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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)
French Open Women Singles

May. 31, 2023 01:38 AM 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 - Brigitte Henriques, French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF) president delivers her speech during a press conference in Paris, Tuesday, April 4, 2023. The president of France's Olympic committee resigned unexpectedly Thursday May 25, 2023, the latest shake-up for French sports and the country's preparations to host the Summer Olympics in Paris next year. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)
France's first female Olympic president resigns

May. 25, 2023 07:07 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

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

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

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

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

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

FILE - A display of the Olympic rings is set up on Trocadero plaza that overlooks the Eiffel Tower, after the vote awarding the 2024 Games to the French capital, in Paris, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017. Online applications for a lottery draw where winners can buy tickets for next year’s Olympic Games in Paris has closed. Entries for the draw ended at 6 p.m. local time on Thursday, April 20, 2023 and applicants must wait until early next month to find out if they were successful. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)
Registration closes for Paris Olympics ticket lottery draw

Apr. 20, 2023 02:30 PM EDT

Japan's Kanta Tsuneyama prepares to serve against Russian Olympic Committee's Sergey Sirant during their men's badminton singles match at the BWF World Championships in Huelva, Spain, on Dec. 13, 2021. Badminton has upheld its ban on Russian and Belarusian players in international competitions on the eve of the start of Olympic qualifying. The Badminton World Federation cites security concerns and says it needs “more clarity” on proposals from the International Olympic. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File)
Badminton keeps barring Russia as Olympic qualifying begins

Apr. 20, 2023 09:28 AM EDT

Members of the Geneva branch of Ukrainian society in Switzerland protest during a rally to urge International Olympic Committee to reconsider their decision of participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes under white neutral flag at the next 2024 Paris Olympic Games, in front of the IOC headquarters, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Saturday, March 25, 2023. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP)
Ukraine bars national sports teams from events with Russians

Apr. 14, 2023 11:36 AM EDT

Senior technician Omar Bach-Rais takes water samples from the River Seine for analysis as Aurelie Lemaire, a microbiology research intern looks on, in Paris, Wednesday, April 5, 2023. A costly and complex clean-up is resuscitating the River Seine just in time for it to play a starring role in the 2024 Paris Olympics. The city and its region are rushing to make the Seine's murky waters swimmable, so it can genuinely live up to its billing as the world’s most romantic river. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
Fancy a dip? An Olympic reboot for Paris' toxic River Seine

By John Leicester Apr. 11, 2023 02:22 AM EDT

Members of the Geneva branch of Ukrainian society in Switzerland protest during a rally to urge International Olympic Committee to reconsider their decision of participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes under white neutral flag at the next 2024 Paris Olympic Games, in front of the IOC headquarters, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Saturday, March 25, 2023. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP)
Ukraine looks to block athletes from competing with Russians

Mar. 31, 2023 08:30 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)
Olympic head slams 'deplorable' government views on Russia

By Graham Dunbar Mar. 30, 2023 10:07 AM EDT

Canadian teen Summer McIntosh sets world swimming record

Mar. 29, 2023 12:30 AM EDT
TORONTO (AP) — Sixteen-year-old Summer McIntosh of Canada set a world record Tuesday night in the women’s 400-meter freestyle. Competing in the...

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 - Fencers compete in the men's individual semifinal Sabre competition at the 2020 Summer Olympics, on July 24, 2021, in Chiba, Japan. Four national fencing federations say the International Fencing Federation has voted to allow athletes from Russia and its ally Belarus to resume competing in international events. They have been excluded for more than a year because of the invasion of Ukraine. The decision appears to allow Russians and Belarusians to compete for qualifying spots for next year’s Paris Olympics. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Hundreds of fencers protest against letting Russians compete

Mar. 28, 2023 05:43 AM EDT