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A Seine river police boat makes its way on the Seine river in front of the Eiffel Tower, on the route of the Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony, Tuesday, May 23, 2023 in Paris. France's government, the organizing committee chief for Paris 2024 and the French capital's mayor signed an 11-page security protocol that for the first time publicly laid out some of the gritty details of their planning to shield the unprecedented July 26, 2024 opening ceremony from the threats of terrorism, drone attacks and other risks for the massive crowds and 10,500 athletes. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
Fans will need to pre-register for free tickets to Paris' gargantuan 2024 Olympic opening ceremony

By John Leicester May. 23, 2023 09:44 AM EDT

This photo shows the Meiji Jingu Stadium, center, in Tokyo on July 22, 2015. Above the Meiji baseball stadium is Jingu Daini, or Second, Stadium, the Chichibunomiya rugby stadium, bottom left, and a construction site for the National Stadium, center right, used for the 2020 Summer Olympics, which were postponed to 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Kyodo News via AP)
Tokyo plan likened to putting 'skyscrapers' in Central Park

By Stephen Wade Apr. 28, 2023 01:16 AM EDT

Babou Sene makes his way on his wheelchair through the crowd Wednesday, April 26, 2023 at the Gare de Lyon train station, in Paris. An influential disabled rights group in France is boycotting a conference on disability Wednesday with French President Emmanuel Macron, amid frustration at dismal accessibility for people in wheelchairs and with other mobility challenges -- and years of unmet promises to make things better ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. On the network of 309 stations of subway system, only one line with 13 stations is fully accessible. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
Protests for disabled rights in France before Paris Olympics

By John Leicester Apr. 26, 2023 06:42 AM EDT

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach, right, speaks at the opening of the executive board meeting of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Lausanne, Switzerland, Tuesday, March 28, 2023. The IOC Executive Board is set to discuss the results of consultations regarding the status of athletes from Russia and Belarus in its meeting set to run until March 30. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP)
European lawmakers urge for Olympics ban on Russia, Belarus

By Graham Dunbar Apr. 25, 2023 02:06 PM EDT

The access to a subway station is made possible only for pedestrians, Monday, April 24, 2023 in Paris. A rebuke from Europe's foremost human rights body and the looming deadline of what's billed as fully accessible Paris Olympics in 2024 are together upping pressure on President Emmanuel's government to better protect the rights of people with disabilities, as the French leader gathers campaigners together Wednesday at the Elysee Palace for France's first national conference on disabilities since the COVID-19 pandemic (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
France under pressure over disabled rights as Olympics loom

By John Leicester Apr. 25, 2023 06:37 AM EDT

Andrew Liveris, right, president of the Brisbane Olympics organizing committee and Jock O'Callaghan, president of Paralympics stand on the stage at the general assembly of the Oceania National Olympic Committees in Brisbane, Australia, on Tuesday, April 18, 2023. In the 12 months since his appointment as inaugural president of the organizing committee for the Brisbane 2032 Olympics, Liveris has refined his vision of what the Summer Games will look like in nine years. (AP Photo/John Pye)
Brisbane Olympics leader marks 1 year in long run up to 2032

By John Pye Apr. 18, 2023 03:54 AM EDT

FILE - Richard Torrez Jr., from the United States, left, exchanges punches with Cuba's Dainier Pero during their men's super heavyweight over 91-kg boxing match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Aug. 1, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. American and British boxing officials have on Thursday, April 13, 2023 launched a breakaway group with the aim of saving boxing’s place at the Olympics, to be called World Boxing. Lauren Price of Britain, a gold medalist at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, and silver medalist Richard Torrez Jr. of the United States are on the board as athlete representatives. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, file)
Breakaway group aims to save boxing's Olympic status

Apr. 13, 2023 08:10 AM EDT

Sapporo Mayor Katsuhiro Akimoto, left, speaks during a news conference at a proposed site for the Olympics ski jump in Sapporo, northern Japan, on July 30, 2022. Sapporo's bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics has been slowed, but not stopped, by fallout from the still-developing corruption scandal around the 2020 Tokyo Games. (Yuta Omori/Kyodo News via AP)
Sapporo election could restart bid for 2030 Winter Olympics

By Stephen Wade And Yuri Kageyama Apr. 06, 2023 01:57 AM EDT

Gymnastics leader visits Ukraine as Olympic standoff deepens

Apr. 02, 2023 10:53 AM EDT
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The president of the International Gymnastics Federation has visited Ukraine for talks with senior political figures amid a standoff over...

