Track and field
FILE - Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, of Belarus, runs in the women's 100-meter run at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, July 30, 2021. The Belarusian track coach who tried to force the sprinter out of the Tokyo Olympics and back to Belarus after she was critical of the team has been charged with breaching the sport's integrity standards. The Athletics Integrity Unit announced the charges against Yury Maisevich on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)
Belarus coach who removed sprinter from Olympics charged

By Eddie Pells Jan. 19, 2023 11:45 AM EST

FILE - Russia's Natalya Antyukh, right, powers ahead of United States' Lashinda Demus to win gold in the women's 400-meter hurdles final during the athletics in the Olympic Stadium at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012. Russian 400-meter hurdler Natalya Antyukh will lose her gold medal from the 2012 London Games due to doping, putting American Lashinda Demus in position to be named the champion more than a decade after the race. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa De Olza, File)
Russian hurdler stripped of 2012 Olympics gold for doping

Dec. 21, 2022 11:21 AM EST

Long jumper accused of false information to get Olympic spot

Dec. 09, 2022 06:23 AM EST
MONACO (AP) — A long jumper and two officials from Albania could face bans after they were accused of submitting false information that helped the athlete get a spot...

FILE - Ukraine's Yuri Cheban celebrates his gold medal in the men's canoe single 200m final during the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro on Aug. 18, 2016. Cheban, one of Ukraine's most decorated Olympians, told The Associated Press in an email exchange Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022, that he is auctioning his medals — two golds and a bronze — in hopes of raising a six-figure donation to contribute to the war effort in his native land. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)
Ukrainian Olympian auctioning medals to help war effort

By Eddie Pells Nov. 30, 2022 04:39 PM EST

FILE - A fan of Kenya holds up a national flag during the final in the women's 5000-meter run at the World Athletics Championships on July 23, 2022, in Eugene, Ore. World Athletics President Seb Coe said Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022 that reports about a possible full-scale ban for Kenya due to a protracted doping crisis were misguided, and that increased funding and vigilance from the Kenyan government persuaded authorities to stop short of the most radical sanctions. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)
Kenya avoids track doping ban; Russia gets mixed news

By Eddie Pells Nov. 30, 2022 12:42 PM EST

FILE - Kenyan athletes train together just after dawn on a dusty track in Kaptagat Forest in western Kenya, on Jan. 30, 2016. The threat of an imminent ban by track and field governing body World Athletics, which would likely have repercussions for a number of medal contenders at next year's world championships and the 2024 Paris Olympics was conceded by the Kenyan sports ministry in a statement issued on Thursday, Nov. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
Kenya faces threat of athletics ban for doping 'crisis'

By Gerald Imray Nov. 25, 2022 03:44 AM EST

FILE - Garrett Scantling, of the United States, makes an attempt in the shot put competition in the men's heptathlon at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, on March 18, 2022. Scantling, the U.S. decathlon champion, will miss the Paris Olympics due to a ban imposed after he falsified an email in trying to cover up a missed doping test. The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency said Friday, Nov. 18, 2022, that the 29-year-old, who won national championships earlier this year, had accepted a three-year ban retroactive to June 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)
US decathlon champ out for Paris after missed doping tests

By Eddie Pells Nov. 18, 2022 03:18 PM EST

US marathon trials for 2024 Olympics will be run in Orlando

Nov. 08, 2022 12:15 PM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The 2024 United States Olympic marathon trials will be held along the streets in Orlando, Florida. USA Track and Field announced...

FILE - Albert Korir of Kenya crosses the finish line first in the men's division of the New York City Marathon in New York, Sunday, Nov. 7, 2021. Korir is looking to defend his New York City Marathon title when he races on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
NYC Marathon champion Albert Korir looks to defend title

By Doug Feinberg Nov. 03, 2022 03:11 PM EDT

Sportlight-Week Ahead, Nov. 4-10

By The Associated Press Nov. 03, 2022 10:00 AM EDT
Nov. 4 1934 — The Detroit Lions rush for an NFL-record 426 yards in a 40-7 rout of the Pittsburgh Pirates. The only bright spot for the Pirates is...

