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Congress urged to pass anti-doping bill before Olympics

WASHINGTON – The head of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency urged Congress on Wednesday to pass a bill criminalizing international doping conspiracies before this summer’s Tokyo Olympics, saying it...

DATE: Feb 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Sports

World Anti-Doping Agency wants public hearing for Russian doping case

GENEVA – Seeking more scrutiny for a blockbuster case, the World Anti-Doping Agency wants a rare public hearing when sport’s highest court judges a four-year slate of punishments faced by Ru...

DATE: Feb 4, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Virus in China affects sports events, Olympic qualifiers

Indoor world championships pushed back until 2021

DATE: Jan 29, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

World Anti-Doping Agency shuts down Moscow lab again

MONTREAL – The World Anti-Doping Agency ordered Moscow’s drug-testing laboratory to be shut down again Wednesday. That followed WADA’s finding last month that data stored at the l...

DATE: Jan 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Protests or not, politics and Olympics are intertwined

More than a half-century later, Tommie Smith and John Carlos are cemented into Olympic lore – their names enshrined in the Olympic Hall of Fame in the United States, their portrait an indeli...

DATE: Jan 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Top young US men’s players uncertain for Olympic soccer

CHICAGO – If the U.S. qualifies for this year’s Olympic men’s soccer tournament, it might decide that Christian Pulisic is better off remaining with Chelsea than going to Tokyo. “...

DATE: Jan 13, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

IOC President defends rules limiting protests

Olympic athletes not to get political on podiums

DATE: Jan 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Sports

IOC details rules on political protests at Olympics

Guidelines ban political hand gestures, taking a knee

DATE: Jan 9, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Simone Soars: Biles named 2019 AP Female Athlete of the Year

They’re called “Simone Things,” a catchall phrase for the casual ease with which Simone Biles seems to soar through her sport and her life. The irony, of course, is that there’s n...

DATE: Dec 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Tokyo Olympics say costs $12.6B; Audit report says much more

TOKYO – Tokyo Olympic organizers said Friday they are spending 1.35 trillion Japanese yen – about $12.6 billion – to stage next year’s games. Organizers said the expenditure is unchanged fro...

DATE: Dec 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Russia plans to appeal Olympic ban

MOSCOW – Russia has signaled it will file an appeal against its four-year Olympic ban due to World Anti-Doping Agency sanctions which President Vladimir Putin on Thursday branded “unfair.” ...

DATE: Dec 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Tokyo being billed as ‘Recovery Olympics’

Torch relay will kick off in Fukishima

DATE: Dec 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

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