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British sprinter Chijindu Ujah gets 22-month doping ban
Oct. 10, 2022 07:20 AM EDT
LONDON (AP) — British sprinter Chijindu Ujah was banned for 22 months on Monday after testing positive for two prohibited substances during the Tokyo Olympics last...
Seattle Kraken's Matty Beniers (10) celebrates a goal against the Edmonton Oilers during the second period of an NHL hockey preseason game Friday, Oct. 7, 2022, in Edmonton, Alberta. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP)
Not rushing top prospects to NHL is becoming a popular path
By Stephen Whyno
Oct. 09, 2022 02:44 PM EDT
FILE - Cleveland Browns cornerback Joe Haden practices before an NFL football game against the New York Jets, on Oct. 30, 2016, in Cleveland. Haden has a formal NFL retirement date. The three-time Pro Bowl cornerback told The Associated Press he is planning to sign a one-day contract with Cleveland on Oct. 30 2022, so he can retire as a member of the team that drafted him in the first round in 2007. The Browns will honor the 33-year-old Haden a day later during their home game against Cincinnati on Monday Night Football. (AP Photo/Ron Schwane, File)
Haden enters Florida's Hall of Fame, plans NFL retirement
By Mark Long
Oct. 08, 2022 12:48 PM EDT
FILE - In this Aug. 11, 1936, file photo, America's Jesse Owens, center, salutes during the presentation of his gold medal for the long jump on, alongside silver medalist Luz Long, right, of Germany, and bronze medalist Naoto Tajima, of Japan, during the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. Long's family has decided to auction his silver medal and other collectibles from his career, which was cut short when he was killed in World War II in 1943. (AP Photo/File)
Jesse Owens friend Luz Long's silver medal up for auction
By Eddie Pells
Oct. 06, 2022 04:46 PM EDT
Joel Embiid sits for an ice bath after practice on the first day of Philadelphia 76ers NBA basketball training camp at the McAlister Field House on the campus of The Citadel in Charleston, S.C. on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022. (Heather Khalifa/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)
France hoping Embiid will join team for 2024 Paris Olympics
By Tim Reynolds
Oct. 06, 2022 03:40 PM EDT
‘Unreal and surreal’: Skiers slam Asian Winter Games host
By Eric Willemsen
Oct. 06, 2022 01:14 PM EDT
Leading World Cup skiers on Thursday questioned the decision to award a yet-to-be-built resort in Saudi Arabia the hosting rights of the 2029 Asian Winter Games,...
France ski world blasts Asian Winter Games in Saudi Arabia
Oct. 06, 2022 06:26 AM EDT
PARIS (AP) — The French ski federation, mayors from mountain resorts and ski instructors lashed out Thursday at the decision to award the 2029 Asian Winter Games to...
Paris 2024 Games' chief Tony Estanguet speaks during a media conference at the City Hall in Paris, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. The marathon will start from Paris City Hall and wind past famed landmarks, including the Eiffel Tower, before leaving the capital and beginning its upward wind to Versailles, the former town of kings with its spectacular palace, to the southwest. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
Marathon course for Paris Olympics announced; lots of uphill
By John Leicester
Oct. 05, 2022 01:12 PM EDT
This photo provided by the Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne shows Yasser Hefny competing at a test event in Ankara, Turkey on June 28, 2022. As it stands now, modern pentathlon — a sport in the Olympics for more than 100 years — would be off the program in its current form after the 2024 Paris Games. (Augustas Didzgalvis/UIPM via AP)
Olympic pentathlon eyes 'Ninja Warrior' courses for survival
By Pat Graham
Oct. 05, 2022 01:42 AM EDT
Saudi Arabia to host Asian Winter Games in new ski resort
Oct. 04, 2022 05:38 AM EDT
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Saudi Arabia will host the Asian Winter Games in 2029 in mountains near the $500 billion futuristic city project Neom. The...
Kadokawa Corp. Chairman Tsuguhiko Kadokawa speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Sept. 5, 2022. Kadokawa was charged Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022 with bribing a former Tokyo Olympics organizing committee member. (Kyodo News via AP)
Publishing executive charged in Tokyo Olympic bribes scandal
By Yuri Kageyama
Oct. 04, 2022 03:36 AM EDT
Head of Paris 2024 Olympics Tony Estanguet, center left, President of Greater Paris Metropolis Patrick Ollier, center right, head of the Paris Ile-de-France region, Valerie Pecresse, right, and head of the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF), Brigitte Henriques, left, attend a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron and the Olympics and Paralympics Council, at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. (Benoit Tessier/ Pool Photo via AP)
French NOC boss starts lawsuit over 'psychological violence'
Oct. 03, 2022 11:22 AM EDT
United States' coach Cheryl Reeve instructs from the sideline during their gold medal game against China at the women's Basketball World Cup in Sydney, Australia, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
US women's basketball dominates on international stage
By Doug Feinberg
Oct. 01, 2022 02:02 PM EDT
Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee, left, greets Pope Francis during an audience the Pontiff granted to the participants of the "Sports for all" meeting at the Vatican, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
IOC's Bach eyes return to sports for anti-war Russians
By Graham Dunbar
Sep. 30, 2022 11:34 AM EDT
Far-Right party Brothers of Italy's leader Giorgia Meloni speaks to the media at her party's electoral headquarters in Rome, early Monday, Sept. 26, 2022. Italians voted in a national election that might yield the nation's first government led by the far right since the end of World War II. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
IOC president Bach meets with Meloni over 2026 concerns
Sep. 29, 2022 01:18 PM EDT
Today in Sports History: Expos to Move to Washington D.C.
By The Associated Press
Sep. 28, 2022 10:02 AM EDT
Sept. 29 1923 — Gene Sarazen beats Walter Hagen 1 up to capture the PGA championship. 1941 — Joe Louis knocks out Lou Nova in the sixth...
Australia's Lauren Jackson poses for a selfie with a young fan following their win over Japan at the women's Basketball World Cup in Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)
Lauren Jackson, Aussie fans enjoying her World Cup finale
By Doug Feinberg
Sep. 28, 2022 08:46 AM EDT
FILE - Haruyuki Takahashi, executive board member of the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games attends the Tokyo 2020 Executive Board Meeting in Tokyo on March 30, 2020. Criminal allegations against a former Tokyo Olympic organizing committee board member widened Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022, as Japanese prosecutors “re-arrested” Takahashi in suspected payments from a publisher that became a sponsor for the Games. (Issei Kato/Pool Photo via AP, File)
Tokyo Olympics bribery arrests widens to third Japan sponsor
By Yuri Kageyama
Sep. 27, 2022 04:42 AM EDT
China's Han Xu signs her autograph for fans following during their game at the women's Basketball World Cup against Puerto Rico in Sydney, Australia, Monday, Sept. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)
China eyeing a medal for first time in 28 years
By Doug Feinberg
Sep. 26, 2022 10:36 AM EDT
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and General Secretary of the Russian Boxing Federation, member of the Executive Committee of the International Boxing Association (AIBA) Umar Kremlev attend an opening of the new International Sambo and Boxing centre at the Luzhniki Sports Complex in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
Boxing body won't hold new election, damaging Olympic hopes
By Greg Beacham
Sep. 25, 2022 04:50 PM EDT