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FILE - United States Rosey Fletcher clears a gate during the women's snowboard parallel giant slalom race at the Turin 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Bardonecchia, Italy, on Feb. 23, 2006. Olympic bronze medalist Rosey Fletcher filed a lawsuit accusing former snowboard coach Peter Foley of sexually assaulting, harassing and intimidating members of his team for years, while the organizations overseeing the team did nothing to stop it.  Fletcher is a plaintiff in one of two lawsuits filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
Snowboarders sue coach, USOPC in assault, harassment case

By Eddie Pells 14 hrs ago

FILE - A Russian flag is held above the Olympic Rings at Adler Arena Skating Center during the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia on Feb. 18, 2014. Russia and its ally Belarus have been invited to compete at the Asian Games in the next step to qualify athletes for next year’s Paris Olympics. The arrangement has been brokered by the International Olympic Committee. The IOC indicated on Wednesday that it favours allowing Russians to compete at the 2024 Olympics as neutral athletes. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
Column: IOC talks tough on Russia — until Paris on horizon

By Paul Newberry 15 hrs ago

FILE - In this Feb. 15, 2014 file photo Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and IOC President Thomas Bach meet in the Bolshoi Ice Dome in Sochi, Russia. The question of if and how Russia competes at the Olympics hangs over the 2024 Paris Summer Games. Just as it has now for five straight Olympics during Thomas Bach’s leadership of the IOC. The Bach-led International Olympic Committee's support this week for some Russians to compete in Paris as neutrals was publicly challenged Friday, Jan. 27, 2023 by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.  (RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service via AP, file)
Olympic echoes of boycott era as Ukraine vs IOC intensifies

17 hrs ago

Mayor of Marseille Benoit Payan, center, raises the Olympic flag with Head of Paris 2024 Olympics Tony Estanguet, center right, after a press conference at the Marseille City Hall, southern France, Friday, Feb. 3. 2023. Instead of arriving overland, the symbolic flame alighting the Paris 2024 Games will take to the seas from its birthplace in Greece, arriving aboard a three-masted tall ship in the French port of Marseille. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Olympic bans and boycotts go back a century

By The Associated Press 20 hrs ago

Today in Sports History-Popovich is the winningest coach

By The Associated Press 22 hrs ago
Feb. 4 1861 — The Philadelphia Athletics beat Charter Oak 36-27 in a baseball game played on frozen Litchfield Pond in Brooklyn, N.Y., with the players...

Mayor of Marseille Benoit Payan, left, raises the Olympic flag with Head of Paris 2024 Olympics Tony Estanguet, center, after a press conference at Marseille City Hall, southern France, Friday, Feb. 3. 2023. Instead of arriving overland, the symbolic flame alighting the Paris 2024 Games will take to the seas from its birthplace in Greece, arriving aboard a three-masted tall ship in the French port of Marseille. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Ukraine pushes to exclude Russia from 2024 Paris Olympics

By Hanna Arhirova 23 hrs ago

FILE - United States' Mikaela Shiffrin speeds down the course during an alpine ski, women's World Cup slalom, in Spindleruv Mlyn, Czech Republic, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2023. A quick glance at the top female skiers to watch for at the world championships in Courchevel and Meribel, France, starting Feb. 6, 2023.  (AP Photo/Piermarco Tacca, File)
Shiffrin, Goggia and Gut-Behrami are the favorites at worlds

By Andrew Dampf 24 hrs ago

Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte speaks at a joint news conference with Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas and Latvian Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins during their meeting in Tallinn, Estonia, Friday, Feb. 3, 2023. The prime ministers of the three Baltic countries meet in Tallinn to discuss, among other things, joint aid efforts for Ukraine. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
Baltic leaders: Olympic boycott possible if Russians compete

24 hrs ago

From left, Head of Paris 2024 Olympics Tony Estanguet, Mayor of Marseille Benoit Payan, President of Paca regional council Renaud Muselier and President of the Bouches-du-Rhone departmental council Martine Vassal attend a press conference at Marseille City Hall, southern France, Friday, Feb. 3. 2023. Instead of arriving overland, the symbolic flame alighting the Paris 2024 Games will take to the seas from its birthplace in Greece, arriving aboard a three-masted tall ship in the French port of Marseille. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Olympic flame to take seaborne journey to 2024 Paris Games

Feb. 03, 2023 06:21 AM EST

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen write their wishes on a Ukrainian flag during the EU-Ukraine summit in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. ((Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)
IOC details Russia stance for Olympics, cites human rights

