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Canada loses Beijing Olympics figure skating medals appeal. Russians also won't get medals in Paris
Read full article: Canada loses Beijing Olympics figure skating medals appeal. Russians also won't get medals in ParisCanadian figure skaters will not join the United States and Japan on the podium at the Paris Olympics next week.
Imane Khelif's Olympic participation decried in letter from her next opponent's boxing federation
Read full article: Imane Khelif's Olympic participation decried in letter from her next opponent's boxing federationThe Hungarian Boxing Association says it is sending letters of protest to both the IOC and Hungaryโs Olympic committee over Anna Luca Hamoriโs quarterfinal matchup with Imane Khelif of Algeria in women's boxing at the Paris Olympics.
Algeria boxer Imane Khelif wins first Olympic fight when opponent Angela Carini quits
Read full article: Algeria boxer Imane Khelif wins first Olympic fight when opponent Angela Carini quitsImane Khelif of Algeria won her opening Olympic boxing bout when opponent Angela Carini of Italy quit after just 46 seconds.
Paris Olympic competition nears total gender parity. Take a look at the athlete gender breakdown
Read full article: Paris Olympic competition nears total gender parity. Take a look at the athlete gender breakdownThe founder of the modern Olympics and former IOC president, Pierre de Coubertin, once said women competing in the Games would be โimpractical, uninteresting, unaesthetic and improper.โ.
IOC imposes 15-year ban on former Olympic power broker Sheikh Ahmad of Kuwait
Read full article: IOC imposes 15-year ban on former Olympic power broker Sheikh Ahmad of KuwaitThe IOC has suspended former Olympic power broker Sheikh Ahmad of Kuwait for 15 years after his conviction for forgery was upheld on appeal this year at a Swiss criminal appeals court.
NHL players are headed back to the Olympics in 2026 and 2030, cleared to play for 1st time since '14
Read full article: NHL players are headed back to the Olympics in 2026 and 2030, cleared to play for 1st time since '14NHL players are returning to the Olympics for the first time in more than a decade.
US to receive gold medals in wake of figure skater Valieva's Olympic DQ
Read full article: US to receive gold medals in wake of figure skater Valieva's Olympic DQInternational Olympic officials have told counterparts in the United States that their figure skating team will receive gold medals now that Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva has been disqualified for doping.
Many top Russian athletes faced minimal drug testing in 2023 ahead of next year's Paris Olympics
Read full article: Many top Russian athletes faced minimal drug testing in 2023 ahead of next year's Paris OlympicsTwo of Russiaโs top swimmers who could be eligible for the next yearโs Olympics have been drug tested by their countryโs anti-doping agency only twice apiece in 2023.
Paris Olympics vows to carry the torch for LGBTQ rights after watershed of Tokyo
Read full article: Paris Olympics vows to carry the torch for LGBTQ rights after watershed of TokyoOrganizers of the 2024 Paris Games intend to seize on the Olympic spotlight to push a message that LGBTQ rights need to progress outside France.
Coe: 'Inconceivable' Russians would be allowed at worlds
Read full article: Coe: 'Inconceivable' Russians would be allowed at worldsThe leader of global track and field said it would have been โinconceivableโ to have allowed Russians into this weekโs world championships given the countryโs war against Ukraine.
Salt Lake City Winter Olympics bid more likely for 2034
Read full article: Salt Lake City Winter Olympics bid more likely for 2034Recent meetings with the IOC have led U.S. officials to believe all signs point toward Salt Lake City bidding for the 2034 Winter Olympics, though they say Utahโs capital will be ready if asked to host the 2030 Games, too.
Peng Shuai tells paper she never wrote of being assaulted
Read full article: Peng Shuai tells paper she never wrote of being assaultedChinese tennis star Peng Shuai has denied saying she was sexually assaulted, despite a November social media post attributed to her that accused a former top Communist Party official of forcing her into sex.
Even amid boycott, IOC still hit with Peng Shuai questions
Read full article: Even amid boycott, IOC still hit with Peng Shuai questionsIOC President Thomas Bach canโt escape repeated questions about Peng Shuai and issues raised by two video calls the International Olympic Committee has had with her.
