Olympics
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Japanese PM Abe to attend closing ceremony of Rio Olympics
Aug 05, 2016 7:00 am - TOKYO (AP) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will attend the closing ceremony of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Friday that ...
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Many players to watch outside US in Olympic men's basketball
Aug 05, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - From Kyrie to KD, DeMar to DeMarcus, many players on the U.S. Olympic men's basketball team are so well known to NBA fans they can simply go by fir...
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Olympic road cycling is a grueling, panoramic tour of Rio
Aug 05, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Olympic road cycling races promise to be a grueling, 6-hour showcase featuring everything from the sun-splashed beaches of Copacabana and Ipanema t...
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All these years, surgeries later, Brian Baker makes Olympics
Aug 05, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Brian Baker is not among the collection of highly ranked players and Grand Slam champions playing tennis at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. Baker was ...
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Column: Rio could prove that Olympics are too big to fail
Aug 05, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - On a corner outside the athlete's village, a soldier carrying an automatic weapon tried his best to keep from smiling as he posed for a cameraman t...
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Pressure increases on Brazil's soccer team after opening tie
Aug 05, 2016 7:00 am - BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) - The last thing Brazil's men's soccer team needed in its first game at the Olympics was to leave the field without a win and jeered by fans. The d...
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Italian PM: 2024 Olympics in Rome would defy extremists
Aug 05, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Holding the Olympics in Rome in 2024 would send a message of defiance to terrorists trying to cower people into a "life of fear" and rob them of th...
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Women ready for kick off when rugby returns to the Olympics
Aug 05, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - It'll be a first for women, and the first time in 92 years for the sport when the Olympic rugby sevens tournament kicks off with a match between Fr...
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WADA removes Kenya from non-compliant list
Aug 05, 2016 7:00 am - MONTREAL (AP) - Kenya has been removed from the World Anti-Doping Agency's list of "non-compliant" countries, three months after WADA described the nation's anti-doping ...
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Brazilian musicians delight at Rio 2016 Opening Ceremony
Aug 05, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Music is a central part of Brazilian culture, and many of the country's stars performed during in the opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games in...