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In this Feb. 12, 2019, photo, cranes continue to work at the construction site of the Olympic Village for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in Tokyo. An IOC inspection team began a routine tour of venues being built for the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday, May 21, 2019, just days after an international labor union federation derided difficult working conditions at some sites. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

IOC confident Tokyo can resolve complaints over budget cuts

By STEPHEN WADE and MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, July 29, 2012 file photo, Valentin Hristov of Azerbaijan competes during the men's 56-kg, group A, weightlifting competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics, in London. Hristov took the bronze medal. The IOC says it disqualified Valentin Hristov, the bronze medalist weightlifter from Azerbaijan, among three athletes caught doping with steroids at the 2012 London Olympics. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

IOC disqualifies a 2012 Olympic bronze medalist for doping

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International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach from Germany arrives at the opening of the first day of the executive board meeting of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), in Lausanne, Switzerland, Tuesday, March 26, 2019. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP)

Breakdancing makes next move to Olympic status at Paris 2024

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday Nov. 13, 2011 file photo, Olha Korobka from Ukraine competes in the Women's +75kg category at the World Weightlifting Championships, in Paris. The International Olympic Committee this week will review weightlifting's progress in its fight against doping and examine a new rash of positive drug tests from the weightlifting world championships in 2018. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, file)

Column: IOC must wield big stick to clean up weightlifting

By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday Nov. 13, 2011 file photo, Olha Korobka from Ukraine competes in the Women's +75kg category at the World Weightlifting Championships, in Paris. The International Olympic Committee this week will review weightlifting's progress in its fight against doping and examine a new rash of positive drug tests from the weightlifting world championships in 2018. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, file)

IOC lifts threat to remove weightlifting from Paris Olympics

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

International Olympics Committee member and head of the Japanese Olympic Committee Tsunekazu Takeda bows as he arrives at the venue of a JOC executive board meeting in Tokyo Tuesday, March 19, 2019. Takeda is resigning amid a bribery scandal that investigators suspect helped Tokyo land next year's Olympics. Takeda announced Tuesday he will stand down when his term ends in June, but he denied corruption allegations against him. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Japanese Olympic Committee head resigns amid bribery scandal

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

In this Feb. 12, 2019, photo, a worker walks past one of construction sites for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. The price of the opening and closing ceremony for the Tokyo Olympics has risen about 40 percent according to numbers released by the organizing committee. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Victory for Olympic athletes in Germany to promote sponsors

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

Paris 2024 Games' chief Tony Estanguet, left, makes a selfie with all invited guests after a media conference at La Defense business district, outside Paris, Thursday, Feb. 21 , 2019. The organizers of the 2024 Paris Olympics want to add breakdancing to the games, which would be a first for the dance sport that came from the streets of New York. Also on Paris' wish-list of events it wants to add to the program are climbing, surfing and skateboarding. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Get hip to this: Paris wants Olympic debut for breakdance

By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press

In this Feb. 9, 2019, photo, invitees listen during an orientation for volunteers for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo. Unpaid Olympic volunteers do almost everything: guide athletes around, greet dignitaries, and translate for lost fans. IOC officials acknowledge the games couldn’t be held without them; invariably smiling, helpful and praised by presidents, prime ministers, and monarchs. That’s the case at next year’s Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics where about 80,000 will be needed. Just over 200,000 have applied with orientation and interviews for Japan residents starting this month. (Mizuki Ikari/Kyodo News via AP)

Olympic volunteers: One-time chance, or exploitation?

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

FILE - At left, in an Aug. 14, 2016, file photo, silver medalist Callum Skinner smiles during the podium ceremony for the men's cycling sprint final at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. At right, in a Feb. 28, 2017, file photo, then-World Anti-Doping Agency Deputy Director General Rob Koehler testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. An Olympic gold medalist and a former executive at the World Anti-Doping Agency are forming an organization designed to give athletes a stronger voice in the struggle against doping and the powers that police it. The group, called Global Athlete, is being organized by British cyclist Callum Skinner. Rob Koehler, who suddenly quit his post as deputy director general at WADA last year, will be the group’s director general. (AP Photo/File)