By Graham Dunbar Feb. 02, 2023 03:52 PM EST

FILE - Kamila Valieva, of the Russian Olympic Committee, competes in the women's free skate program during the figure skating competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics, on Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. he World Anti-Doping Agency says a Russian tribunal has found figure skater Kamila Valieva bore “no fault or negligence” in a doping case that rocked last year’s Winter Olympics. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)
US Figure Skating blasts delay in awarding of Beijing medals

By Dave Skretta Feb. 02, 2023 01:06 PM EST

Young people play water polo at the University of Ghana in Accra, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023. Former water polo pro Asante Prince is training young players in the sport in his father's homeland of Ghana, where swimming pools are rare and the ocean is seen as dangerous. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)
Ghana water polo grows as sport looks for more diversity

By Jay Cohen Feb. 02, 2023 06:00 AM EST

FILE - Austria's Vincent Kriechmayr is airborne during an alpine ski, men's World Cup downhill race, in Bormio, Italy, Wednesday, Dec.28, 2022. Once known as skiing’s “Wunderteam” for its domination of the ski racing circuit, Austrian men and women have both been struggling for results this season while Austrian coaches are lending their expertise to other nations. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati, File)
Austrian ski team aims to rediscover its magic at worlds

By Eric Willemsen Feb. 02, 2023 05:25 AM EST

FILE - Workers prepare to remove giant Olympic rings from the waterfront area at Odaiba Marine Park after 2020 Summer Olympics came to an end on Aug. 8 in Tokyo, Japan, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021. A Japanese company embroiled in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic corruption scandal said Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023, it would strengthen oversight to prevent further wrongdoing. (Kim Kyung-hoon/Pool Photo via AP, File)
Tokyo Olympic bribery scandal rolls on; company apologizes

By Yuri Kageyama And Stephen Wade Feb. 02, 2023 04:33 AM EST

FILE- Gene Sykes claps after City Council voted 12-0 to endorse documents at the heart of its plan to stage the Summer Olympics for the third time since 1932, in Los Angeles on Aug. 11, 2017.  The new leader of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee has reiterated the federation’s support for exploring a way for Russian athletes to compete at the Paris Olympics as neutrals. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
USOPC: Russian pathway possible, but sanctions must remain

By Eddie Pells Feb. 01, 2023 08:59 PM EST

FILE - Mikaela Shiffrin, of the United States, skis down after falling the women's combined slalom at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in the Yanqing district of Beijing. Shiffrin isn't putting the same pressure on herself for the upcoming world championships, starting on on Feb. 6, 2023 in Courchevel and Meribel, France, that she did for last year's Beijing Olympics. The event is Shiffrin's first major championship since American skier didn't win a medal and didn't finish three of her five races at the Olympics.  (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)
Shiffrin shifts from record chase to medal races at worlds

By Andrew Dampf Feb. 01, 2023 07:14 AM EST

FILE - A woman passes by the Olympic rings at the City Hall in Paris, on  July 25, 2022. Latvia is  threatening to boycott next year’s Paris Olympics if athletes from Russia and its ally Belarus are allowed to take part after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly, File)
Latvia threatens Olympic boycott if Russians compete

Feb. 01, 2023 05:45 AM EST

FILE - United States' Diana Taurasi, left, and Brittney Griner tale part in a women's basketball practice at the 2020 Summer Olympics, July 24, 2021, in Saitama, Japan. Taurasi’s USA Basketball career isn’t done just yet. The five-time Olympic gold medalist is part of the national team training camp in Minnesota next month. While Taurasi will be at the camp, Brittney Griner won’t. She is still part of the pool that the 2024 Olympic team will be chosen from. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, file)
Taurasi to take part in USA Basketball training camp

By Doug Feinberg Jan. 31, 2023 12:16 PM EST

FILE - Former heavyweight boxing world champion Wladimir Klitschko leaves after a meeting with German Economy and Climate Minister Robert Habeck in Berlin, March 31, 2022. Olympic gold medalist Wladimir Klitschko has joined Ukraine’s fight against IOC plans to let some Russians compete at the 2024 Paris Summer Games, it was announced Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. The former heavyweight world champion has suggested in a video message sports leaders will be accomplices to the war if athletes from Russia and its military ally Belarus can compete at the next Olympics.  (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, file)
Boxer Klitschko joins fight against Olympic path for Russia

By Graham Dunbar Jan. 31, 2023 11:05 AM EST

Alexander Zverev of Germany plays a backhand return to Michael Mmoh of the U.S. during their second round match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
ATP abuse probe finds 'insufficient evidence' against Zverev

Jan. 31, 2023 07:23 AM EST

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