Accidents and disasters
FILE - A general view of the Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor, Qatar, Monday, Dec. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic, File)
EXPLAINER: What's post-World Cup future for Qatar's stadiums

By Graham Dunbar Dec. 05, 2022 04:45 PM EST

Laura Kenny of England celebrates during the women's 10km scratch race final during the Commonwealth Games track cycling at Lee Valley VeloPark in London, Monday, Aug. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Ian Walton)
Aussies change handlebars at Commonwealths and keep winning

By Courtney Walsh Aug. 01, 2022 10:20 AM EDT

Tenn. center that hosted 1996 Olympics events burns down

Apr. 26, 2022 10:39 AM EDT
COPPERHILL, Tenn. (AP) — A fire early Tuesday destroyed Tennessee's Ocoee Whitewater Center, which served as the host site for paddling events during the 1996...

United States players console goalkeeper Strauss Mann after losing to Slovakia 3-2 in a shoot-out in a men's quarterfinal hockey game at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
US men's hockey team gets noise complaint after Olympic loss

By Stephen Whyno Feb. 19, 2022 05:53 AM EST

Finland's Jon Sallinen competes during the men's halfpipe qualification at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Olympic ski halfpipe qualifier filled with scary crashes

By Pat Graham Feb. 17, 2022 05:25 AM EST

Sofia Goggia, of Italy, celebrates after finishing the women's downhill at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022, in the Yanqing district of Beijing. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
On bad knee, Goggia gets Olympic downhill silver; Suter wins

By Howard Fendrich Feb. 15, 2022 12:26 AM EST

Nathan Chen, of the United States, competes in the men's free skate program during the figure skating event at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Olympics Live: Germany sweeps luge golds with team relay

Feb. 09, 2022 08:10 PM EST

Dominik Fischnaller, of Italy, prepares for a luge men's run at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Saturday, Feb. 5, 2022, in the Yanqing district of Beijing. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
Germany's Ludwig has lead midway through men's Olympic luge

By Tim Reynolds Feb. 05, 2022 09:12 AM EST

FILE - Bronze medalist Alex Deibold of the United States walks to a flower ceremony after the men's snowboard cross final at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Feb. 18, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. Deibold suffered a head injury in a crash during qualifying at a World Cup event just days before his arrival in China. His absence hit his teammates’ hard. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits, File)
For Alex: US snowboardcrossers have injured Deibold on mind

By Pat Graham Feb. 05, 2022 08:09 AM EST

Figure skating athlete Nicole Schott of Germany trains at Capital Indoor Stadium at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
The Latest: Japanese snowboarder Yoshika injured in crash

Feb. 03, 2022 12:07 AM EST

Brazilian skier out of Olympics after car crash in Italy

Jan. 28, 2022 07:33 AM EST
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian cross-country skier Bruna Moura will miss the Beijing Olympics after sustaining multiple fractures in a car crash in Italy. ...

FILE -David Kumaritashvili, father of the Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili killed during a training run at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, stands at the grave of his son Friday, Jan. 17, 2014 in Bakuriani, Georgia. Saba Kumaritashvili will compete in luge next month at the Beijing Olympics, 12 years after his cousin Nodar Kumaritashvili died in a training accident at the Vancouver Games. (AP Photo/Shakh Aivazov, File)
For Nodar: Georgian luge family makes a return to Olympics

By Tim Reynolds Jan. 26, 2022 02:29 AM EST

Italy's Sofia Goggia looks at the course before an alpine ski, women's World Cup super-G race in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Sunday, Jan. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Gabriele Facciotti)
Goggia eyes return for Olympic downhill after latest crash

By Andrew Dampf Jan. 23, 2022 01:58 PM EST

Injured Polish luge athlete picked for Beijing Olympics

By Tim Reynolds Jan. 19, 2022 12:31 PM EST
A Polish luge athlete who was seriously injured in a November training crash at the track built for next month’s Olympics plans to head back to that venue and...

FILE - Los Angeles Lakers' Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (33) hooks a shot over Portland Trail Blazers' Jim Brewer (52) during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Los Angeles on March 12, 1980. Abdul-Jabbar wins his sixth MVP award after claiming five in the 1970s. He averaged 24.8 points, 10.8 rebounds and 3.4 blocks. (AP Photo/Lennox McLendon, File)
Timeline of NBA in 1980s as league celebrates 75th season

By The Associated Press Jan. 17, 2022 10:45 AM EST

FILE- Trinidad and Tobago's Deon Lendore, right, and United States' Kyle Clemons, left, round a turn as they compete in a heat of the men's 400-meter sprint during the World Indoor Athletics Championships on March 18, 2016, in Portland, Ore. Lendore, 29, a former Olympic sprinter and bronze medalist for Trinidad & Tobago and NCAA champion at Texas A&M, was killed in a head-on collision in Texas, state police said, Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
Trinidad Olympic sprinter Deon Lendore killed in Texas crash

Jan. 11, 2022 05:26 PM EST

Luge officials: Olympic luge track crash was 'human error'

By Tim Reynolds Nov. 11, 2021 10:05 AM EST
The International Luge Federation said Thursday that “human error" caused a Polish athlete to crash and suffer serious leg injuries in a training run this week...

Chinese paramilitary police wearing goggles and face masks march in formation at the Yanqing National Sliding Center during an IBSF sanctioned race, a test event for the 2022 Winter Olympics, in Beijing, Monday, Oct. 25, 2021. A northwestern Chinese province heavily dependent on tourism closed all tourist sites Monday after finding new COVID-19 cases. The spread of the delta variant by travellers and tour groups is of particular concern ahead of the Winter Olympics in Beijing in February. Overseas spectators already are banned, and participants will have to stay in a bubble separating them from people outside. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Polish luge athlete injured in crash on Olympic track

By Tim Reynolds Nov. 08, 2021 03:30 PM EST

Tom Davis, shakes hands with Freddie De Los Santos after winning at Men's H4 Time Trial at the Fuji International Speedway at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
From battlefield to Tokyo: Combat vets vie at Paralympics

By Tim Sullivan Sep. 07, 2021 11:01 AM EDT

FILE - Oksana Masters, of the United States, on her way to a silver medal in the Biathlon Women's 12.5km Sitting event during the 2018 Winter Paralympics at the Alpensia Biathlon Centre in Pyeongchang, South Korea, March 16, 2018. Masters credits resiliency, determination and being headstrong for what she is today -- an eight-time Paralympic medalist. Masters persevered through 7 1/2 years in Ukrainian orphanages and with birth defects believed to be the aftermath of Chernobyl, the world's worst nuclear accident. That malnourished orphan eventually was adopted by her American mom. She will compete at the Paralympics in Tokyo in road cycling this week. In six months, she also plans to defend her cross-country skiing Paralympic titles in Beijing. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, file)
Masters cruises to Paralympic gold in hand-cycle time trial

By Pat Graham Aug. 30, 2021 02:18 AM EDT