Elections

FILE - Lamine Diack adjusts his headphones during a joint IOC and IAAF news conference on the site of the World Athletic Championships in Beijing on Aug. 21, 2015. Lamine Diack, the controversial former president of the International Athletics Federation, has died, his family said Friday, Dec. 3, 2021. He was 88. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

Lamine Diack, ex IAAF chief convicted of corruption, dies

By Babacar Dione And Graham Dunbar Dec. 03, 2021 05:19 AM EST

Chin, Korn, Brennan elected to Figure Skating Hall of Fame

Dec. 01, 2021 02:27 PM EST
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Two-time world bronze medalist Tiffany Chin, Miami (Ohio) University synchronized skating coach Vicki Korn, and two-time Olympic...

Watanabe re-elected as international gymnastics president

Nov. 06, 2021 06:04 AM EDT
ANTALYA, Turkey (AP) — Morinari Watanabe was re-elected to a new three-year term as president of the International Gymnastics Federation on Saturday after...

FILE - This Aug. 12, 2008, file photo shows United States' relay swimmer Klete Keller at the Beijing 2008 Olympics. The five-time Olympic medalist pleaded guilty on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021, to a felony charge for storming the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot. Keller faces 21 to 27 months in prison for his guilty plea to obstruction of an official proceeding. (AP Photo/Thomas Kienzle, File)

Olympic swimmer who stormed Capitol pleads guilty to felony

Sep. 29, 2021 06:35 PM EDT

French hockey official Luc Tardif elected IIHF president

Sep. 25, 2021 05:45 AM EDT
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — French official Luc Tardif was elected president of the International Ice Hockey Federation on Saturday ahead of the return of...

Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah, center, arrives at a Geneva's courthouse ahead of the verdict for a trial for forgery in connection with arbitration, in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, Sept. 10, 2021. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

Olympic power broker Sheikh Ahmad found guilty of forgery

By Graham Dunbar Sep. 10, 2021 06:29 AM EDT

Ahmed Hafnaoui, of Tunisia, poses with his gold medal after winning final of the men's 400-meter freestyle at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, July 25, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Swimming federation to splash millions on African strategy

By Graham Dunbar Aug. 07, 2021 09:30 AM EDT

FILE - In this June 1, 2021, file photo, Paris 2024 president, and three-time Olympic champion, Tony Estanguet poses for a photo outside Paris. The 2024 Paris Olympics emerges fully on Sunday, Aug. 8 from its unexpected extra year in the shadows with a formal handover from Tokyo. (AP Photo/Nicolas Garriga, File)

Paris Olympics moves up with two presidents on center stage

By Graham Dunbar Aug. 05, 2021 06:29 AM EDT

FILE - In this July 13, 2021, file photo, a delivery man pushes a cart full of packages as he passes by a business with Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics posters displayed on the windows in Tokyo. How are we to judge the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics when they wrap up in two weeks? It's a straightforward question but it's difficult to answer. That's because there are many interests involved. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

Tokyo Olympics: A success? A failure? And how to judge?

By Stephen Wade Jul. 26, 2021 02:00 PM EDT

Japan's Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Toshihiro Nikai speaks at a news conference on the Tokyo metropolitan assembly election day in Tokyo on Sunday, July 4, 2021. Voters in Japan's capital are electing the Tokyo city assembly amid worries about health risks during the Olympics, opening in three weeks, as coronavirus cases continue to rise. (Kyodo News via AP)

Tokyo assembly split after vote amid pandemic Olympics fears

By Yuri Kageyama Jul. 03, 2021 10:55 PM EDT

Billionaire Eliasch elected to lead world ski federation

By Graham Dunbar Jun. 04, 2021 11:47 AM EDT

FILE - In this file photo dated Sunday, Jan. 31, 2016, First Vice President of the International Swimming Federation, FINA, Husain Al Musallam, during the FINA World Aquatics Gala in Budapest, Hungary. A new president is taking over swimming’s governing body with the same FIFA bribery case casting a shadow on him for the past four years, Husain al-Musallam is the only candidate to lead the Switzerland-based FINA at an election meeting Saturday June 5, 2021. (Attila Kovacs/MTI FILE via AP)

Swimming federation to elect leader in shadow of FIFA case

By Graham Dunbar Jun. 04, 2021 07:53 AM EDT

4 candidates Friday in rare election to lead world ski body

By Graham Dunbar Jun. 03, 2021 04:22 PM EDT
GENEVA (AP) — An open presidential election with several strong, first-time candidates is unusual for an international sports body. It's...

FILE - In this file photo dated Monday, Feb. 3, 2014, Sarah Lewis, Secretary General and Gian Franco Kasper, President of the FIS, the International Ski Federation, right, visit the finish area of the Aline ski course ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. Lewis has declared herself a candidate on Tuesday April 6, 2021, to become the first woman president of the International Ski Federation.(AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati, FILE)

Lewis running to lead the ski federation that fired her

By Graham Dunbar Apr. 06, 2021 05:32 AM EDT

Thomas Bach re-elected as president of International Olympic Committee until 2025

Mar. 10, 2021 10:04 AM EST
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Thomas Bach re-elected as president of International Olympic Committee until 2025. ...

Viktor Lukashenko, an oldest son of the Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, attends the Belarusian Olympic Committee session in Minsk, Belarus, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021. Viktor Lukashenko, who advises his father on national security, was previously the national Olympic body's vice president under his father, whose disputed victory in state elections last August led to ongoing protests in the former Soviet republic. The Belarusian Olympic Committee elected the son of President Alexander Lukashenko as leader on Friday, despite both men being suspended by the IOC and barred from the Tokyo Games. (Andrei Stasevich/BelTA Pool Photo via AP)

IOC denounces Belarus Olympic election of Lukashenko's son

Mar. 08, 2021 12:45 PM EST

FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018 file photo, Sheikh Ahmad al Fahad al Sabah, president of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) delivers a speech during the ANOC general assembly in Tokyo. A sports court says on Monday, Jan. 25, 2021 an election for an Asian woman soccer official to join the FIFA Council was improperly influenced by Olympic powerbroker Sheikh Ahmad of Kuwait. Sheikh Ahmad gave up his own FIFA Council seat in 2017 after being implicated in vote-buying by United States federal prosecutors. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, file)

Court rules on sheikh's improper influence in FIFA seat vote

By Graham Dunbar Jan. 25, 2021 11:34 AM EST

General Secretary of the Russian Boxing Federation, member of the Executive Committee of the International Boxing Association (AIBA) Umar Kremlev listens to a journalist's question during a news conference in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. Kremlev announced on Tuesday that he would be running for the presidency of the International Boxing Association (AIBA) in its upcoming elections. Kremlev made the announcement to journalists in Moscow and said he made the decision to run because of his "pain" in what he saw as the association's deterioration. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Russia's Kremlev defies Olympic concern to win boxing vote

By Graham Dunbar Dec. 12, 2020 10:40 AM EST

Sorenstam elected president of International Golf Federation

Dec. 03, 2020 04:01 PM EST
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Annika Sorenstam was elected president of the International Golf Federation on Thursday, replacing the outgoing Peter Dawson. ...