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Calgary bid for 2026 Winter Olympics iced by City Council
CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Calgary’s bid to hold the 2026 Winter Olympics is over. The City Council voted Monday to end the bid following last week’s nonbinding vote in which 56 percent of those who…
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Majority of Calgary voters say ‘no thanks’ to 2026 Olympics
CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Calgary’s bid to host the 2026 Winter Olympics was rebuffed on Tuesday when local voters said “no” in a nonbinding referendum. Unofficial results showed that 56 percent voted against bidding for…
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Issues galore, resources limited for typical US Olympic org
Soon after he accepted the thankless task of trying to rebuild the sprawling, fractured operation at USA Track and Field, Doug Logan received a one-line text from the NBA commissioner at the time, David Stern:…
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Koreas to inform IOC of intent to co-host 2032 Games
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North and South Korea on Friday agreed to officially inform the International Olympic Committee of their intent to co-host the 2032 Summer Olympics as they continued with reconciliation efforts. Korean…
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Calgary 2026 Olympics bid survives on council motion
CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Calgary’s potential bid for the 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympics survived a city council vote Wednesday when a motion leading to the cancellation of an upcoming plebiscite failed to pass. Ten…
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Olympian Shaun White apologizes for ‘insensitive’ Halloween costume
The famed X-Games star, 32, dressed up as Simple Jack, played by Ben Stiller in the movie Tropic Thunder, over the weekend. The fictional character has a mental disability.
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Tokyo Olympic minister promises transparency on spending
TOKYO (AP) — The minister in charge of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics said Tuesday that national government spending on the event is billions less than a recent national government audit showed. Tracking Olympic costs is…
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50 years after raised fists at Olympics, legacy of protest continues with Kaepernick
“Colin Kaepernick’s kneeling is the exactly the same sort of symbolic protest as the black power salute from the 1968 Olympics,” said Leland Ware, the Louis L. Redding Chair for the study of law and public policy at the University of Delaware.
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Biles criticizes new Gymnastics President over anti-Kaepernick tweet
Four-time Olympics gold medalist Simone Biles responded to a tweet by Bono from earlier this year in which she posted a photo of her drawing over the Nike swoosh logo on a pair of shoes in protest of the company using Colin Kaepernick in an ad campaign.
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800-meter Olympic champ Mims remains pioneer 50 years later
The moment felt surreal to Olympic 800-meter gold medalist Madeline Manning Mims as she stood on a track in North Carolina over the summer and performed a pitch-perfect rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Making it…
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Settlement ends Russian doping case at Pyeongchang Olympics
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — One of the four doping cases at the Pyeongchang Olympics has been closed in an agreement between bobsled’s governing body and Russian driver Nadezhda Sergeeva. The Court of Arbitration for Sport…
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Tokyo Olympics: Costs hit almost $25 billion _ may go higher
TOKYO (AP) — The price tag keeps soaring for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics despite local organizers and the International Olympic Committee saying that spending is being cut. A report just released by the national government’s…
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WADA investigator says the agency got a bad deal from Russia
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The Canadian lawyer who investigated the state-backed doping scheme by Russia when it hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics said the World Anti-Doping Agency rushed into accepting a bad deal by reinstating…
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Despite protests, Russia’s anti-doping agency reinstated
The World Anti-Doping Agency declared Russia’s scandal-ridden drug-fighting operation back in business Thursday, a decision designed to bring a close to one of sports’ most notorious doping scandals but one bitterly disputed by hundreds of…
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Gretzky: NHL players in Olympics ‘much better for everyone’
BEIJING (AP) — Wayne Gretzky says the NHL should again allow its players to compete in the Winter Olympics because sending the world’s top ice hockey players is “always much better for everyone.” Speaking to…
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