her career. (AP Photo/Christiaan Kotze)
'Distance makes sense:' Semenya pins Olympic hopes on 5,000

Apr. 15, 2021 05:40 AM EDT

Retired two-time Olympic medalist Andrew Weibrecht poses for a selfie while backcountry skiing on the Nye Mountain Trail on Jan. 31, 2021, just outside Lake Placid, N.Y., in an effort to raise money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. (Andrew Weibrecht via AP
Super-G ace Andrew Weibrecht back on skis for Make-A-Wish

Apr. 15, 2021 02:12 AM EDT

NSW wins toss, bats 1st in Australian domestic cricket final

Apr. 14, 2021 08:22 PM EDT
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Defending champion New South Wales won the toss on Thursday and decided to bat first in the domestic first-class Sheffield Shield...

FILE - In this July 30, 1984, file photo Alex Baumann of Canada celebrates after winning the 400 Meter Individual Medley Swimming event, setting a new World Record time of 4:17.41 at the Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Two-time Canadian Olympic gold medalist Baumann has been named chief executive of Swimming Australia, moving up from his current position as chief strategist at the sport's governing body Down Under. (AP Photo/Pete Leabo, File)
Former Canadian Olympic champion to lead Australian swimming

Apr. 14, 2021 07:22 PM EDT

Huston, Zeuner head US national skateboarding team

Apr. 14, 2021 07:19 PM EDT
VISTA, Calif. (AP) — Nyjah Huston and teenager Brighton Zeuner head the 2021 USA Skateboarding National Team announced Wednesday. A total...

A model displays the Olympic uniforms for Russian athletes in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, April 14, 2021. Russia presents its Olympic kit for the Tokyo Games, which shouldn't depict any symbols of the country. Russian athletes will compete at the Tokyo Olympics as neutral after the Court of Arbitration for Sport last December banned Russia from using its name, flag and anthem at any world championships for the next two years because of state-backed doping. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
Russia's flag banned but national colors on Olympic uniforms

Apr. 14, 2021 07:18 PM EDT

FILE - Boxers Claressa Shields speaks during a news conference ahead of a women's super welterweight title fight against Eve Dicaire in Flint, Mich., in this Wednesday, March 3, 2021, file photo. Two-time Olympic boxing gold medalist Claressa Shields has a date and an opponent for her mixed martial arts debut with the Professional Fighters League. Shields will fight Brittney Elkin on June 10, the promotion told The Associated Press on Wednesday, April 14, 2021. (Jake May/The Flint Journal via AP, File)
Claressa Shields to make MMA debut with PFL on June 10

By Greg Beacham Apr. 14, 2021 11:03 AM EDT

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Tokyo 2021 Schedule *Medal event
  • Gymnastics Rhythmic Individual All-Around Qualification Dec. 31 7:00 p.m. EST
  • Gymnastics Rhythmic Individual All-Around Final Dec. 31 7:00 p.m. EST
  • Gymnastics Rhythmic Group All-Around Qualification Dec. 31 7:00 p.m. EST
  • Gymnastics Rhythmic Group All-Around Final Dec. 31 7:00 p.m. EST
  • Weightlifting Women's 48kg All Groups Dec. 31 7:00 p.m. EST
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