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IOC approves venues for 5 new sports in 2020 Tokyo Games

By STEPHEN WILSON
Dec 07, 2016 6:00 am - LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - Yokohama Stadium will host the baseball and softball competition at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Yokohama was among the venues approved Wednesda...
Isinbayeva to oversee Russian anti-doping agency

By JAMES ELLINGWORTH
Dec 07, 2016 6:00 am - MOSCOW (AP) - Former Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva has been chosen to chair the new supervisory board of the Russian anti-doping agency, which is struggl...
IOC extends provisional measures against Russia

By STEPHEN WILSON
Dec 07, 2016 6:00 am - LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - Two days before the release of a new report into Russian doping, the IOC on Wednesday extended the provisional sanctions imposed on the coun...
Cheerleading, Muay Thai get provisional IOC recognition

The Associated Press
Dec 06, 2016 6:00 am - LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - Cheerleading and Thai kickboxing have made their way into the Olympic movement. The International Cheer Union and the International Federati...
Column: Promise from Los Angeles is an Olympics on the cheap

By TIM DAHLBERG
Dec 06, 2016 6:00 am - The last time Los Angeles hosted an Olympics, the city won the games largely because it promised to do them on the cheap. The 1984 Games were a success, even with the So...
IOC: Rio Olympics were 'most perfect imperfect games'

By STEPHEN WILSON
Dec 06, 2016 6:00 am - LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - A few months after the closing ceremony in Rio de Janeiro, IOC officials have a new tagline for South America's first Olympics: "The most pe...
Head of IOC inquiry into Russian doping steps down

By STEPHEN WILSON
Dec 06, 2016 6:00 am - LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - The former French judge heading an IOC investigation into Russian doping stepped down on Tuesday, three days before the release of a new rep...
Bach, Reedie clear air over Russian doping scandal

By STEPHEN WILSON
Dec 05, 2016 6:00 am - LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - With another report on Russian doping looming at the end of this week, the presidents of the IOC and World Anti-Doping Agency met Monday to ...
Sammy Lee, 2-time Olympic diving champion, dies at 96

The Associated Press
Dec 03, 2016 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Sammy Lee, a two-time Olympic gold medal-winning diver who later mentored four-time Olympic diving champion Greg Louganis, has died. He was 96. The Un...
IOC will not sign off on Tokyo's $20b budget for 2020 Games

By JIM ARMSTRONG
Dec 02, 2016 6:00 am - TOKYO (AP) - Calling Tokyo's proposed $20 billion budget unacceptable, IOC vice president John Coates urged Japanese organizers on Friday to find ways to make the 2020 O...

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