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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 March 3, 2020, file photo, the New National Stadium, a venue for the opening and closing ceremonies at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, is seen from Shibuya Sky observation deck in Tokyo. Organizers and the International Olympic Committee are pushing on despite COVID-19 risks, myriad scandals, and overwhelming public opposition in Japan to holding the games. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

100 Days: Tokyo Olympics marked by footnotes and asterisks

By Stephen Wade Apr. 13, 2021 09:35 PM EDT

An Olympic torch relay runner, center, hands over the flame of the torch to the next runner during the first day of the Osaka round at a former Expo site in Suita, north of Osaka, western Japan, Tuesday, April 13, 2021. The Tokyo 2020 Olympic kick-off event which was rescheduled due to the coronavirus outbreak was yet rearranged to hold at the former Expo park, instead of public streets, to close off the audience from the even, following the mayor's decision as Osaka has had sharp increases in daily cases since early March. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

Olympic torch runs through empty park in Osaka as cases rise

By Stephen Wade Apr. 13, 2021 02:25 AM EDT

FILE - John Roethlisberger, of Falcon Heights, Minn., hugs his dad Fred after his final event in the men's 2000 U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Trials in Boston, in this Saturday, Aug. 19, 2000, file photo. Roethlisberger was chosen for the U.S. Olympic team. The cutback in NCAA athletic programs due to the COVID-19 pandemic is being felt acutely in men's gymnastics. For decades Division I programs have produced an overwhelming majority of the US Olympic team. The number of Division I programs, however, is shrinking. The University of Minnesota and the University of Iowa will stop offering it as a scholarship sport at the end of the month. That will drop the number of Division I schools to 11. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

Olympic Gold: Men's gymnastics struggling to survive

By Will Graves Apr. 09, 2021 12:04 PM EDT

Olympic gold: 'Keep Stanford Wrestling' aims to save program

By Pat Graham Apr. 08, 2021 06:53 PM EDT

A protester from the Uyghur community living in Turkey holds up an anti-China placard during a protest against the visit of China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi to Turkey, in Istanbul, Thursday, March 25, 2021. Hundreds protested against the Chinese official visit and what they allege is oppression by the Chinese government to Muslim Uyghurs in the far-western Xinjiang province. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

EXPLAINER: Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and some options

By Stephen Wade Apr. 07, 2021 02:11 AM EDT

Graphic looks at the college sports that have been cut by school due to the pandemic; 2c x 5 inches

Olympic gold: Colleges, Team USA search for new ways to win

By Eddie Pells Apr. 06, 2021 12:47 PM EDT

Scioscia to manage US in Olympic baseball qualifying

By Ronald Blum Apr. 06, 2021 11:51 AM EDT
Mike Scioscia has the tough task of reaching the Olympic baseball tournament with a U.S. roster likely to include players cut during spring training and...

FILE - In this Feb. 24, 2021, file photo, Jordan Larson participates in a volleyball workout at Fair Park Coliseum, in Dallas. Larson was a player and coach while winning the inaugural championship of a unique women's professional indoor volleyball league focused on individual stats over team results. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

U.S. women's pro volleyball league looks ahead to 2nd year

By Schuyler Dixon Mar. 31, 2021 05:05 PM EDT

FILE - Minnesota Wild NHL hockey team owner Craig Leipold, left, laughs with new team general manager Bill Guerin at an introductory press conference in St. Paul, Minn., in this Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019, file photo. USA Hockey announced Wednesday, March 31, 2021, that Guerin will be the assistant general manager of the 2022 U.S. Olympic Men's ice hockey team.(David Joles/Star Tribune via AP, File)

Blackhawks' Bowman named as GM of 2022 US Olympic men's team

By John Wawrow Mar. 31, 2021 04:58 PM EDT

FILE - Commissioner Roger Goodell gestures during the NFL Honors ceremony as part of Super Bowl 55 in Tampa, Fla., in this Friday, Feb. 5, 2021, file photo. The NFL is increasing the regular season to 17 games, as expected, and reducing the preseason to three games. Team owners on Tuesday, March 30, 2021, approved the 17th game, marking the first time in 43 years the regular season has been increased.(AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

NFL owners approve 17-game regular season, 3 preseason games

By Barry Wilner Mar. 30, 2021 03:22 PM EDT

United States' players react at the bench during a Concacaf Men's Olympic qualifying championship semi-final soccer match against Honduras in Guadalajara, Mexico, Sunday, March 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

US men lose to Honduras, miss 3rd straight Olympic soccer

By The Associated Press Mar. 28, 2021 08:08 PM EDT

FILE - In this Feb. 22, 2018, file photo, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky speaks during an event in San Francisco. Airbnb Inc. is being asked to drop its sponsorship connections to 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics by a coalition of 150 human-rights campaigners. The coalition is headed by groups that oppose rights violations in China including widely reported genocide against Muslim Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region. An open letter sent on Tuesday, March 23, 2021 to Chesky argues that Airbnb is trying to drive tourism in China at the expense of Uyghurs and Tibetans who cannot travel freely in the country. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Airbnb asked to drop Olympic ties over China rights issues

By Stephen Wade Mar. 22, 2021 10:46 PM EDT

Seiko Hashimoto, president of the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, greets after a press conference Friday, March 19, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, Pool)

Tokyo Olympics ready to announce ban on fans from abroad

By Stephen Wade Mar. 19, 2021 06:11 AM EDT

FILE - Buffalo Sabres head coach Ralph Kruege looks on during the third period of an NHL hockey game against the Pittsburgh Penguins in Buffalo, N.Y., in this Saturday, March 13, 2021, file photo. The Sabres fired coach Ralph Krueger on Wednesday, March 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Jeffrey T. Barnes, File)

Sabres fire coach Krueger while in midst of 12-game skid

By John Wawrow Mar. 17, 2021 09:09 AM EDT

FILE - Aliphine Tuliamuk crosses the finish line to win the women's U.S. Olympic marathon trials, Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020, in Atlanta. When the Tokyo Summer Games were postponed, U.S. Olympic marathon trials champion Aliphine Tuliamuk decided with her fiance last year to have a baby instead of waiting. (AP Photo/John Amis, File)

With sports paused, life altered, athletes make do, make new

By Dave Campbell Mar. 14, 2021 04:47 PM EDT

Soto, Cardoso, Llanez, Saucedo head US Olympic soccer roster

By Ronald Blum Mar. 11, 2021 07:30 PM EST
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. coach Jason Kreis learned only Thursday that fans will be allowed at 25% capacity to attend Olympic men's soccer qualifying in Guadalajara...