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Budapest assembly to vote Wednesday on revoking Olympic bid

By PABLO GORONDI
Feb 24, 2017 6:00 am - BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - The Budapest city assembly will vote Wednesday on a motion to withdraw the city's bid to host the 2024 Olympics. Mayor Istvan Tarlos, Prime Mini...
Wang, Liu win ice dancing gold medal at Asian Winter Games

By JIM ARMSTRONG
Feb 24, 2017 6:00 am - SAPPORO, Japan (AP) - Skating to "New York, New York," Wang Shiyue and Liu Xinyu held onto their lead from the short dance to win the gold medal in ice dancing on Friday...
Snow volleyball hopes to stake claim in Winter Olympics

By JIMMY GOLEN
Feb 24, 2017 6:00 am - Beach volleyball is moving to the mountains and swapping its sand for snow. A spinoff of the sun-splashed sport familiar to Summer Olympic fans and seaside frolickers, s...
2024: A tale of two cities and an uncertain Olympic future

By EDDIE PELLS
Feb 23, 2017 6:00 am - Olympic leader Thomas Bach's grand plan was to streamline the Olympics, cut costs and encourage more cities to try to host the games. Judged by the first round of biddin...
For naturalized Dalton, the puck stops in South Korea

By JIM ARMSTRONG
Feb 23, 2017 6:00 am - SAPPORO, Japan (AP) - Growing up in rural southern Ontario, Matt Dalton never figured that his career path in professional hockey would take him to South Korea. Dalton, ...
Winter Asian Games are very topical in tropical East Timor

By JIM ARMSTRONG
Feb 23, 2017 6:00 am - SAPPORO, Japan (AP) - For Alpine skier Yohan Goutt Goncalves, the chance to be East Timor's sole representative at the Asian Winter Games was too good to pass up, even i...
MLB players union head says 2020 Olympics difficult

By RICH DUBROFF
Feb 23, 2017 6:00 am - SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) - The head of the Major League Baseball Players Association says it will be difficult for big leaguers to participate at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Bas...
South Korea's Choi leads short program at Asian Winter Games

By JIM ARMSTRONG
Feb 23, 2017 6:00 am - SAPPORO, Japan (AP) - Choi Da-bin won the women's short program in figure skating at the Asian Winter Games on Thursday. The South Korean, fifth at last week's Four Cont...
David Douillet running for French Olympic committee top job

The Associated Press
Feb 22, 2017 6:00 am - PARIS (AP) - Former Olympic judo champion David Douillet will run for the French Olympic committee presidency later this year. Douillet, a gold medalist at the 1996 and ...
South Korea dominates short track speedskating in Sapporo

The Associated Press
Feb 22, 2017 6:00 am - SAPPORO, Japan (AP) - South Korea won three gold medals in short track speedskating on Wednesday at the Asian Winter Games. Seo Yi-ra won the men's 1,000 meters to kick ...

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