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FILE - Visitors watch a simulation of the Parade of Nations exhibit during the opening day of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum in Colorado Springs Colo., on July 30, 2020. More than 27 months since it was greenlighted by Congress, the panel established to investigate the inner workings of the U.S. Olympic structure has yet to conduct a formal interview because of bureaucratic red tape and slow action from the same lawmakers who had expressed a pressing need for better oversight. The commission was created as part of the bipartisan “Empowering Olympic, Paralympic, and Amateur Athletes Act of 2020,” which itself came out of an 18-month investigation into how the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee and the sports organizations it oversees mishandled sex-abuse cases in gymnastics and other sports. (Chancey Bush/The Gazette via AP, File)
Probe into US Olympic failings stunted by red tape in DC
By Eddie Pells
10 hrs ago
Los Angeles Clippers head coach Tyronn Lue reacts during the first half of an NBA basketball game Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
Lue replaces Williams on USA Basketball men's coaching staff
By Tim Reynolds
12 hrs ago
FILE - Phoenix Mercury guard Diana Taurasi, left, high-fives teammate Brittney Griner during the first half of a WNBA basketball game against the Chicago Sky, on July 2, 2014, in Phoenix. Griner texted her good friend Diana Taurasi on Tuesday morning, Feb. 7, 2023, asking how the USA Basketball training camp was going. Griner was back in Arizona, choosing to skip the camp in Minnesota so she can be with her wife and recover from her time in a Russian jail. She returned to the U.S. in December after a dramatic prisoner swap. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)
Brittney Griner absent from USA camp, but keeping in touch
By Doug Feinberg
14 hrs ago
FILE - Olena Kostevych and Bogdan Nikishin, of Ukraine, carry their country's flag during the opening ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, on July 23, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. Ukraine has stepped up efforts to lobby international sports leaders against Russian participation in next year’s Paris Olympics as indications mount that the games could see the biggest boycott since the Cold War. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
IOC responds to Paris mayor on Olympic plan for Russians
By Graham Dunbar
16 hrs ago
United States' Mikaela Shiffrin celebrates taking second place in an alpine ski, women's World Championships super G, in Meribel, France, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati)
Shiffrin's silver at ski worlds inspired by LeBron's record
By Andrew Dampf
17 hrs ago
Sweden weighs up whether to bid for 2030 Winter Olympics
By Steve Douglas
18 hrs ago
Sweden’s Olympic leaders are weighing up whether to bid for the Winter Games in 2030. The Nordic country’s potential entry into the race to stage the...
Elina Svitolina talks during an interview with The Associated Press in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. Ukrainian tennis player and Olympic bronze medalist Elina Svitolina has pushed for a total ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes from the 2024 Paris Games in an interview with The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Svitolina calls for Russians to be banned from Olympics
By Hanna Arhirova
18 hrs ago
Today in Sports History-Winter Games open in PyeongChang
By The Associated Press
19 hrs ago
Feb. 9 1912 — The U.S. Tennis Association amends the rules for the men’s singles championship play. The defending champion is required to play through...
FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2020, file photo, the Olympic rings are reinstalled after it was taken down for maintenance ahead of the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics in the Odaiba section in Tokyo. A senior official with the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee and three company executives were arrested Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023, in an ongoing bid-rigging scandal related to the Games. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
Tokyo Olympic official, 3 others held in bid-rigging probe
By Yuri Kageyama
Feb. 08, 2023 02:18 AM EST
Diana Taurasi takes part in drills during a minicamp for the U.S women's national basketball team, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)
Diana Taurasi has sights set on playing at Paris Olympics
By Doug Feinberg
Feb. 07, 2023 03:06 PM EST
Ukraine's Ivan Kovbasnyuk speeds down the course during the super G portion of an alpine ski, men's World Championship combined race, in Courchevel, France, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Gabriele Facciotti)
Ukrainian skier pushes to keep Russians out of the Olympics
By Andrew Dampf
Feb. 07, 2023 02:14 PM EST
Today in Sports History-Kasai first person in 8 Winter Games
By The Associated Press
Feb. 07, 2023 10:12 AM EST
Feb. 8 1936 — Jay Berwanger, University of Chicago halfback and Heisman Trophy winner, is the first player ever selected in the NFL Draft. The...
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)
Paris mayor: No Russian team at 2024 Games if war continues
Feb. 07, 2023 07:38 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)
Nordic sports bodies urge IOC to ban Russian athletes
Feb. 07, 2023 07:22 AM EST
United States' Mikaela Shiffrin reacts after failing to complete the slalom portion of an alpine ski, women's World Championship combined race, in Meribel, France, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati)
Shiffrin's Beijing lesson helps after another big-race DNF
By Andrew Dampf
Feb. 06, 2023 12:25 PM EST
FILE - Coach Eteri Tutberidze, left, talks to Kamila Valieva, center, of the Russian Olympic Committee, during a training session at the 2022 Winter Olympics, on Feb. 13, 2022, in Beijing. Russian President Vladimir Putin has awarded figure skating coach Eteri Tutberidze one of the country’s highest honors. It comes nearly a year after a doping case involving one of her top skaters overshadowed the Winter Olympics. A presidential decree published lists Tutberidze among three people awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky “for ensuring the successful training of athletes who achieved high sporting accomplishments” at the Winter Olympics in Beijing in Feb. 2022. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
Putin honors skating coach in Valieva Olympic case
Feb. 06, 2023 12:13 PM EST
Brazilian tennis player hit with 12-month doping ban
Feb. 06, 2023 11:34 AM EST
LONDON (AP) — Brazilian tennis player Gilbert Klier Junior, a bronze medalist at the 2018 Youth Olympics, has been banned for 12 months in a doping case, the...
Italy's Federica Brignone, center, winner of an alpine ski, women's World Championship combined race, celebrates with second-placed Switzerland's Wendy Holdener, left, and third-placed Austria's Ricarda Haaser, in Meribel, France, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati)
Brignone wins worlds combined race after Shiffrin straddles
Feb. 06, 2023 09:32 AM EST
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
Feb. 03, 2023 05:44 PM EST
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
Feb. 03, 2023 04:30 PM EST