Facebook says it mistakenly blocked sprint queen Thompson-Herah from Instagram
Read full article: Facebook says it mistakenly blocked sprint queen Thompson-Herah from InstagramFacebook Inc mistakenly blocked gold medallist sprinter Elaine Thompson-Herah, the fastest woman in the world, from her Instagram account, the company said on Wednesday.
WATCH: Moment of remembrance observed at 2020 Opening Ceremony
Read full article: WATCH: Moment of remembrance observed at 2020 Opening CeremonyThe festivities of the Opening Ceremony took a brief pause, as athletes and officials observed a moment of silence in remembrance of both the lives lost to the COVID-19 pandemic, and those killed during the 1972 Munich Olympic Games.
WATCH: Thomas Bach praises togetherness at Opening Ceremony
Read full article: WATCH: Thomas Bach praises togetherness at Opening CeremonyIOC President Thomas Bach reflected on the pandemic in his speech at the Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo Olympic Games, and offered words of hope, saying that the feeling of togetherness at the Olympics "is the light at the end of the dark tunnel."
Smith, Carlos, Berry demand change in Olympic protest rule
Read full article: Smith, Carlos, Berry demand change in Olympic protest ruleTommie Smith, John Carlos and Gwen Berry are among the more than 150 educators, activists and athletes who signed a letter Thursday urging the IOC not to punish participants who demonstrate at the Tokyo Games.
More tests, no quarantine in updated Tokyo Olympic rules
Read full article: More tests, no quarantine in updated Tokyo Olympic rulesTokyo Olympic organizers this week are to unveil additional plans to explain how 15,400 Olympic and Paralympic athletes can compete in Japan when the games open in three months.
Rights groups call for boycott of Beijing 2022 Winter Games
Read full article: Rights groups call for boycott of Beijing 2022 Winter GamesFILE - In this Aug. 13, 2020, file photo, visitors to Chongli, one of the venues for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, pass by the Olympics logo in Chongli in northern China's Hebei Province. A coalition of 180 rights group on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2020 called for a boycott of next years Beijing Winter Olympics tied to reported human rights abuses against ethnic minorities in China. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)TOKYO โ A coalition of 180 rights groups on Wednesday called for a boycott of next yearโs Beijing Winter Olympics tied to reported human rights abuses against ethnic minorities in China. Beijing hosted the 2008 Olympics, which it promised would improve human rights in the country. โAs human rights experts predicted, this decision proved to be hugely misplaced; not only did Chinaโs human rights record not improve but violations increased substantially without rebuke.
2020 sports quiz: Brady to Bundesliga, Big Ten to Brooklyn
Read full article: 2020 sports quiz: Brady to Bundesliga, Big Ten to BrooklynFILE - In this Dec. 1, 2020, file photo, the Olympic Symbol is reinstalled after it was taken down for maintenance ahead of the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics, in the Odaiba section in Tokyo. Your 2020 year-end sports quiz awaits. Like much else these days, quizzes will be graded on the curve:JanuaryThe IOC sets conduct guidelines for athletes at the Tokyo Olympics. JulyThe renamed Washington Football Team might get another rebrand. ___Answers: January (b); February (a); March (b); April (a); May (c); June (b); July (c); August (a); September (a); October (b); November (b); December (c).
Olympics on tight timeline to chart new path on protest
Read full article: Olympics on tight timeline to chart new path on protest(AP Photo/File)For generations, the IOC knew exactly where to look for key support of its ban against protests at the Olympics. โThat becomes a difficult situation,โ said Harry Edwards, the activist who helped brainstorm the gestures by Smith and Carlos 52 years ago. American athletes have been reeling from a summer of unrest over police violence against Black people in the United States. The Olympics are a behemoth that counts America as only one of 206 countries who are members. โAnd what today reflects is that this generation of athletes is more than willing to do their part.โ
Listening to athletes, USOPC won't punish Olympic protests
Read full article: Listening to athletes, USOPC won't punish Olympic protestsItโs a response to a set of recommendations from a USOPC athlete group that seeks changes to the much-maligned Rule 50 of the IOC Olympic Charter, which prohibits inside-the-lines protests at the games. The IOC has defended the rule, explaining that political statements have no place inside the competition venues at the Olympics. The USOPC established a handful of working groups led by athletes who tackled different aspects of social injustice in the Olympic movement and society in general. The USOPC says it won't discipline athletes for โrespectfulโ and โpeacefulโ demonstrations, and Hirshland said, โI can't imagine that kneeling or raising a fist would be considered" inappropriate. The IOC has sent a survey to athletes across the globe for their opinions on Rule 50 and other issues.
