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LA mayor ponders 2028 Games in exchange for youth funding

The Associated Press
Jun 01, 2017 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - The mayor of Los Angeles is talking to Olympic leaders about having his city wait until 2028 to host the Summer Games in exchange for funding for yout...
Reality check: USOC on board with made-for-TV scouting camp

By EDDIE PELLS
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...
Tokyo organizers reach agreement on allocation of 2020 costs

The Associated Press
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...
AOC media official Tancred guilty of "disreputable conduct"

The Associated Press
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...
Blanco re-elected president of Spanish Olympic Committee

The Associated Press
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...
Antonova upgraded to Olympic discus silver, Ukraine says

The Associated Press
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...
Column: Just say no when it comes to hosting Olympics

By TIM DAHLBERG
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...
Rio Olympic planning assailed for 'white elephant' venues

By STEPHEN WADE and FILIPE de ALMEIDA
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...
Putin says whistleblowing on doping echoes Stalin's purges

By JAMES ELLINGWORTH
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...
Olympic 100-meter swim champion to have heart surgery

The Associated Press
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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