Paralympic Games

New Year honors for champions Carrington and Pascoe in NZ

Dec. 30, 2021 03:23 PM EST
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Five-time Olympic kayak champion Lisa Carrington was awarded the title of Dame in New Zealand’s New Year honors list. ...

FILE - Yasuhiro Yamashita, President of the Japanese Olympic Committee, poses for photographers prior to a press conference Monday, June 28, 2021, in Tokyo, ahead of the opening of Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on July 23. Japan announced Friday, Dec. 24, 2021, it won't send a delegation of ministers to represent the government at the Beijing Games but three Olympic officials will attend, a mixed response to a U.S.-led move to boycott the games to protest China's human rights conditions. Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee President Seiko Hashimoto, Kazuyuki Mori, the president of the Japan Paralympic Committee, and Yamashita will attend. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

Japan won't send government delegation to Beijing Olympics

By Mari Yamaguchi Dec. 23, 2021 11:39 PM EST

FILE - Young people pose behind the Olympic Rings during the Torch Tour ahead of the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games, in front of the Olympic House in Lausanne, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. Instead of staking out a hardline position on the conflicts inherent in sending Olympic athletes to China, the leader of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee turned questions about the issues in the host country into a marketing pitch of sorts for America's own aspirations. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP, File)

USOPC stays neutral on China, pushes Salt Lake City

By Eddie Pells Dec. 17, 2021 04:32 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 03:57 PM EST

FILE - China's Peng Shuai serves to Japan's Nao Hibino during their first round singles match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, on Jan. 21, 2020. The stand the women's professional tennis tour is taking in China over concern about Grand Slam doubles champion Peng Shuai's well-being could cost the WTA millions of dollars and end up being unique among sports bodies. The International Olympic Committee is preparing to host the Winter Games in Beijing in two months and has held calls with Peng to show she is doing well — but never raised the matter of the sexual assault allegations she made against a former Chinese government official. (AP Photo/Andy Brownbill, File)

US Olympic board member pushes quiet diplomacy in Peng case

By Eddie Pells Dec. 08, 2021 09:49 AM EST

This combination of photos shows, from left, snowboarder Jamie Anderson, bobsledder Aja Evans and alpine skier Ryan Cochran-Siegle modeling the Team USA Beijing winter Olympics closing ceremony uniforms designed by Ralph Lauren on Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021, in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Ralph Lauren rolls out buffalo plaid for Team USA in Beijing

By Leanne Italie Oct. 28, 2021 09:00 AM EDT

A view of the Arena in Verona, Italy, Friday, June 25, 2021. The opening ceremony for the Milan-Cortina Winter Paralympics in 2026 has been switched from Milan to Verona in a cost-cutting move. The ceremony was slated for the PalaItalia Santa Giulia being built in Milan but will now be held at Verona’s Arena. The large Roman amphitheater in Verona was already slated to host the closing ceremony of the 2026 Olympics. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Opening ceremony of 2026 Winter Paralympics moved to Verona

Oct. 19, 2021 12:59 PM EDT

FILE - Gold medalist Kaillie Humphries of the United States celebrates during the medal ceremony for the two-woman bobsled competition at the Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships in Altenberg, Germany, in this Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020, file photo. The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee said Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021, that it is still trying to help world champion bobsledder Kaillie Humphries obtain a way to compete in this winter's Beijing Games. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer, File)

USOPC says it is trying to help Humphries' Olympic quest

By Tim Reynolds Oct. 19, 2021 12:11 PM EDT

FILE - In this May 2, 2021, file photo, a woman adjusts her face mask as she walks by a statue featuring the Beijing Winter Olympics figure skating on display at the Shougang Park in Beijing. China's "zero tolerance" strategy of trying to isolate every case and stop transmission of the coronavirus has kept kept the country where the virus first was detected in late 2019 largely free of the disease. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

Organizers detail COVID-19 rules for Beijing Winter Olympics

Sep. 29, 2021 03:06 PM EDT

FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 24, 2014 file photo, People stand under a set of Olympic Rings as they watch the sun set over the Black Sea a day after the close of the 2014 Winter Olympics, in Sochi, Russia. U.S. athletes trying to make the Winter Olympics will have to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 under a groundbreaking new policy announced Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021 by the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee.(AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

USOPC: American hopefuls for Beijing Games must have vaccine

By Eddie Pells Sep. 22, 2021 06:45 PM EDT

Spanish Paralympic swimmer to fly home after anxiety attack

Sep. 09, 2021 12:07 PM EDT
MADRID (AP) — A prominent Spanish Paralympic swimmer will be flown home after she was hospitalized in Tokyo because of an anxiety attack, the Spanish...