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FILE - Great Britain's Andrew Matthews, from left to right, Ben Simons, Toby Olubi and Lamin Deen celebrate after their second-place finish in a four-man World Cup Bobsleigh race in Whistler, British Columbia, in this Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017, file photo. British Bobsleigh and Skeleton announced Thursday, June 17, 2021, that the four-man team of Deen, Simons, Olubi and Matthews has been upgraded to the gold medal for a race that occurred Nov. 25, 2017 in Whistler, Canada. The Russian crew that beat them that day has since been disqualified. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP, File)
Britain upgraded to World Cup bobsled gold from 2017 race

By Tim Reynolds 3 hrs ago

FILE - Venezuela's Hernan Perez, right, is safe at first base as United States' Eddy Alvarez (2) misses the catch in the first inning during an Americas qualifying tournament baseball game in Port St. Lucie, Fla., in this Saturday, June 5, 2021, file photo. Alvarez, having won a silver in speed skating at Sochi in 2014, helped the U.S. reach the Olympic baseball tournament and could become only the third American to win medals at the summer and winter Games.(Crystal Vander Weit/TCPalm.com via AP, File)
Eddy Alvarez tries to add baseball medal to speedskating

By Ronald Blum Jun. 09, 2021 02:33 PM EDT

FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2014, file photo, a Russian skating fan holds the country's national flag over the Olympic rings before the start of the men's 10,000-meter speedskating race at Adler Arena Skating Center during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. World Athletics has declared 23 Russian track and field athletes eligible to compete under a neutral flag ahead of the Tokyo Olympics. Their national federation is under a doping suspension so Russians must apply for “authorized neutral athlete” status after their drug-testing records are vetted. High jumper Mikhail Akimenko and race walker Vasiliy Mizinov — both silver medalists from the 2019 world championships — were among the names on the list released by track’s governing body. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
Sochi Olympics

May. 22, 2021 08:33 AM EDT

US holding $2.93 million, still seeking reforms from WADA

By Eddie Pells May. 17, 2021 05:36 PM EDT
The U.S. government is holding on to nearly $3 million earmarked for the World Anti-Doping Agency, with plans to pay only if it sees “real progress and a path...

FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2020, file photo, United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee CEO Sarah Hirshland listens during a briefing with the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Los Angeles 2028 organizers in Beverly Hills, Calif. A boycott of next year's Beijing Olympics will not solve any geopolitical issues with China and will only serve to place athletes training for the games under a “cloud of uncertainty,” according to a letter, Hirshland, the head of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee, wrote to Congress on Thursday, May 13, 2021. Her letter specifically addressed those who believe a boycott of the Winter Games next February would serve as an effective diplomatic tool to protest China's alleged abuses toward Uyghurs, Tibetans and Hong Kong residents. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
USOPC to Congress: Beijing Olympic boycott not the solution

By Eddie Pells May. 13, 2021 03:01 PM EDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017 file photo, Alexander Zubkov, Olympic champion and President of the Russian Bobsleigh Federation, speaks to the media at a news conference in Moscow, Russia. Russia’s flagbearer at the 2014 Sochi Olympics opening ceremony lost his appeal Friday, Oct. 30, 2020 against being banned for doping in a state-backed program to win a gold medal. The Court of Arbitration for Sport said its judges upheld two-year bans imposed by bobsled’s governing body on four athletes including Alexander Zubkov. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, file)
Russian Olympic flagbearer loses appeal in Sochi doping case

Oct. 30, 2020 01:50 PM EDT

FILE - In this file photo dated Monday, Dec. 9, 2019, President-Elect of World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Witold Banka, left, President of World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Craig Reedie, center, and Director General of World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Olivier Niggli, right, arrive for a press conference after the WADA's extraordinary Executive Committee (ExCo) on the Russian doping data manipulation, in Lausanne, Switzerland. WADA announced a ban for Russia from international sporting events for four years. The Court of Arbitration for Sport judges will start on Monday Nov. 2, 2020, hearing four days of evidence and argument about allegations of a manipulated database from the Moscow testing laboratory. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone FILE via AP)
Russia's reputation, Olympic status on trial for doping

By Graham Dunbar Oct. 30, 2020 08:13 AM EDT

Russia's Ustyugov set to lose another Olympic biathlon gold

Oct. 27, 2020 08:55 AM EDT
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Evgeny Ustyugov is set to be stripped of a second Olympic biathlon gold medal after the Russian lost a doping case, the sport's...

FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2011, file photo, Mike Emrick speaks after being inducted into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame in Chicago. Hall of Fame hockey broadcaster Mike Emrick is retiring after a career of almost 50 years behind the microphone, including the past 15 as the voice of the NHL in the United States. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty, File)
Mike 'Doc' Emrick, beloved voice of hockey in US, retires

By Stephen Whyno Oct. 19, 2020 02:53 PM EDT

FILE - In this Sunday, March 9, 2014 file photo, Russia's Olga Zaitseva celebrates her third place in the women's 12.5km mass start at the biathlon World Cup competition in Pokljuka, Slovenia. Two-time Olympic biathlon champion Olga Zaitseva lost her appeal Thursday Sept. 24, 2020, against disqualification from the 2014 Sochi Olympics for her part in Russia’s state-backed doping program. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic, File)
Russian Olympic biathlon champion loses Sochi doping case

By Graham Dunbar Sep. 24, 2020 10:24 AM EDT

Russian doping whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov taken at an undisclosed location on Monday Aug. 3, 2020. Rodchenkov has spoken to The Associated Press from his hiding in the United States. Revealing his current identity is still too risky for the chemist turned whistleblower, even in a video interview from an undisclosed location. Rodchenkov says he has "physical threats to be assassinated." Rodchenkov was the brains behind the Duchess cocktail of anabolic steroids and cover-up that was turned Russia into a medal machine at the home Olympics in Sochi in 2014, topping the standings with 13 gold medals. (AP Photo)
AP Interview: Rodchenkov lives in fear after exposing doping

By Rob Harris Aug. 10, 2020 03:12 PM EDT

Miami Marlins' Eddy Alvarez watches a foul ball to right field during the fifth inning in the second game of a baseball doubleheader against the Baltimore Orioles, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020, in Baltimore. Among the Marlins' roster replacements following their coronavirus outbreak was infielder Alvarez, a 2014 Olympic silver medalist in speedskating. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Olympic skater Alvarez achieves another goal: his MLB debut

By Steven Wine Aug. 06, 2020 06:36 PM EDT