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FILE - Athletes compete at the World Rowing Championships in Ottensheim, near Linz, Austria, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019. The governing body of rowing says it will allow a “limited number” of athletes from Russia and Belarus to return to competition for the world championships in September. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)
Rowing to allow 'limited number' of Russians to compete in key Olympic qualifier

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FILE - PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan speaks during a news conference before the start of the Travelers Championship golf tournament at TPC River Highlands, Wednesday, June 22, 2022, in Cromwell, Conn. The most disruptive year in golf ended Tuesday, June 6, 2023, when the PGA Tour and European tour agreed to a merger with Saudi Arabia's golf interests, creating a commercial operation designed to unify professional golf around the world.(AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
LIV Golf-PGA Tour merger reignites not-so-clean debate over sportswashing

By Eddie Pells Jun. 06, 2023 05:59 PM EDT

Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus, top, and Ukraine's Marta Kostyuk, left, refused to shake hands at the end of their first round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, Sunday, May 28, 2023. Sabalenka won in two sets, 6-3, 6-2. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
Olympic sports leaders meet amid uncertainty over Russians competing at 2024 Paris Games

By Graham Dunbar May. 31, 2023 01:36 AM EDT

FILE - The Olympic rings are set up at Trocadero plaza that overlooks the Eiffel Tower, a day after the official announcement that the 2024 Summer Olympic Games will be in the French capital, in Paris, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017. A new-round ticketing sale kicked off Thursday for Paris Olympics next year. Only the lucky winners of a lottery will be able to buy about 1.5 million seats for the most prestigious competitions, as well as the opening and closure ceremonies. (AP Photo//Michel Euler, File)
Organizers of Paris Olympics say 6.8 million tickets sold so far, defend pricing

By Samuel Petrequin May. 23, 2023 01:05 PM EDT

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

FILE - Winner Justyna Kowalczyk of Poland skis during the ladies skiathlon 7.5 km classic and 7.5 km free event of the FIS Cross Country World Cup in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017. Poland's Alpinism authorities say that climber Kacper Tekieli, husband of Justyna Kowalczyk, Polish multiple Olympic and World champion in cross-country skiing, has died tragically in Swiss Alps. The body of 38-year-old Tekieli was found Thursday, May 18, 2021 under an avalanche. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)
Husband of 2-time Olympic champion Justyna Kowalczyk killed in avalanche

May. 18, 2023 09:42 AM EDT

Paris Organising Committee of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games President Tony Estanguet gives a press conference, in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, France, Wednesday, May 17, 2023. "The French capital detailed plans for a Pride House that will celebrate LGBTQ people during the Olympics and Paralympics next year and the chief Paris Games organizer pledged that Olympians and campaigners will be given "plenty of opportunities" to speak for LGBTQ rights at the sports showcase. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Paris Olympics vows to carry the torch for LGBTQ rights after watershed of Tokyo

By John Leicester May. 17, 2023 11:58 AM EDT

Ginkgo trees are seen behind of Prince Chichibu Memorial Rugby Stadium at an area known as Jingu Gaien Friday, May 12, 2023, in Tokyo. Building new sports facilities is at the heart of a disputed plan to makeover one of Tokyo most beloved park areas. Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike is at the center of controversy, as she was in promoting the recent Tokyo Olympics. The redevelopment of the park area known as Jingu Gaien raises questions about who decides how public space is to be used. (AP Photo/Stephen Wade)
Dispute centered around redevelopment of historic Tokyo park, iconic stadiums

By Stephen Wade May. 17, 2023 01:23 AM EDT

Sweden's Minister for Social Affairs and Public Health Jacob Forssmed speaks during his arrival for a meeting of EU sports ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, Monday, May 15, 2023. A boycott of the Paris Olympics by European Union countries is not on the table, the country currently in charge of the 27-nation bloc's presidency said on Monday, urging the International Olympic Committee to exclude Russian and Belarusian athletes from the 2024 Games. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
IOC puts trust at risk by seeking ways to allow Russia to compete at Olympics, EU official tells AP

By Samuel Petrequin May. 15, 2023 09:51 AM EDT

Russia, Belarus have Paralympic membership suspension overturned, but athletes still barred

May. 12, 2023 07:32 AM EDT
BONN, Germany (AP) — Russia and its ally Belarus have had their suspension from membership of the International Paralympic Committee overturned on appeal but their...

