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Italy's Olympic medalists plead with Rome mayor on 2024 bid

The Associated Press
Sep 08, 2016 7:00 am - ROME (AP) - Italian medalists from the Rio de Janeiro Olympics wrote to Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi on Thursday pleading with her not to drop the capital's bid for the 202...
Lochte banned through June 2017, loses $100,000 in bonuses

By EDDIE PELLS
Sep 08, 2016 7:00 am - Ryan Lochte will forfeit $100,000 and a chance to swim at next year's world championships as part of the penalty for his drunken encounter at a gas station in Brazil dur...
US swimmer Jessica Long opens with a silver at Paralympics

By JAMIE HAN
Sep 08, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - U.S. swimmer Jessica Long hugged Australian Lakeisha Patterson when the women's 400 freestyle final was over and offered congratulations. Long had ...
Rio police want IOC head to explain Ireland's games tickets

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON
Sep 08, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Rio de Janeiro police investigating a ticket-scalping case want the IOC president to explain why Ireland's allocation of Summer Games tickets went ...
Belarusian booted from Paralympics for carrying Russian flag

By STEPHEN WADE
Sep 08, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - The Paralympic Games already has its first political protest, right at the beginning with the opening ceremony. A Belarusian sports ministry employ...
IOC will cooperate with Brazilian Olympic ticket probe

The Associated Press
Sep 07, 2016 7:00 am - LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - The International Olympic Committee promised to cooperate Wednesday with Brazilian authorities in the ticket scalping investigation that has...
Paralympics: As games begin, athletes want progress

By EMILY GIAMBALVO
Sep 07, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - At the 2012 London Paralympics, athletes competed in venues full of spectators who cheered from the first event to the last. Lines for tickets exte...
Olympic champion Biles to release autobiography Nov. 15

The Associated Press
Sep 06, 2016 7:00 am - GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - Four-time Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles is ready to tell the full story behind her rise from prodigy to champion. Biles, who won five med...
Organizers: Ticket sales up, Rio is ready for Paralympics

By KENDRA HANSEY
Sep 06, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - With the Rio Paralympics set to begin Wednesday, organizers say ticket sales have jumped from around 200,000 to 1.6 million, and a spirit of optimi...
Brazil charges IOC's Hickey, 9 more on ticket scalping case

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON
Sep 06, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Brazilian prosecutors have filed charges against a high-ranking Olympic official in connection to a ticket-scalping case that unfolded during last ...

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