Olympics
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Reality check: USOC on board with made-for-TV scouting camp
May 31, 2017 7:00 am - DENVER (AP) - America's got talent, and the leaders at the U.S. Olympic Committee are turning on the TV cameras to find it. The quest for gold and America's insatiable a...
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Tokyo organizers reach agreement on allocation of 2020 costs
May 31, 2017 7:00 am - TOKYO (AP) - Organizers of the Tokyo Olympics reached a broad agreement Wednesday on the allocation of costs for the 2020 Games with the metropolitan, national and local...
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AOC media official Tancred guilty of "disreputable conduct"
May 31, 2017 7:00 am - SYDNEY (AP) - Australian Olympic Committee media and communications director Mike Tancred was found to have exhibited "disreputable conduct" in his dealings with a forme...
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Blanco re-elected president of Spanish Olympic Committee
May 31, 2017 7:00 am - MADRID (AP) - Alejandro Blanco has been elected to his fourth consecutive term as president of the Spanish Olympic Committee. Blanco will remain in charge until 2021, be...
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Antonova upgraded to Olympic discus silver, Ukraine says
May 25, 2017 7:00 am - KIEV, Ukraine (AP) - The Ukrainian Athletics Federation says its discus thrower Olena Antonova has been upgraded to an Olympic silver medal from the 2008 Beijing Games a...
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Column: Just say no when it comes to hosting Olympics
May 24, 2017 7:00 am - It never figured to end well for Rio. Just hosting the Olympics took everything out of the city. Trying to recover from them may be impossible. Nine months after hosting...
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Rio Olympic planning assailed for 'white elephant' venues
May 23, 2017 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - A federal prosecutor looking into last year's Rio de Janeiro Olympics says that many of the venues "are white elephants" that were built with "no p...
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Putin says whistleblowing on doping echoes Stalin's purges
May 23, 2017 7:00 am - MOSCOW (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that plans to encourage athletes to give evidence about doping remind him of denunciations during Josef Stali...
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Olympic 100-meter swim champion to have heart surgery
May 23, 2017 7:00 am - SYDNEY (AP) - Rio Olympics 100-meter freestyle gold medalist Kyle Chalmers has withdrawn from July's world swimming championships to undergo surgery for a worsening hear...
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Faster, higher, rustier: Medals from Rio Olympics damaged
May 23, 2017 7:00 am - Kyle Snyder made history at the Rio Olympics by becoming the youngest American wrestler to win a gold medal. The medal will soon be history as well, to be replaced by th...