New athletes group formed to tackle doping in sports

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo dated Saturday, Nov. 3, 2018, the new president of the amateur boxing federation Gafur Rakhimov speaks to the media upon becoming the head of AIBA in Moscow, Russia. Amateur boxing faces a breakaway threat ahead of the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo after its international federation elected Gafur Rakhimov as president.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, FILE)

Boxing faces breakaway threat ahead of 2020 Olympics

By JAMES ELLINGWORTH - Associated Press

Olympic Games Executive Director Christophe Dubi, left, accompanying Toshiro Muto, CEO of the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, file, speaks after a working level meeting between the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) in Tokyo Friday, Feb. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Tokyo Olympic CEO says no need for Takeda to resign

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

The headquarters of Japanese advertising company Dentsu Inc. is seen in Tokyo Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019. One of Japan's most powerful companies, the giant agency Dentsu Inc. is part of an investigation into alleged vote-buying connected with landing the 2020 Olympics for Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

French Olympic probe raises questions about Japanese firm

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

FILE - This Nov. 20, 2013, file photo shows Japan Olympic Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda, right, and International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach, left, following a press conference in Tokyo. France's financial crimes office says International Olympic Committee member Takeda is being investigated for corruption related to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The National Financial Prosecutors office says Takeda, the president of the Japanese Olympic Committee, was placed under formal investigation for &quot;active corruption&quot; on Dec. 10.(AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa, File)

Takeda corruption probe sullies 2020 Tokyo Olympics and IOC

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

FILE - This is a Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013 file photo of Tsunekazu Takeda, President of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic games bid, as he listens to a question from the media during their first international presentation of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games bid in London. France's financial crimes office says International Olympic Committee member Takeda is being investigated for corruption related to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The National Financial Prosecutors office says Takeda, the president of the Japanese Olympic Committee, was placed under formal investigation for &quot;active corruption&quot; on Dec. 10.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

Probe of IOC’s Takeda hangs over Tokyo Olympics

By STEPHEN WADE and YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014 file photo, driver of Russia RUS-1, Alexander Zubkov, acknowledges the crowd after they won the gold medal during the men's four-man bobsled competition final at the 2014 Winter Olympics, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. Alexander Zubkov won a Moscow court ruling Friday Jan. 11, 2019. that could make it harder for the International Olympic Committee to recover his gold medals. He remains legally recognized as an Olympic champion _ but only in Russia. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Russian court says bobsledder can keep Olympic titles

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FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2018, file photo, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach, right, escorts Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) President Tsunekazu Takeda during an IOC Executive Board meeting in Tokyo. France's financial crimes office says International Olympic Committee member Takeda is being investigated for corruption related to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The National Financial Prosecutors office says Takeda, the president of the Japanese Olympic Committee, was placed under formal investigation for &quot;active corruption&quot; on Dec. 10.(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

IOC marketing chair from Japan investigated for corruption

By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press

Salt Lake City Council Chairwoman Erin Mendenhall, Fraser Bullock, chief operating officer of the 2002 Winter Games, Jeff Robbins, president and CEO of the Utah Sports Commission, Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski, Gov. Gary Herbert, USA Olympic speed skater Catherine Rainey-Norman and Salt Lake County Councilman Jim Bradley raise their arms in celebration after the USOC choose Salt Lake over Denver to bid on behalf of the U.S. for future Winter Games, Friday, Dec. 14, 2018 in Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City got the green light to bid for the Winter Olympics — most likely for 2030 — in an attempt to bring the Games back to the city that hosted in 2002 and provided the backdrop for the U.S. winter team's ascendance into an international powerhouse. (Steve Griffin/The Deseret News via AP)

Salt Lake City bids for 2nd Olympics in changed climate

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

FILE - This Feb. 8, 2002, file photo, shows U.S. champion Michelle Kwan practicing for the women's short program for the Winter Olympic Games at the Salt lake Ice Center in Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City got the green light to bid for an upcoming Winter Olympics most likely for 2030 in an attempt to bring the Games back to the city that hosted in 2002 and provided the backdrop for the U.S. winter team's ascendance into an international powerhouse. (AP Photo/Doug Mills, file)

Salt Lake City gets go-ahead to bid for Winter Olympics

By EDDIE PELLS and BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

IOC eases off support for electronic gaming as Olympic event

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