SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean organizers say the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang will help promote peace on the divided Korean peninsula.
Kim Jin-sun, head of the local organizing committee, spoke Friday at a ceremony to launch the new l…
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Friday he would be ”the first to applaud” if Istanbul is chosen to host the 2020 Olympics.
Tokyo and Madrid are also bidding for the games.
”If Istanbul wins the right to host the Olymp…
LONDON (AP) — Olympic officials and scientific experts will meet in China next month to review the progress in developing a test for gene doping, the potential future of cheating in sports.
IOC medical commission chairman Arne Ljungqvist said researc…
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Georgia has confirmed it will take part in next year’s Sochi Olympics in Russia.
Georgia’s participation in the Sochi Games had been in doubt because of lingering resentment about the brief war between the countries in 2008.
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MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian track and field federation says Olympic discus silver medalist Darya Pishchalnikova has been banned for 10 years for doping and will be stripped of her medal.
The ban annuls Pishchalnikova’s results from May 20, 2012, includ…
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A cross-border bid for San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, to host the 2024 Summer Olympics appeared dead before arrival Tuesday when the U.S. Olympic Committee said international rules don’t allow two countries to mount a joint candidacy…
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Teenagers Jessica Parratto and Steele Johnson won their second titles in two days Sunday during the final day of the U.S. national diving championships.
Parratto, the 18-year-old Indianapolis diver who won the women’s 10-meter…
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — U.S. Olympian Troy Dumais added to his career medal count Saturday, winning the men’s 3-meter springboard at the U.S. national diving championships.
Dumais, the bronze medalist in the men’s synchronized 3-meter springboard at …
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — The New England Patriots have agreed to terms with Olympic silver medalist Jeff Demps, who played running back at Florida but was not drafted by an NFL team because he said he wanted to focus on his track career.
Patriots pla…
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Olympic champion Sanya Richards-Ross edged Botswana’s Amantle Montsho to win the women’s 400 meters at the DN Gala Diamond League meeting on Friday.
Richards-Ross moved in front of Montsho down the stretch and finished in 49.89 secon…