FILE - United States' Deedee Trotter, right, United States' Sanya Richards-Ross, front center and United States' Allyson Felix, back left, celebrate winning gold in the women's 4x400-meter relay final during the athletics in the Olympic Stadium at the 2012 Summer Olympics, London, Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012. Swimming, gymnastics and track & field fans can rejoice. For the first time in a European Olympics, those events finals will be televised live on network television in the United States. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
NBC will air most of marquee Olympic events from Paris live during daytime

By Joe Reedy May. 11, 2023 11:00 AM EDT

FILE - The Olympic rings are set up at Trocadero plaza that overlooks the Eiffel Tower, a day after the official announcement that the 2024 Summer Olympic Games will be in the French capital, in Paris, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017. A new-round ticketing sale kicked off Thursday for Paris Olympics next year. Only the lucky winners of a lottery will be able to buy about 1.5 million seats for the most prestigious competitions, as well as the opening and closure ceremonies. (AP Photo//Michel Euler, File)
1.5 million Olympic tickets on sale in new lottery round for 2024 Paris Games

By Sylvie Corbet May. 11, 2023 10:56 AM EDT

FILE - President of the Russian Olympic Committee Stanislav Pozdnyakov attends a news conference in Moscow, Russia, on March 25, 2021. Pozdnyakov indicated Thursday May 11, 2023 that the country could boycott qualifying competitions in fencing for next year’s Paris Games after some athletes, including his own daughter, were barred from competing. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
Russian Olympic Committee president hits out at IOC after top athletes excluded

May. 11, 2023 09:33 AM EDT

Assistant of French chef Charles Guilloy of Sodexo Live prepares a green lentil dahl, with skyr coriander and a corn tuile dish during media conference of Sodexo Live a food and management service group in Paris, Tuesday, May 9, 2023. The company tasked with serving 40,000 meals a day at the Olympic Village unveiled Tuesday some of the items on the menu of a restaurant that plans to serve food prepared by some of France’s most-renowned chefs. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
Baguettes but no wine: Olympians to eat gourmet in Paris

By Sylvie Corbet And Oleg Cetinic May. 09, 2023 03:10 PM EDT

FILE - Ralph Boston smiles on the podium at the Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy, Sept. 2, 1960. Ralph Boston, the Olympic long jump champion who broke Jesse Owens' record then later had his own mark eclipsed by Bob Beamon's record-shattering leap at the Mexico City Games, has died. He was 83. The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee confirmed Boston died Sunday, April 30, 2023, at his home outside of Atlanta.(AP Photo/File)
Ralph Boston, Olympian and 1st to jump 27 feet, dies at 83

May. 03, 2023 03:12 PM EDT

FILE - Former Southern Mississippi star and Olympic gold medalist Tori Bowie smiles during halftime of a college football game between Louisiana Tech and Southern Mississippi on Friday, Nov. 25, 2016, in Hattiesburg, Miss. Tori Bowie, the sprinter who won three Olympic medals at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, has died, her management company and USA Track and Field said Wednesday, May 3, 2023. Bowie was 32. She was found Tuesday in her Florida home. No cause of death was given. (Susan Broadbridge/Hattiesburg American via AP, File)
US sprinter, Olympic medalist Tori Bowie dies at 32

By Pat Graham May. 03, 2023 09:58 AM EDT

People take a photographs of the Olympic rings in front of the Paris City Hall, in Paris, Sunday, April 30, 2023. Olympic contestation is picking up online and starting to spill onto streets, because protesters are linking the Paris Games to unpopular pension reforms pushed through by French President Emmanuel Macron. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)
Next frontier in France's protests: Fake Olympic volunteers

By John Leicester May. 03, 2023 02:53 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

FILE - Izmir Smajlaj, of Albania, during a qualifications round in the men's long jump at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Saturday, July 31, 2021. Two top track and field officials in Albania have been banned for falsifying an athlete’s result to help him qualify for the Tokyo Olympics. The Athletics Integrity Unit says long jumper Izmir Smajlaj was cleared of being part of the conspiracy to falsely register a national record in May 2021. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)
Officials banned for false report for Olympic qualification

Apr. 26, 2023 06:34 AM EDT