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Canadian gymnast tells of sexual, emotional abuse by coach

By Eddie Pells 42 minutes ago
A former member of the Canadian national gymnastics team wrote a public letter accusing the country's 2016 Olympic coach of climbing into bed and pressing his body...

Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs talks with his fiancee Nicole Daza and his son Antony as he receives a massage at a training center in Rome, Monday, May 23, 2022. This year could be more memorable for Jacobs than his breakout 2021 when he sprinted from virtual unknown to Olympic 100-meter champion then added another surprising gold at the Tokyo Games with Italy's 4x100-meter relay team. Jacobs tells The Associated Press that "winning these next two big events would mean winning everything there is to win in athletics."(AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
AP Interview: Olympic champ Jacobs wants to win 'everything'

By Andrew Dampf 3 hrs ago

11 candidates in weightlifting election amid Olympic crisis

22 hrs ago
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Two American women are among a total of 11 candidates running for president of weightlifting’s troubled governing body, looking to lead...

FILE - Yusra Mardini and Tachlowini Gabriyesos, of the Refugee Olympic Team, carry the Olympic flag during the opening ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, Friday, July 23, 2021. The Olympic Refugee Foundation and the refugee Olympics team are the winners of this year’s Princess of Asturias Award for sports, the Spanish foundation that organizes the prizes said Wednesday, May 25, 2022. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
Refugee Olympic team awarded prestigious Spanish prize

May. 25, 2022 08:21 AM EDT

Antti Pihlakoski, evaluation panel chairman of the World Athletics (WA), center left, and Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike, surrounded by other WA members, pose for a photo before their talk in Tokyo, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. Council member Nawal El Moutawakel, back, from left, Vice President Ximena Restrepo and Director of Competitions & Events Jakob Larsen join the photo session. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)
Tokyo a candidate for track and field world championships

By Stephen Wade May. 25, 2022 12:44 AM EDT

Serbia's Novak Djokovic plays a shot against Japan's Yoshihito Nishioka during their first round match at the French Open tennis tournament in Roland Garros stadium in Paris, France, Monday, May 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
French Open lookahead: Djokovic, Nadal, Alcaraz in action

May. 24, 2022 06:34 PM EDT

FILE - South African long distance athlete Caster Semenya (176) runs on her way to winning the 5,000 meters at the South African national championships in Pretoria, South Africa, April 15, 2021. A British newspaper has reported that double Olympic champion Semenya said she offered to show her body to track officials when she was just 18 years old to prove she was a female. (AP Photo/Christiaan Kotze/File)
Semenya says she offered to show track officials her body

By Gerald Imray May. 23, 2022 07:45 PM EDT

Spain unable to reach deal for 2030 bid on Winter Olympics

May. 23, 2022 06:28 PM EDT
MADRID (AP) — The Spanish regional governments of Catalonia and Aragón have not been able to reach an agreement on a bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics in the Pyrenees...

FILE - Katie Ledecky participates in the women's 800 freestyle during wave 2 of the U.S. Olympic Swim Trials on Saturday, June 19, 2021, in Omaha, Neb. USA Swimming has set the dates for the 2024 Olympic trials, which will be held at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. The governing body announced Monday, May 23, 2022, that the competition to determine the team for the Paris Games will run from June 15-23. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)
USA Swimming sets dates for 2024 Olympic trials

May. 23, 2022 01:07 PM EDT

Cody Simpson competes during the men's 100m butterfly heats at the Australian swimming championships in Adelaide, Wednesday, May 18, 2022. Taking time out from his singing career to focus on swimming has started to pay off for Simpson, who was selected in the Commonwealth Games swim team after placing third in the 100-meter butterfly event at the Australian trials. (Dave Hunt/AAP Image via AP)
Simpson to swim rather than sing at the Commonwealth Games

May. 23, 2022 01:37 AM EDT

FILE - Japanese film director Naomi Kawase speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on  Oct. 23, 2018. The documentary film produced by Kawase about the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics premiered on Monday, May 23, 2022, shown to reporters and other invited guests in the Japanese capital. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
Tokyo Olympic film debuts in Japan; headed next to Cannes

By Stephen Wade And Yuri Kageyama May. 22, 2022 10:07 PM EDT

Will Zalatoris waves after making a putt on the 18th hole during the third round of the PGA Championship golf tournament at Southern Hills Country Club, Saturday, May 21, 2022, in Tulsa, Okla. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
PGA updates | Leaders tee off in final round of PGA

May. 22, 2022 02:49 PM EDT

Swimmer Ariarne Titmus sets 400-meter freestyle world record

May. 22, 2022 06:52 AM EDT
ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) — Olympic gold medalist Ariarne Titmus has broken the women’s 400-meter freestyle world record at the Australian swimming championships. ...

FILE - Atlanta Beat goalkeeper Briana Scurry makes a save late in the second half against the Carolina Courage, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2002, in Cary, N.C.  The U.S. women's national team has not only been wildly successful on the field, the players have also been unabashedly outspoken, using their platform to advocate for equal rights for themselves and others.   (AP Photo/Stan Gilliland, File)
US women's soccer equal pay victory decades in the making

By Anne M. Peterson May. 21, 2022 02:43 AM EDT

Canadian athletes, parents call for culture change in sports

May. 20, 2022 09:09 PM EDT
Scales should be banned from children’s gyms. Parents should be permitted to watch. Rules of acceptable behavior should be posted on gym walls with a toll-free line...

FILE - Connecticut Sun guard Yvonne Anderson, left, drives against New York Liberty forward Natasha Howard, right, in the second half during a WNBA basketball game, Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in New York. Yvonne Anderson understood that making a WNBA roster as an undrafted rookie was going to be tough and getting that chance a decade after she left college would be even tougher. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
Perseverance paying off for older rookies in the WNBA

By Pat Eaton-Robb May. 20, 2022 12:08 PM EDT

IOC reveals more talks with Peng Shuai, plans Europe visit

May. 20, 2022 12:02 PM EDT
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai has continued to speak with Olympic officials since the Beijing Winter Games and wants to visit Europe...

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, center, speaks with young athletes at the Olympics Unleashed session at the Yeronga Park Sports Centre in Brisbane, Australia, Saturday, May 7, 2022. Bach was in Brisbane on Saturday for the first time since the Queensland state capital was awarded the 2032 Olympics. (Jason O'Brien/AAP Image via AP)
Bach says Russia ban is to protect athletes, not punish them

By Graham Dunbar May. 20, 2022 09:08 AM EDT

Zac Stubblety-Cook sets world record in 200 breaststroke

May. 19, 2022 07:33 AM EDT
ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) — Olympic champion Zac Stubblety-Cook set a world record in the men's 200-meter breaststroke at the Australian swimming championships on...

FILE - Johannes Ludwig, of Germany, celebrates winning the gold medal in luge men's single at the 2022 Winter Olympics, on Feb. 6, 2022, in the Yanqing district of Beijing. Ludwig announced his retirement Monday, May 16, 2022, on social media. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)
Olympic luge champion Johannes Ludwig of Germany retires

May. 17, 2022 02:53 PM EDT

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