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach, right, speaks at the opening of the executive board meeting of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Lausanne, Switzerland, Tuesday, March 28, 2023. The IOC Executive Board is set to discuss the results of consultations regarding the status of athletes from Russia and Belarus in its meeting set to run until March 30. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP)
IOC details advice to let Russia, Belarus athletes return

By Graham Dunbar And James Ellingworth Mar. 28, 2023 10:59 AM EDT

FILE - A display of the Olympic rings is set up on Trocadero plaza that overlooks the Eiffel Tower, after the vote in Lima, Peru, awarding the 2024 Games to the French capital, in Paris, France, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017. A proposed French law for the 2024 Paris Olympics that critics contend will open the door for privacy busting video surveillance technology in France and elsewhere in Europe faces an important hurdle Tuesday March 28, 2023 with lawmakers set to vote on it. The bill would legalize the temporary use of so-called "intelligent" surveillance systems to safeguard the Games and Paralympics. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)
Lawmakers back Paris Olympic law despite surveillance fears

By John Leicester Mar. 28, 2023 04:06 AM EDT

FILE - A passenger jet flies over the Olympic rings on display outside the Olympic Stadium where the athletic events are underway at the 2020 Summer Olympics Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. Mexico has declared its desire to host the Summer Olympics in 2036 or 2040 and says it already has most of the sports infrastructure required. Interest in hosting the 2036 Olympics had earlier been expressed by officials in countries including Egypt, England, India, Indonesia, Qatar and South Korea. Mexico City hosted the Summer Games in 1968. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
Mexico hopes to host Summer Olympics in 2036 or 2040

Mar. 25, 2023 08:59 AM EDT

FILE - International Olympic Committee, IOC, President Thomas Bach attends the opening of the Executive Board meeting at the Olympic House in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Dec. 5, 2022. Bach defended his organization's efforts to create a pathway for Russian and Belarusian athletes to return to Olympic competition in a speech in his home country of Germany which took place amid a pro-Ukraine protest, Wednesday, March 22, 2023, (Denis Balibouse/Pool Photo via AP, File)
IOC's Bach defends Russia stance amid pro-Ukraine protest

Mar. 22, 2023 06:15 PM EDT

Russia offers to host new sports event with China, India

Mar. 15, 2023 08:10 AM EDT
NEW DELHI (AP) — Russia offered Wednesday to host a new multi-sports event for countries such as China and India which are members of a regional grouping known as...

FILE - The Olympic rings are seen on the Place du Trocadero that overlooks the Eiffel Tower, after the vote in Lima, Peru, awarding the 2024 Games to the French capital, in Paris, Sept. 13, 2017. Organizers of the Paris 2024 Olympics promised Games with a relatively modest price tag and "egalitarian" access to events, thanks to an online draw meant to revolutionize ticket sales and bring the masses to next year's Olympics with prices as low as 24 euros ($26). But as the first round of ticketing winds down, many "lucky" winners chosen for the draw are feeling frustrated, angry and cheated, as their only option during the 48-hour purchasing window was paying at least 200 euros per ticket for the few remaining events on offer. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)
Britain lobbies Olympic sponsors over IOC's Russia stance

Mar. 10, 2023 07:02 PM EST

USA Badminton agrees to pay $1M in 'confidential' settlement

By Eddie Pells Mar. 07, 2023 05:03 PM EST
The federation that runs Olympic badminton in the United States reached a $1 million settlement with an employee who contended he was terminated for going against...

FILE - Russian Kamila Valieva competes in the women's free skate program during the figure skating competition at the 2022 Russian Figure Skating Grand Prix, the Golden Skate of Moscow, at Megasport Arena in Moscow, Russia, on Oct. 23, 2022. The World Anti-Doping Agency has appealed Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva's doping case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport and said Tuesday, Feb 21, 2023, it is seeking a four-year ban. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Russian agency also appeals in Valieva Olympic doping case

Feb. 24, 2023 07:55 AM EST

IOC (International Olympic Committee) President Thomas Bach, right, stands in the finish area of the alpine ski, men's World Championship downhill, in Courchevel, France, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati)
Nations: No clarity on neutrality, no Olympics for Russia

By Eddie Pells Feb. 20, 2023 08:00 AM EST

Lawmakers ask EU countries to pressure IOC for Russia's ban

Feb. 17, 2023 07:22 AM EST
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union lawmakers have condemned the International Olympic Committee's decision to set out a path for some athletes from Russia and Belarus to...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, left, and Queensland state premier Annastacia Palaszczuk view images of planned Olympic sites in Brisbane, Friday, Feb. 17, 2023. The federal and the Queensland state government have agreed on an almost 50-50 funding split to build or remodel existing venues for the 2032 Brisbane Olympics. (Darren England/AAP Image via AP)
Australian governments agree funding split for 2032 Olympics

Feb. 16, 2023 10:21 PM EST