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Los Angeles Kings' Tobias Bjornfot (7) and Edmonton Oilers' Connor McDavid (97) battle for the puck during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Edmonton, Alberta, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP)
Quarantine concerns loom over NHL participation in Olympics
By The Associated Press
Dec. 14, 2021 05:52 PM EST
FILE - Bill Guerin addresses the media before his induction into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in Detroit, Monday, Dec. 2, 2013. Guerin called it a “bumpy road” upon taking over as the United States men’s Olympic hockey team some two months following Stan Bowman’s resignation in the wake of the Chicago Blackhawks’ sexual assault scandal. “Unfortunately, things turned out the way they did and we’re here today,” Guerin said Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021, during a USA Hockey Zoom conference call. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)
Wild's Guerin promoted to take over as US men's Olympic GM
By John Wawrow
Dec. 14, 2021 03:51 PM EST
Austrian leader: won't go to Beijing games, but no protest
Dec. 14, 2021 02:56 AM EST
BERLIN (AP) — Austria's leader says no high-ranking politicians from his country will attend the Beijing Winter Olympics, but he says that is entirely because of...
FILE - Demonstrators hold placards and flags during a demonstration outside the Chinese embassy in London on Dec. 9, 2021. The location of the Winter Olympics in Beijing is certain to draw global attention to acts of genocide against the Uyghur people committed by the Chinese government. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, File)
As Olympics open, Uyghurs set to take rights case to court
By Stephen Wade
Dec. 13, 2021 11:42 PM EST
CORRECTS CADDIE'S SURNAME - A girl holds a golf putter on the grounds of the Nusacquilombo cultural center where children are learning the basics from caddie Marcelo Modesto, in Cidade de Deus or City of God favela, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021. Modesto from one of Rio's poorest neighborhoods works at one of the seaside city's most exclusive golf courses, earning a comfortable living guiding wealthy patrons around the fairways and greens of the course. Now he is sharing his golf skills with kids from his favela. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
Rio favela seeks to improve kids' lives through golf
By Diarlei Rodrigues And Mauricio Savarese
Dec. 13, 2021 08:22 PM EST
FILE - Larry Nassar listens as Rachael Denhollander gives her victim impact statement, Feb. 2, 2018, in Eaton County Circuit Court in Charlotte, Mich. 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. (Matthew Dae Smith/Lansing State Journal via AP, File)
USA Gymnastics, USOPC reach $380M settlement with victims
By Will Graves
Dec. 13, 2021 05:33 PM EST
Shaun White, of United States, makes a qualifying run on the halfpipe Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, at the U.S. Grand Prix snowboarding event at Copper Mountain, Colo. (AP Photo/Hugh Carey)
On road to 5th Olympics, White finds the risk is worth it
By Eddie Pells
Dec. 13, 2021 12:45 PM EST
Head of Paris 2024 Olympics Tony Estanguet, attends a press conference ahead of the Paris Olympics 2024 to present the opening ceremonies, in Paris, Monday, Dec. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Paris to stage 2024 Olympics opening ceremony on River Seine
By Graham Dunbar
Dec. 13, 2021 12:42 PM EST
Slovakia's Petra Vlhova celebrates after finishing a women's World Cup slalom ski race Sunday, Nov. 28, 2021, Killington, Vt. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Shiffrin rival Vlhova sticks to reduced World Cup schedule
By Eric Willemsen
Dec. 13, 2021 11:14 AM 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)
Olympic swimming champion Agnel denies coercion in rape case
Dec. 13, 2021 10:12 AM EST
FILE - Natalia Nepryaeva of Russia competes during the women's 10 km free style race at the Davos Nordic FIS Cross Country World Cup in Davos, Switzerland, on Dec. 16, 2018. The 2022 Olympics is just weeks away with China a more problematic host than expected for a Winter Games that had once seemed destined for Europe. The past weekend of World Cup ski events in two upscale Swiss towns that wanted to stage these Olympics showed what might have been. Games in snow-covered resorts with decades of winter sports tradition and without diplomatic boycotts or talk of human rights records. (Gian Ehrenzeller/Keystone via AP, File)
Swiss ski resorts show what 2022 Olympics could have been
By Graham Dunbar
Dec. 13, 2021 07:14 AM EST
Portugal's Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva, right, greets German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock during a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the European Council building in Brussels on Monday, Dec. 13, 2021. European Union foreign ministers met Monday to discuss how to thwart the threat of a possible new Russian invasion of Ukraine and what measures to take should Moscow decide to send its troops across the border. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
EU has little appetite to join US diplomatic Games boycott
By Raf Casert
Dec. 13, 2021 07:12 AM EST
Russia hit with triathlon sanctions in doping crackdown
Dec. 13, 2021 07:08 AM EST
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — World Triathlon imposed a package of sanctions on Russia on Monday after repeated doping cases, including one involving an athlete who...
Boxing body pledges reform to win back Olympic spot for 2028
Dec. 13, 2021 06:26 AM EST
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Boxing will reform a judging system tainted by manipulation to regain its place on the program for the 2028 Olympics, the president of...
Japan's Nana Takagi skates during the women's 1500-meter competition at the ISU World Cup speedskating event in Calgary, Alberta, Sunday, Dec. 12, 2021. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)
Bowe, US men win titles at World Cup speedskating in Calgary
Dec. 12, 2021 11:02 PM EST
Shaun White, of United States, reacts after stumbling on his third run in the halfpipe finals Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021, during the U.S. Grand Prix snowboarding event at Copper Mountain, Colo. (AP Photo/Hugh Carey)
White finishes 8th, ticket still unpunched for 5th Olympics
By Eddie Pells
Dec. 12, 2021 12:20 AM EST
Japan's Nao Kodaira skates to victory in the women's 1000-meter competition at the ISU World Cup speed skating event in Calgary, Alberta, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)
American Joey Mantia wins 1,500 in World Cup speedskating
Dec. 11, 2021 11:24 PM EST
ISU cancels Four Continents short track speedskating in Utah
Dec. 11, 2021 10:14 PM EST
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Four Continents short track speedskating championships in January have been canceled because of expected limited attendance due to the new...
Protesters hold Tibetan flags during a protest against Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics by activists of the Tibetan Youth Association in Europe front of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021. (Jean-Guy Python/Keystone via AP)
Olympic leaders criticize FIFA as activists target meeting
By Graham Dunbar
Dec. 11, 2021 12:45 PM EST
Jan Hoerl of Austria in action during the team competition of the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup Ski Jump, in Wisla, Poland, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
Virus cases in Japan force cancellation of WCup ski jumping
Dec. 11, 2021 03:38 AM EST