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Los Angeles, Paris await Olympic inspectors in 2024 race

By GRAHAM DUNBAR
May 08, 2017 7:00 am - GENEVA (AP) - Los Angeles and Paris, both already seen as winning options for the 2024 Games, await their Olympic inspectors this week. The cities will host three-day vi...
Coates coasts to win in Australian Olympic Committee vote

By DENNIS PASSA
May 06, 2017 7:00 am - IOC vice president John Coates' first test of his Australian Olympic Committee presidency in nearly three decades turned out to be not much of a contest. Regardless of h...
Olympic swim champion Adolph Kiefer dies at 98

By Beth Harris Associated Press
May 06, 2017 1:00 am - Lake County resident Adolph Kiefer, the 100-meter backstroke champion at the 1936 Berlin Games who was America's oldest living Olympic gold medalist in any sport, has di...
Putin hints at Russian desire to bid for Summer Olympics

By CHRIS LEHOURITES
May 05, 2017 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Russia seems to be gearing up for another Olympic bid, according to Vladimir Putin. The Russian president told Olympic historian David Miller in an exclusi...
Transcript of David Miller's interview with Vladimir Putin

The Associated Press
May 05, 2017 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Olympic historian David Miller put several questions to Russian President Vladimir Putin related to both the Olympics and the country's doping situation. M...
Olympic gold medalist Diamond loses gun ownership rights

The Associated Press
May 05, 2017 7:00 am - SYDNEY (AP) - Two-time Olympic shooting gold medalist Michael Diamond has been convicted of driving and firearms charges and his gun license has been revoked for 10 year...
Kenya Olympic committee elections called off at last minute

The Associated Press
May 05, 2017 7:00 am - NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - The Kenyan Olympic committee elections were called off on Friday on the morning they were supposed to take place after one of the sports federation...
LA 2024 bid won't shun Olympic powerbroker accused of bribes

By ROB HARRIS
May 04, 2017 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - When there's an Olympic bid to be won, Casey Wasserman can't risk putting off any voters as Los Angeles challenges Paris for the 2024 Games. That means con...
IOC VP Coates confident ahead of Australian Olympic vote

By DENNIS PASSA
May 04, 2017 7:00 am - Australian Olympic Committee president John Coates says he's confident heading into Saturday's first test of his domestic leadership in nearly 30 years, a vote that coul...
IOC vows strengthened cooperation with McLaren, WADA

The Associated Press
May 02, 2017 7:00 am - LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - The International Olympic Committee is vowing strengthened cooperation with Richard McLaren, the investigator who uncovered evidence of stat...

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