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Photos: Top sports photos of 2016

In this photo released by the IOC, wheelchair racer Marcel Hug, of Switzerland, celebrates winning the athletics men's final 800-meter T54 athletics event at Olympic Stadium during the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Sept. 15, 2016. (Simon Bruty/OIS, IOC via AP, File)
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Lots happened in the world of sports in 2016. Photographers from the Associated Press around the world captured the action.

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