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Swiss Olympic body supports Sion bid for 2026 Winter Games

The Associated Press
Mar 07, 2017 6:00 am - BERN, Switzerland (AP) - Swiss Olympic officials will support Sion's bid to host the 2026 Winter Games. Switzerland's Olympic committee says its executive board agreed...
Fredericks leaves 2024 Olympic bid role, waives vote

By GRAHAM DUNBAR
Mar 07, 2017 6:00 am - GENEVA (AP) - IOC member Frank Fredericks has stepped down from his role overseeing the 2024 Olympic bidding process, days after a $300,000 payment from a banned track o...
Local residents to compete in Special Olympics in Austria

By Eileen O. Daday
Mar 06, 2017 10:00 pm - Arlington Heights, Bartlett residents to compete in Special Olympics World Games
Americans, British firming up plans for multisport event

By ROB HARRIS
Mar 06, 2017 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - American and British Olympic leaders will firm up plans for a multisport event between the countries at a meeting in New York later this month. The trans-A...
Fredericks turns himself over to IOC ethics commission

The Associated Press
Mar 03, 2017 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Former Olympic sprinter Frankie Fredericks has turned himself over to the IOC ethics commission following a French newspaper report linking him to a paymen...
Coates: 2020 Olympic golf venue must be nondiscriminatory

By JIM ARMSTRONG
Mar 02, 2017 6:00 am - TOKYO (AP) - The club that is set to host the 2020 Olympic golf tournament must change its policy of excluding women as full members or the event will go elsewhere, IOC ...
Gymnast Simone Biles to speak at Willow Creek this weekend

By Doug T. Graham
Mar 02, 2017 12:00 am - Editor's note: This story has been corrected to state that Simone Biles will speak at the 9 a.m. service Sunday. She tumbled, vaulted and flipped her way to a U.S. ...
Budapest assembly passes motion to withdraw 2024 Olympic bid

By PABLO GORONDI
Mar 01, 2017 6:00 am - BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - Budapest's assembly approved a motion Wednesday to withdraw the city's bid for the 2024 Olympics. The decision leaves Los Angeles and Paris as t...
Column: Phelps speaks out on doping, but what took so long?

By TIM DAHLBERG
Mar 01, 2017 6:00 am - It wasn't exactly Lilly King wagging a finger at a dirty Russian, then going on to beat her for a swimming gold medal in Rio. Yet there was Michael Phelps - the semi-off...
IOC strips Ukrainian of 2008 Olympic medal for doping

The Associated Press
Mar 01, 2017 6:00 am - LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - The bronze medalist in women's modern pentathlon at the 2008 Beijing Olympics has been disqualified for doping. The IOC says Viktoriya Teres...

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