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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May 23, 2017 7:00 am - SYDNEY (AP) - Rio Olympics 100-meter freestyle gold medalist Kyle Chalmers has withdrawn from July's world swimming championships to undergo surgery for a worsening hear...
Faster, higher, rustier: Medals from Rio Olympics damaged

By LUKE MEREDITH and EDDIE PELLS
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...
Russia facing ban from Paralympics for 2018 Games

By ROB HARRIS
May 22, 2017 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Russia faces the strong possibility of being excluded from a second Paralympics over its state-sponsored doping scheme. The International Paralympic Commit...
Forecast: Germany to top medal table at Pyeongchang Olympics

By STEPHEN WADE
May 22, 2017 7:00 am - If the Pyeongchang Olympics were today, Germany would win the most gold medals and the most medals overall. That was the forecast on Monday from U.S.-based Gracenote, a ...
Mutko agrees Isinbayeva should leave anti-doping agency

The Associated Press
May 19, 2017 7:00 am - MOSCOW (AP) - Russia's top state sports official agrees that Yelena Isinbayeva cannot continue as chair of the scandal-hit Russian Anti-Doping Agency because of a confli...

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