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Some Paralympic athletes are competing in multiple sports

By EMILY GREENWOOD
Sep 12, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Tatyana McFadden wanted to go to Russia, where she was born and lived until age 6. So she took up Nordic skiing, qualified for the 2014 U.S. Paraly...
CONI: If Rome 2024 bid dropped, candidacy unlikely for years

The Associated Press
Sep 12, 2016 7:00 am - ROME (AP) - Italian Olympic Committee president Giovanni Malago says that if Rome's bid for the 2024 Games is rejected by Mayor Virginia Raggi, a new candidacy wouldn't ...
IOC decides against further punishment for Ryan Lochte

The Associated Press
Sep 12, 2016 7:00 am - LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - Ryan Lochte will not receive separate punishment from the International Olympic Committee for lying about being robbed at gunpoint during th...
Paralympics entertain bigger-than-expected crowds in Rio

By KENNINGTON LLOYD SMITH III
Sep 12, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Three weeks ago, organizers and event fans were worried that the 2016 Paralympics would not be well-attended. But when SÃ£o Paulo resident Marco Fu...
Unmanned hot-air balloon hits Olympic arena; minor damage

The Associated Press
Sep 12, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - A small, unmanned hot-air balloon crashed into the roof of one of the arenas in Rio's Olympic Park on Monday, causing minor fire and water damage b...
Table tennis gave a once-homeless teen a path to Paralympics

By EMILY GIAMBALVO
Sep 12, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - A few months before U.S. table tennis player Tahl Leibovitz left his home in Queens, N.Y., for the Rio Paralympic Games, his wife, Dawn, heard a ba...
American women sweep in triathlon's Paralympic debut

By EMILY GREENWOOD
Sep 12, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Before racing in the women's Paralympic triathlon Sunday, U.S. athletes Allysa Seely, Hailey Danisewicz and Melissa Stockwell talked about it being...
Minnesota hometown celebrates Olympic silver medalist Post

The Associated Press
Sep 11, 2016 7:00 am - ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) - Olympic silver medalist Alise Post has been honored with a homecoming parade in Minnesota. Post won the silver medal in women's BMX cycling at th...
Paralympian Vervoort prepared to take own life _ but not yet

By STEPHEN WADE
Sep 11, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Marieke Vervoort lives with nearly unbroken pain. The Belgian has an incurable, degenerative spinal disease, sleeps only 10 minutes some nights, an...
Bach defends decision to miss Paralympics opening

The Associated Press
Sep 11, 2016 7:00 am - ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) - International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach is quoted as saying his absence from the opening of the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro h...

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