FILE - Russia's Natalya Antyukh, right, powers ahead of United States' Lashinda Demus to win gold in the women's 400-meter hurdles final during the athletics in the Olympic Stadium at the 2012 Summer Olympics, London, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012. Russian runner Natalya Antyukh was disqualified on Monday, Oct. 24, 2022 from her 400-meter hurdles win at the 2012 London Olympics for doping, and Lashinda Demus of the United States is set to be upgraded to the gold medal. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa De Olza, File)
Russian runner stripped of 2012 Olympics title for doping

Oct. 24, 2022 12:35 PM EDT

FILE - In this Aug. 11, 1936, file photo, America's Jesse Owens, center, salutes during the presentation of his gold medal for the long jump, alongside silver medalist Luz Long, right, of Germany, and bronze medalist Naoto Tajima, of Japan, during the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. The silver medal captured by Luz Long, the German long jumper who befriended Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, sold at auction for $488,000, a sum the auction house said was a record price for a publicly sold second-place prize. (AP Photo/File)
Luz Long's Olympic silver auctioned for nearly $500K

Oct. 18, 2022 11:20 AM EDT

FILE - Kamalpreet Kaur, of India, competes during the qualification round of the women's discus throw at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 31, 2021, in Tokyo. Olympic discus finalist Kamalpreet Kaur was banned for three years for doping with an anabolic steroid, track and field’s Athletics Integrity Unit said Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)
Olympic discus finalist Kaur of India gets 3-year doping ban

Oct. 12, 2022 10:13 AM EDT

British sprinter Chijindu Ujah gets 22-month doping ban

Oct. 10, 2022 07:19 AM EDT
LONDON (AP) — British sprinter Chijindu Ujah was banned for 22 months on Monday after testing positive for two prohibited substances during the Tokyo Olympics last...

FILE - In this Aug. 11, 1936, file photo, America's Jesse Owens, center, salutes during the presentation of his gold medal for the long jump on, alongside silver medalist Luz Long, right, of Germany, and bronze medalist Naoto Tajima, of Japan, during the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. Long's family has decided to auction his silver medal and other collectibles from his career, which was cut short when he was killed in World War II in 1943. (AP Photo/File)
Jesse Owens friend Luz Long's silver medal up for auction

By Eddie Pells Oct. 06, 2022 04:44 PM EDT

Paris 2024 Games' chief Tony Estanguet speaks during a media conference at the City Hall in Paris, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. The marathon will start from Paris City Hall and wind past famed landmarks, including the Eiffel Tower, before leaving the capital and beginning its upward wind to Versailles, the former town of kings with its spectacular palace, to the southwest. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
Marathon course for Paris Olympics announced; lots of uphill

By John Leicester Oct. 05, 2022 11:01 AM EDT

Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge crosses the line to win the Berlin Marathon in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022. Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge has bettered his own world record in the Berlin Marathon. Kipchoge clocked 2:01:09 on Sunday to shave 30 seconds off his previous best-mark of 2:01:39 from the same course in 2018. (AP Photo/Christoph Soeder)
Kipchoge clocks 2:01:09 for world record in Berlin Marathon

By Ciarán Fahey Sep. 25, 2022 05:33 AM EDT

FILE - Sebastian Coe poses for the media at the Olympic Stadium, in London, on March, 15, 2011. The governing body of track and field acted Friday against suspected systematic cheating in qualifying events for the Tokyo Olympics and age manipulation of athletes up to 20 years ago. “The integrity of our sport is our highest priority at World Athletics,” federation president Sebastian Coe said in a statement. “Without it, we don’t have a sport.” ( AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)
Track body acts on suspected systematic cheating in results

By Graham Dunbar Sep. 23, 2022 11:20 AM EDT

FILE - China's Dongpeng Shi competes in a heat of the 110m Hurdles at the World Athletics Championships in Daegu, South Korea, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. The governing body of track and field has acted against suspected systematic cheating in results from qualifying events for the Tokyo Olympics and age manipulation of athletes up to 20 years ago. Chinese athlete Shi Dongpeng was stripped of his silver medal in 110-meter hurdles at the 2002 world junior championships. Shi went on to compete at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics but did not reach either final in his event. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)
South Korea Athletics Worlds 8/27/2011

Sep. 23, 2022 11:16 AM EDT

Commuters wearing face masks walk along a street in the central business district in Beijing, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Track's world indoors in China postponed again to 2025

Sep. 01, 2022 06:55 AM EDT