Bach and Mori give pep talk to heads of Olympic delegations
Read full article: Bach and Mori give pep talk to heads of Olympic delegationsTOKYO โ IOC President Thomas Bach and Yoshiro Mori, the head of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee, gave an online pep talk Monday to national Olympic committee representatives to allay fears about the postponed games. About 200 national Olympic committees are expected to be represented next year in Tokyo. Organizers held an English-speaking session on Monday for chefs de mission, with French and Spanish sessions scheduled for later in the week. These sessions have been typically held in the host city and were held in Tokyo before the Olympics were postponed. Bach again called Tokyo โthe best prepared Olympic city.โMori, a former Japanese prime minister, said he was aware of the โanxietyโ the postponement had created.
Organizers, IOC trying to remove doubts over Tokyo Olympics
Read full article: Organizers, IOC trying to remove doubts over Tokyo OlympicsTOKYO The International Olympic Committee and Japanese organizers are trying to convince the public that the postponed Tokyo Olympics will take place next year despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Tokyo organizing committee CEO T oshiro Muto said last week that the games could go ahead without a vaccine. This week John Coates, the IOC member who oversees the Tokyo Olympics, said the games would happen despite the pandemic. City, government, and Tokyo Olympic officials gathered last week in the first of a string of meetings to plan for countermeasures against COVID-19. The University of Oxford is releasing a study this week that shows the Tokyo Olympics are the most expensive in history, examining records since 1960.
Track group calls for change of Olympic protest rule
Read full article: Track group calls for change of Olympic protest ruleThe IOC earlier this year reiterated its support of the rule that restricts protests inside the lines at the games. But in the aftermath of protests that stemmed from George Floyd's killing in May, the committee said it would consider measures that would allow athletes to make stronger protests. Among the board members signing off on the statement are Allyson Felix, Christian Taylor, Emma Coburn, Shaunae Miller-Uibo and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce. Berry was an outspoken critic of the USOPC earlier this year when it made public shows of solidarity with Black athletes, suggesting the USOPC never reached out to her on the issue. The USOPC has formed an athletes' group to look into ways to combat racism, which could include calling for changes in the rule known as Rule 50.
Tokyo Olympic venues lined up, schedule remains the same
Read full article: Tokyo Olympic venues lined up, schedule remains the sameTOKYO The 42 venues for next years delayed Tokyo Olympics have been secured and the competition schedule will remain almost identical to the one that would have been used this year. The Athletes Village and the main press center have also been lined up for 2021. That was the message delivered Friday to IOC members by Tokyo organizing committee President Yoshiro Mori and CEO Toshiro Muto. However, women's softball and soccer will open on July 21, men's soccer on July 22, and archery and rowing on July 23. IOC President Thomas Bach said earlier this week that multiple scenarios are being thought about to pull off the Olympics next year.
Japan, IOC agree Tokyo Olympics should be postponed for 1 year
Read full article: Japan, IOC agree Tokyo Olympics should be postponed for 1 yearA man walks past a large banner promoting the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, Monday, March 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)TOKYO โ IOC President Thomas Bach has agreed โ100%โ to a proposal of postponing the Tokyo Olympics for about one year until 2021 because of the coronavirus outbreak, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Tuesday. He added that he hoped to reschedule the Olympics as a proof of human victory over the coronavirus pandemic. Abe held telephone talks with Bach after the IOC said it would make a decision on the Tokyo Games over the next four weeks. Abe said he expects the pandemic to be over by next year and the Olympics can be held by the summer of 2021 at the latest.