Paralympic Games

Dionne Koller, co-chair of the Commission on the State of U.S. Olympics & Paralympics, speaks at a conference in Colorado Springs, Colo., on May 18, 2023. Koller says the commission has begun work on a report that will be released next spring and could include proposals for radical changes in the way the Olympics work in America. (AP Photo/Eddie Pells)

Olympic reform panel starts work: 'Opportunity to think big'

By Eddie Pells May. 18, 2023 04:46 PM EDT

Russia, Belarus have Paralympic membership suspension overturned, but athletes still barred

May. 12, 2023 07:32 AM EDT
BONN, Germany (AP) — Russia and its ally Belarus have had their suspension from membership of the International Paralympic Committee overturned on appeal but their...

No quick Paralympics decision on Russia, Belarus athletes

Mar. 30, 2023 06:43 AM EDT
BONN, Germany (AP) — The International Paralympic Committee has no plans to review the status of Russia for months after the IOC laid out its preferred formula for...

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 02:30 PM EDT

FILE - Visitors watch a simulation of the Parade of Nations exhibit during the opening day of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum in Colorado Springs Colo., on July 30, 2020. More than 27 months since it was greenlighted by Congress, the panel established to investigate the inner workings of the U.S. Olympic structure has yet to conduct a formal interview because of bureaucratic red tape and slow action from the same lawmakers who had expressed a pressing need for better oversight. The commission was created as part of the bipartisan “Empowering Olympic, Paralympic, and Amateur Athletes Act of 2020,” which itself came out of an 18-month investigation into how the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee and the sports organizations it oversees mishandled sex-abuse cases in gymnastics and other sports. (Chancey Bush/The Gazette via AP, File)

Probe into US Olympic failings stunted by red tape in DC

By Eddie Pells Feb. 08, 2023 12:54 PM EST

Hook appointed CEO of 2032 Olympic organizing committee

Dec. 13, 2022 03:36 AM EST
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — American executive Cindy Hook has been appointed as the inaugural CEO of the organizing committee for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic...

FILE - Mascots of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, right, and Paralympics Games, a Phrygian cap, jump during a preview in Saint Denis, outside Paris, on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022. Izzy, the much-hated blob that represented the 1996 Atlanta Games has been supplanted by the mascot for the Paris Olympics — a Phrygian cap. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)

Column: Izzy's long run as worst Olympic mascot is over

By Paul Newberry Nov. 15, 2022 06:24 PM EST

Mascots of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, right, and Paralympics Games, a Phrygian cap, jump during a preview in Saint Denis, outside Paris, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022. The soft bright red cap, also known as a liberty cap, is an updated version of a conical hat worn in antiquity in places such as Persia, the Balkans, Thrace, Dacia and Phrygia, where the name originates, in modern day Turkey. It later became a symbol of the pursuit of liberty in the French Revolution and is still worn by the figure of Marianne, the national personification of France since that time. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Paris 2024 Olympics, Paralympics mascot is a smiling hat

By Masha Macpherson And Thomas Adamson Nov. 14, 2022 05:51 AM EST

FILE- Visitors walk towards planted fields on the Champs Elysees near the "Place de la Concorde" (Concorde's square) monument in Paris, Sunday, May 23, 2010. Some 4,400 of the world's best athletes, parading down France's most famous boulevard with their prosthetic limbs, mobility chairs and stories of adversities overcome, to a grand celebration of their prowess and sports on the Paris square where the French revolutionaries of 1789 chopped off heads. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon, File)

The 2024 Paralympics in Paris won't open in stadium

By John Leicester Oct. 20, 2022 07:28 AM EDT

FILE - A woman passes by the Olympic rings at the City Hall in Paris, Monday, July 25, 2022. Paris Olympic organizers appointed prize-winning French theater director Thomas Jolly on Wednesday Sept. 21, 2022 to direct the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2024 Games and Paralympics. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly, File)

Paris taps French stage director Jolly for Olympic opening

Sep. 21, 2022 10:36 AM EDT

LA28 Chairperson Casey Wasserman, right, speaks during a news conference as he is joined by Nicole Hoevertsz, IOC member and LA28 coordination commission chair, Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022, in Los Angeles, updating their progress in planning the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics games. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

IOC committee visits sites for 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles

By Beth Harris Sep. 15, 2022 06:18 PM EDT

Table tennis CEO Virginia Sung gets board spot on USOPC

By Eddie Pells Aug. 10, 2022 10:37 PM EDT
DENVER (AP) — USA Table Tennis CEO Virginia Sung won an election to serve on the board of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee on Wednesday. She will take over...

USOPC chooses triathlon exec Rocky Harris as sports leader

By Eddie Pells Aug. 02, 2022 01:00 PM EDT
DENVER (AP) — The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee hired USA Triathlon and onetime Arizona State athletics executive Rocky Harris on Tuesday to head its sports...

Los Angeles Olympics to begin July 14, 2028

Jul. 18, 2022 07:12 PM EDT
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The 2028 Los Angeles Olympics kicked off a six-year countdown on Monday with the announcement of the dates for the Games’ return to the city. ...

US Olympic leaders tab former LA28 CEO Gene Sykes as chair

By Eddie Pells Jul. 08, 2022 07:59 PM EDT
The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee chose Gene Sykes as its next chairman Friday, elevating the former CEO of the Los Angeles 2028 organizing committee to a...