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Female sports pioneers carry message to Vatican conference

By ANDREW DAMPF
Oct 07, 2016 7:00 am - VATICAN CITY (AP) - One in four IOC members are women, but only three are on the 14-member IOC executive board. Two out of 211 soccer federation presidents are female, a...
Doping Discord: Olympic summit to seek unity in drug fight

By STEPHEN WILSON
Oct 07, 2016 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - With the Russian doping scandal still causing bitter discord across the international sports world, Olympic leaders meet Saturday to consider ways of revam...
LA2024 tweaks plans to bid for Olympics in Los Angeles

The Associated Press
Oct 07, 2016 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - In another change to the original plan, the press center for Los Angeles' bid to host the 2024 Olympics would be relocated to the University of Southe...
IOC: Pyeongchang's biggest challenge is promoting the games

The Associated Press
Oct 07, 2016 7:00 am - PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) - Pyeongchang's preparations for the 2018 Winter Olympics are on course but South Korean organizers must step up efforts to promote the gam...
French PM pledges 1 billion euros to Paris 2024 bid

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN
Oct 07, 2016 7:00 am - LE BOURGET, France (AP) - French Prime Minister Manuel Valls pledged one billion euros ($1.1 billion) of support from the government for Paris' bid to host the 2024 Olym...
36 Olympic boxing judges, referees barred from future events

The Associated Press
Oct 06, 2016 7:00 am - LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - Three dozen boxing referees and judges who officiated at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics have been barred from working at further world-level ev...
Paralympics chief: Lot to be done before Russia readmitted

By ANDREW DAMPF
Oct 06, 2016 7:00 am - VATICAN CITY (AP) - Russian athletes still have a long way to go before they can be readmitted to the Paralympics, according to the head of the International Paralympic ...
Lab director to AP: Anti-doping discord harms clean sports

By EDDIE PELLS
Oct 06, 2016 7:00 am - One of the world's leading anti-doping scientists cringes at finger-pointing toward the World Anti-Doping Agency by leaders in international sports and tells The Associa...
Canada pole vaulter Shawn Barber tests positive for cocaine

The Associated Press
Oct 06, 2016 7:00 am - OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) - Star Canadian pole vaulter Shawn Barber tested positive for cocaine before the Rio Olympics following a tryst with a woman he met on Craigslist. T...
New referendum attempt on Budapest 2024 bid gets initial OK

The Associated Press
Oct 06, 2016 7:00 am - BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - The Budapest election committee has approved a journalist's initiative to hold a city referendum on the Hungarian capital's bid to host the 2024...

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