Law and order

FILE - Former gymnast Rachael Denhollander speaks about Larry Nassar in Lansing, Mich., Nov. 22, 2017. The legal wrangling between USA Gymnastics and the victims of sexual abuse by Nassar, among others, is over. A federal bankruptcy court in Indianapolis on Monday, Dec. 13, 2021, confirmed a $380 million settlement between USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee and the hundreds of victims, ending one aspect of the fallout of the largest sexual abuse scandal in the history of the U.S. Olympic movement. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

USA Gymnastics, USOPC reach $380M settlement with victims

By Will Graves Dec. 13, 2021 03:57 PM EST

FILE - France's Yannick Agnel celebrates after winning the gold medal in the Men's 200m freestyle final at the FINA Swimming World Championships in Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday, July 30, 2013. More details have emerged over an investigation into the alleged rape of an underage girl by two-time Olympic swimming champion Yannick Agnel of France, who was arrested last week in Paris. Agnel was handed preliminary charges as part of the investigation after being sent to Mulhouse, eastern France. On Monday Dec.13, 2021, Mulhouse prosecutor said the events allegedly took place in 2016 in several locations including Spain, Thailand and Brazil.(AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)

Spain Swimming Worlds

Dec. 13, 2021 10:12 AM EST

Olympic swimming champion Agnel denies coercion in rape case

Dec. 13, 2021 10:09 AM EST

Former Olympic champ Agnel in custody in rape investigation

Dec. 09, 2021 11:46 AM EST
PARIS (AP) — Two-time Olympic swimming champion Yannick Agnel of France was arrested Thursday as part of an investigation into the rape of an underage girl,...

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

FILE - President of Brazil's Olympic Committee Carlos Arthur Nuzman, left, and International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach, right, visit Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Jan. 22, 2014. Nuzman, the head of the Brazilian Olympic Committee for more than two decades, was sentenced to 30 years and 11 months in jail for allegedly buying votes for Rio de Janeiro to host the 2016 Olympics. The ruling by Judge Marcelo Bretas became public Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

Former Brazil Olympic boss sentenced to jail for corruption

By Mauricio Savarese Nov. 25, 2021 10:03 PM EST

FILE - In this June 4, 2012, file photo, former assistant United States Attorney Reid Schar speaks during an interview in Chicago. The Chicago Blackhawks are holding a briefing Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021, to discuss the findings of an investigation into allegations that an assistant coach sexually assaulted a player in 2010. Team owner Rocky Wirtz, CEO Danny Wirtz and former federal prosecutor Reid Schar, who ran the investigation, are scheduled to speak. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

Blackhawks GM resigns, team fined after sexual assault probe

By Jay Cohen And Stephen Whyno Oct. 26, 2021 06:09 PM EDT

FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2020, file photo, Florida Panthers head coach and former Chicago Blackhawks coach, Joel Quenneville, responds to a question during his first visit back to Chicago as a head coach before an NHL hockey game between the Blackhawks and Panthers. The Blackhawks are holding a briefing Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021, to discuss the findings of an investigation into allegations that an assistant coach sexually assaulted a player in 2010. The Blackhawks pledged to release the findings of the investigation, which general manager Stan Bowman, former coach Quenneville and others who were in the organization at the time agreed to cooperate with. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Bowman out as GM of US men's Olympic hockey team

By Jay Cohen And Stephen Whyno Oct. 26, 2021 05:54 PM EDT

Protesters raise a Tibetan flag and a banner from scaffolding at the Acropolis hill, in Athens, Greece, Sunday, Oct. 17, 2021. Three people attempted to hang a banner from the Acropolis in Athens Sunday morning in protest at the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics but were arrested before completing their mission. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

2 arrested in Athens for protesting Beijing Olympics

By Demetris Nellas Oct. 17, 2021 04:38 AM EDT

FILE - In this Monday, Aug. 2, 2021 file photo, Kenya's Hellen Obiri, center, and Agnes Tirop, right, compete in the women's 5,000-meters final at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Kenyan runner Agnes Tirop, a two-time world championships bronze medalist, has been found dead at her home in Iten in western Kenya, the country's track federation said Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File)

Husband arrested in killing of Olympic runner Agnes Tirop

By Mutwiri Mutuota And Gerald Imray Oct. 15, 2021 04:47 AM EDT

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

Ex-Kenya sports minister guilty of corruption pays $32K fine

By Mutwiri Mutuota Sep. 16, 2021 02:09 PM EDT
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's former sports minister paid a fine of just over $32,000 on Thursday to avoid a six-year jail sentence after being convicted of...

United States gymnasts from left, Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney, Maggie Nichols, and Aly Raisman testify during a Senate Judiciary hearing about the Inspector General's report on the FBI's handling of the Larry Nassar investigation on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021, in Washington. Nassar was charged in 2016 with federal child pornography offenses and sexual abuse charges in Michigan. He is now serving decades in prison after hundreds of girls and women said he sexually abused them under the guise of medical treatment when he worked for Michigan State and Indiana-based USA Gymnastics, which trains Olympians. (Graeme Jennings/Pool via AP)

Biles: FBI turned 'blind eye' to reports of gymnasts' abuse

By Mary Clare Jalonick, Will Graves And Michael Balsamo Sep. 15, 2021 12:48 PM EDT

Ex-Kenya sports minister guilty in Olympic corruption case

Sep. 15, 2021 11:47 AM EDT
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's former sports minister was convicted Wednesday of corruption and abuse of office relating to the misuse of more than $800,000...

Olympic official Sheikh Ahmad of Kuwait found guilty of forgery in Geneva court

Sep. 10, 2021 08:49 AM EDT
GENEVA (AP) — Olympic official Sheikh Ahmad of Kuwait found guilty of forgery in Geneva court. ...

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

Belgian police to investigate possible basketball fraud case

Sep. 07, 2021 11:50 AM EDT
BRUSSELS (AP) — The Belgian basketball federation has asked the country's federal police to investigate a possible fraud case related to the organization of...

Roglic on brink of 3rd straight Spanish Vuelta title

Sep. 04, 2021 11:59 AM EDT
MOS, Spain (AP) — Primoz Roglic has only the decisive stage’s time trial left to win his third consecutive Spanish Vuelta title after finishing the rugged 20th...