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Jamaican Campbell-Brown bows out in 1st round of 200 in Rio

By PAT GRAHAM
Aug 15, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Highly decorated Jamaican sprinter Veronica Campbell-Brown will see a 200-meter Olympic final from a peculiar spot - the sideline. The two-time Oly...
Big shot: Brazil's Schmidt changed Olympic basketball

By TOM WITHERS
Aug 15, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - That's him, the man who changed international basketball. He's the one who single-handedly beat the United States on its own soil nearly 30 years a...
Dutch down Argentina to keep field hockey 3-peat alive

By FOSTER NIUMATA
Aug 15, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - The Netherlands survived its toughest test yet in Olympic women's field hockey when it edged No. 2-ranked Argentina 3-2 on Monday to push its gold ...
IOC steps up security to prevent Sochi-style manipulation

By STEPHEN WILSON
Aug 15, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - From a battery of surveillance cameras to extra security guards, Olympic officials have taken a series of measures inside Rio's doping lab to preve...
Olympic-goers get an eyeful of Rio's beauty-consumed culture

By PETER PRENGAMAN
Aug 15, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Each morning, 75-year-old Jose Rebamar works his biceps, triceps and quadriceps with stone weights at an outside gym that looks out on Rio de Janei...
Russia's Klishina wins appeal, can compete at Rio Olympics

By JAMES ELLINGWORTH
Aug 15, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - The lone Russian track and field athlete at the Olympics has won her appeal to compete at the Rio de Janeiro Games. The Court of Arbitration for Sp...
Stepanova: If something happens to us, it's not an accident

By EDDIE PELLS
Aug 15, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - The runner who blew the whistle on the doping scandal in Russia fears for her safety and has switched residences after hackers breached a database ...
Some Olympic athletes find grass is greener far from home

By JIM LITKE
Aug 15, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - For Sale: One elite athlete, lightly used. Will swap citizenship, move to your country and even marry to compete for your Olympic team if the price...
Rio holds its breath, then winds roar across Olympic courses

By BERNIE WILSON
Aug 15, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - The Olympic wind gods held their breath, and then exhaled all at once. First there was too little wind, and then too much. Almost as if someone had...
US teen advances in Olympic 400 hurdles despite cold, nerves

By PAT GRAHAM
Aug 15, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - The American teenager was talking as if her time in Rio was done - the competition was just too intimidating, the Olympic atmosphere was too overwh...

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