MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree banning demonstrations and rallies for two and a half months in Sochi around the 2014 Winter Olympics.
The Rossiyskaya Gazeta, the official government newspaper, published the preside…
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TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will lead Tokyo’s delegation to Argentina for the Sept. 7 vote on the host city of the 2020 Olympics.
Tokyo is competing against Istanbul and Madrid. Prime Ministers Mariano Rajoy of Spain and Recep Tay…
TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo Governor Naoki Inose says a leak of highly radioactive water at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant will not affect Tokyo’s bid to host the 2020 Olympics.
About 80,000 gallons of contaminated water leaked from one of the tan…
LONDON (AP) — The Russian government assured the IOC on Thursday that it will not discriminate against homosexuals during the Sochi Olympics, while defending the law against gay ”propaganda” that has provoked an international backlash.
The IOC rece…
SYDNEY (AP) — The Australian Olympic Committee has decided not to impose any further sanctions on the men’s freestyle relay swim team for the use of the sleeping tablet Stilnox at the London Olympics.
AOC chief John Coates said Friday that the penalt…
Based on Associated Press phone interviews, selected suggestions from Olympic athletes and a sport official regarding Russia’s anti-gay laws and the constraints they pose:
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”It would be wonderful if all the athletes stayed in the village and had t…
BEIJING (AP) — China’s anti-doping agency says eight athletes have been caught using performance-enhancing drugs in the run-up to the country’s key national sports competition.
The athletes represented a variety of sports and were split evenly betwee…
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Neighbors, an ex-girlfriend, a member of a firearms club and a former soccer player who claims Oscar Pistorius threatened him are all named among the 107 potential state witnesses for the double-amputee Olympian’s murder trial.
Pr…
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The families of Oscar Pistorius and his slain girlfriend are in contact, a lawyer for Reeva Steenkamp’s parents said Tuesday.
The communication between the two families is over a possible out-of-court settlement that would compens…
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — A look at the Oscar Pistorius case after the double-amputee Olympian was indicted on a charge of premeditated murder Monday in girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp’s killing:
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INDICTMENT:
Pistorius was indicted for premeditated…