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European state broadcasters back in business for Olympics

Jan. 16, 2023 07:50 AM EST

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — European state broadcasters were brought back into the heart of Olympic business on Monday when the IOC announced a rights deal through...

First placed Kaillie Humphries from the USA speeds down the track during the women's monobob Bobsleigh World Cup race in Altenberg, Germany, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023. (Sebastian Kahnert/dpa via AP)

Kaillie Humphries of US wins 100th major bobsled medal

Jan. 14, 2023 11:07 AM EST

2024 US Olympic diving trials coming to Knoxville, Tennessee

Jan. 12, 2023 05:42 PM EST

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The U.S. diving trials for the 2024 Olympics will be held in Knoxville, Tennessee. USA Diving awarded the competition to the...

Portland Thorns promote assistant Mike Norris to head coach

By Anne M. Peterson

Jan. 09, 2023 05:22 PM EST

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland Thorns assistant Mike Norris has been promoted to head coach of the National Women's Soccer League club to replace Rhian Wilkinson,...

United States' Mikaela Shiffrin is overcome by emotion as she stands on the podium after winning an alpine ski, women's World Cup giant slalom race, in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. Shiffrin matched Lindsey Vonn's women's World Cup skiing record with her 82nd win Sunday. (AP Photo/Giovanni Auletta)

Shiffrin shows her emotions after matching Vonn's record

By Andrew Dampf

Jan. 08, 2023 12:17 PM EST

Norway's Lucas Braathen, right, winner of an alpine ski, men's World Cup slalom race, celebrates with second-placed Norway's Atle Lie McGrath, in Adelboden, Switzerland, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Gabriele Facciotti)

Braathen beats boyhood buddy McGrath to win World Cup slalom

Jan. 08, 2023 11:57 AM EST

A aerial view of the race track before the first run of the men's giant slalom race at the Alpine Skiing FIS Ski World Cup in Adelboden, Switzerland, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP)

Swiss ace Marco Odermatt wins World Cup giant slalom

Jan. 07, 2023 08:52 AM EST

United States' Mikaela Shiffrin speeds down the course during an alpine ski, women's World Cup slalom race, in Zagreb, Croatia, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Giovanni Auletta)

Shiffrin focusing on the process as she nears Vonn's record

By Andrew Dampf

Jan. 06, 2023 06:02 AM EST

Luc Tardif, IIHF President, answers questions from reporters during a press conference at the IIHF World Junior Hockey Championships in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. (Darren Calabrese/The Canadian Press via AP)

IIHF would like NHL 2026 Olympics decision by spring 2024

By Stephen Whyno

Jan. 05, 2023 04:44 PM EST

FILE - German alpine ski racer Rosi Mittermaier shows two gold medals and one silver, she won at the Winter Olympic Games at the Olympic village in Innsbruck, Austria, February 15, 1976. Rosi Mittermaier, who won downhill and slalom gold medals at the 1976 Winter Olympics and narrowly missed a sweep of all three women's Alpine skiing events at the Games, has died. She was 72. (AP Photo/Michel Lipchitz, File)

Olympic skiing champion Rosi Mittermaier dies at 72

Jan. 05, 2023 08:40 AM EST

Norway's Henrik Kristoffersen speeds down the course during an alpine ski, men's World Cup slalom race, in Garmisch Partenkirchen, Germany, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati)

Norwegian skier Kristoffersen holds big lead in WCup slalom

Jan. 04, 2023 11:44 AM EST

Austria's Matthias Mayer, right, speaks to a member of the Austria team after a course inspection ahead of an alpine ski, men's World Cup Super G race, in Bormio, Italy, Thursday, Dec.29, 2022. Mayer, who won gold at three consecutive Olympics, announced his retirement with immediate effect Thursday. Mayer surprisingly made the announcement shortly before a men's World Cup super-G in an interview with Austrian TV after he returned from the course inspection and said he would not compete in the race. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati)

Austrian 3-time Olympic ski champion Matthias Mayer retires

Dec. 29, 2022 08:52 AM EST

FILE - Katie Ledecky, of the United States, competes in the women's 1500-meter freestyle at the FINA Swimming World Cup meet in Toronto, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022. The American swimmer turned in another stellar performance at the world championships, set a pair of world records, and capped 2022 as The Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year by a panel of 40 sports writers and editors from news outlets across the country. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

Katie Ledecky earns AP female athlete of year for 2nd time

By Paul Newberry

Dec. 28, 2022 09:28 AM EST

Germany's Stephan Leyhe soars through the air during the third stage of the 70th Four Hills ski jumping tournament in Bischofshofen, Austria, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

AP Photos: In 2022, sports brought every imaginable emotion

By The Associated Press

Dec. 23, 2022 04:00 PM EST

FILE - Lyu Xiaojun of China celebrates on the podium after winning the gold medal in the men's 81kg weightlifting event, at the 2020 Summer Olympics, July 31, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. Three-time Olympic weightlifting champion Lyu Xiaojun has tested positive in a doping case. The International Testing Agency says Lyu tested positive for the endurance boosting hormone EPO on Oct. 30, 2022 while he was training. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, file)

Three-time Olympic champion Lyu tests positive for doping

Dec. 22, 2022 02:14 PM EST

FILE - Italy's Giorgio Minisi and Lucrezia Ruggiero compete during the mixed duet technical final of the artistic swimming at the 19th FINA World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, on June 20, 2022. Men can compete in Olympic artistic swimming for the first time at the 2024 Paris Games, the World Aquatics governing body said Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Anna Szilagyi, File)

Men can compete in artistic swimming at Paris Olympics

Dec. 22, 2022 08:54 AM EST

FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2020, file photo, the Olympic rings are reinstalled after it was taken down for maintenance ahead of the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics in the Odaiba section in Tokyo. The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee is encouraging individual sports to consider “category qualifiers” — classified in some sports as “open” categories — to ensure transgender athletes will have events to participate in once they reach puberty. The USOPC finalized its two-page “position paper” at its board meeting earlier this month and released it Monday, Dec. 19, 2022, addressing a proposed path forward for transgender participation in sports. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

Audit finds Tokyo Olympic costs 20% higher than announced

By Stephen Wade

Dec. 22, 2022 05:02 AM EST

Tour de France start in 2024 to be staged in Italy

Dec. 21, 2022 05:00 PM EST

PARIS (AP) — Italy will host the start of the Tour de France for the first time in 2024. Race organizers confirmed on Wednesday that the “grand départ”...

FILE - Russia's Natalya Antyukh, right, powers ahead of United States' Lashinda Demus to win gold in the women's 400-meter hurdles final during the athletics in the Olympic Stadium at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012. Russian 400-meter hurdler Natalya Antyukh will lose her gold medal from the 2012 London Games due to doping, putting American Lashinda Demus in position to be named the champion more than a decade after the race. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa De Olza, File)

Russian hurdler stripped of 2012 Olympics gold for doping

Dec. 21, 2022 11:22 AM EST

Sapporo mayor says Tokyo bid-rigging hurt its Olympic bid