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Renzi: Italy will look to 2028 if Rome Olympic bid rejected

The Associated Press
Sep 01, 2016 7:00 am - ROME (AP) - Premier Matteo Renzi says Italy will bid with a different city for 2028 if Rome's mayor rejects the capital's candidacy for the 2024 Olympics. Renzi tells Rt...
Olympians visit St. Francis High School in Wheaton

By Jessica Cilella
Sep 01, 2016 1:00 am - The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win, but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph, but the struggle. Those words...
Swiss supreme court rejects Russian Paralympic ban appeal

The Associated Press
Aug 31, 2016 7:00 am - LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - Switzerland's supreme court says it has dismissed Russia's appeal to compete at the Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro. The Swiss Federal Tribuna...
Boxing body pursues sanctions against Olympic refs, judges

The Associated Press
Aug 31, 2016 7:00 am - LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - The International Boxing Association is pursuing disciplinary action against the referees and judges sent home from the Olympics in Rio de J...
4 athletes stripped of medals from 2008 Beijing Games

The Associated Press
Aug 31, 2016 7:00 am - LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - Eight years later, more athletes continue to be stripped of medals from the Beijing Olympics because of positive doping tests. Four athletes...
Anti-doping group seeks reform of 'deeply damaged' system

The Associated Press
Aug 31, 2016 7:00 am - COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Top officials of the IOC and other sporting bodies would be banned from being members of anti-doping agencies under new proposals for tackling...
IOC may consider suspension of Kenya's Olympic body

The Associated Press
Aug 30, 2016 7:00 am - LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - The IOC says it may be forced to consider sanctions against Kenya after its national Olympic committee was disbanded. The International Olym...
Brazil releases Olympic official on bail, probe continues

The Associated Press
Aug 30, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Brazilian authorities say that senior Olympic official Patrick Hickey has been released from prison on bail while a Summer Games ticket-scalping pr...
Lochte mum on Rio return, plugs 'Dancing with the Stars' gig

The Associated Press
Aug 30, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Ryan Lochte isn't saying whether he'll return to Brazil to face a charge of filing a false police report over a gas station encounter during the Olympics...
Kenyan Olympic officials subjects of criminal investigation

The Associated Press
Aug 29, 2016 7:00 am - NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Kenya is risking sanctions from the IOC after the sports minister said he had disbanded the national Olympic body and three of its senior officials...

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