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USOC anti-doping paper calls for WADA independence

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FILE - This is a Tuesday, May 20, 2008 file photo of Namibian former athlete Frank Fredericks, right, as he takes a look on the Wembley Pitch with Sebastian Coe during a visit by the International Olympic Committee to Wembley Stadium in London. The International Olympic Committee members are on a three day visit to London to inspect venues for the London2012 Olympic Games. Former Olympic sprinter Frankie Fredericks has turned himself over to the IOC ethics commission following a French newspaper report Friday March 3, 2017 linking him to a payment from a man who has been banned for life from track and field for corruption. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

Fredericks leaves 2024 Olympic bid role, waives vote

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

FILE - This is a Tuesday, May 20, 2008 file photo of Namibian former athlete Frank Fredericks, right, as he takes a look on the Wembley Pitch with Sebastian Coe during a visit by the International Olympic Committee to Wembley Stadium in London. The International Olympic Committee members are on a three day visit to London to inspect venues for the London2012 Olympic Games. Former Olympic sprinter Frankie Fredericks has turned himself over to the IOC ethics commission following a French newspaper report Friday March 3, 2017 linking him to a payment from a man who has been banned for life from track and field for corruption. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

Fredericks turns himself over to IOC ethics commission

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FILE - In this Feb. 24, 2017 file photo cars line up in front of a poster with an advertising campaign for the 2024 Olympic bid with Hungarian Olympic fencer Aron Szilagyi in Budapest. On Wednesday, March 1, 2017 Budapest’s assembly has approved a motion to withdraw the city’s bid for the 2024 Olympics. (AP Photo/Pablo Gorondi)

Budapest assembly passes motion to withdraw 2024 Olympic bid

By PABLO GORONDI - Associated Press

Head of the bid of Budapest for hosting the 2024 Summer Olympic Games Balazs Furjes addresses the General Assembly of the City of Budapest with Budapest Mayor Istvan Tarlos, right, and Vice Mayor Alexandra Szalay-Bobrovniczky in the background in the town hall in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017. (Zsolt Szigetvary/MTI via AP)

Budapest assembly to vote Wednesday on revoking Olympic bid

By PABLO GORONDI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb.3, 2017 file photo, the Eiffel Tower lit up with colors for the Paris 2024 bid during the launch of its campaign as candidate for the 2024 Olympic summer games in Paris. Groups defending the French language are lodging legal protests over the English-only slogan used by Paris authorities bidding for the 2024 Olympics. Lawyer Emmanuel Ludot said Friday Feb; 17, 2017 that he has submitted a request with the government's rights defense authority to suspend use of the slogan &quot;Made for Sharing.&quot; (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

IOC’s Bach welcomes talk on 2024 and 2028 Olympic hosts pick

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

Police officers cordon off the area outside the Louvre museum near where a soldier opened fire after he was attacked in Paris, Friday, Feb. 3, 2017. Police say the soldier opened fire outside the Louvre Museum after he was attacked by someone, and the area is being evacuated. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Paris attack raises new security concerns over Olympic bid

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

Japan Golf Council Chairwoman Eiko Ohya, center, listens to a reporter's question with vice chairmen, Yutaka Morohoshi, left, and Masayuki Tamaki, during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017. The course that will host the 2020 Olympic golf tournament says it is open to changing its membership policy to include women. The Kasumigaseki Country Club came under scrutiny recently when the International Olympic Committee inquired about the club's membership practice. The issue surfaced in mid-January when Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike urged Kasumigaseki to admit women as full members. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

2020 Olympic golf course open to reviewing membership policy

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

IOC chief Bach feels ‘inner rage’ at Russian doping scandal

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International Olympic Committee (IOC) Vice President and IOC Coordination Commission for Tokyo 2020 Chair John Coates, left, and Tokyo 2020 Olympics President Yoshiro Mori smile during a press conference following the 5th Project Review for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 in Tokyo, Friday, Jan. 22, 2016. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

IOC: Tokyo’s huge cost could give wrong message

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Jean-Christophe Rolland, center, president of the Swiss-based International Rowing Federation, accompanied by Koji Murofushi, right, sport director for the 2020 Tokyo Organizing Committee, speaks to the press following his meeting with 2020 Tokyo Organizing Committee Deputy Director Yukihiko Nunomura in Tokyo Monday, Oct. 3, 2016. Rolland says he is seeking clarification from Tokyo officials after a city advisory panel recommended moving the 2020 Olympics rowing competition far from the Japanese capital to save money. He said the reports of a possible venue change had come as a surprise. (AP Photo/Mari Yamaguchi)

Rowing, canoe sprint, swimming to remain at Tokyo venues

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

IOC backs Craig Reedie for new 3-year WADA term

By STEPHEN WILSON - Associated Press

IOC approves $509,285,000 funding for new Solidarity plan

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Councilman Joe Buscaino, left, with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, center, and Councilman Marqueece Harris-Dawson celebrate after a city council vote in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015. The Los Angeles City Council cleared the way Tuesday for Garcetti to strike agreements for a 2024 Olympics bid, putting the city on the verge of becoming the U.S. contender after Boston's awkward collapse. (AP Photo/Nick Ut) **FILE**

Olympic voters weigh Donald Trump effect on Los Angeles 2024 bid

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2016, file photo, Belgian runners, from left, Kim Gevaert, Elodie Ouedraogo, Olivia Borlee and Hanna Marien stand on the podium after receiving the gold medal for the women's 4 x 100 meter relay at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, during the Diamond League Memorial Van Damme athletics event at the King Baudouin stadium in Brussels. The Belgian team, initially winning silver, were moved up to gold after one runner on the Russian team tested positive for a banned substance. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Gotcha! Science’s march nets dopers, rights Olympic wrongs

By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 16, 2015, file photo, a skyscraper reflects in a pool of water in the site of Japan's National Stadium demolished for the renovation for the 2020 Olympic games as the compound is shown to the media for the first time after the completion of the demolition work in Tokyo. The price tag of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics could exceed 3 trillion yen ($30 billion) unless drastic cost-cutting measures are taken and several key venues are relocated, an expert panel warned Thursday, Sept. 30, 2016, in the latest blow to Japanese organizers. &quot;Naturally, anyone who hears these numbers is alarmed,&quot; panel leader Shinichi Ueyama said. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

IOC: All options on table in cost-cutting for Tokyo Games

By JIM ARMSTRONG - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 16, 2015, file photo, a skyscraper reflects in a pool of water in the site of Japan's National Stadium demolished for the renovation for the 2020 Olympic games as the compound is shown to the media for the first time after the completion of the demolition work in Tokyo. The price tag of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics could exceed 3 trillion yen ($30 billion) unless drastic cost-cutting measures are taken and several key venues are relocated, an expert panel warned Thursday, Sept. 30, 2016, in the latest blow to Japanese organizers. &quot;Naturally, anyone who hears these numbers is alarmed,&quot; panel leader Shinichi Ueyama said. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

Tokyo panel details venue changes, cost cuts for 2020 Games

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

3 weightlifters stripped of Olympic golds in doping cases

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FILE - In this Aug. 8, 2008 file photo fireworks explode during the opening ceremony in the National Stadium at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing. The IOC said Friday July 22, 2016, that 45 more athletes — including 23 medalists — have been caught for doping in retesting of samples from the 2008 and 2012 Olympics. The new cases bring to 98 the number of athletes who have failed tests so far in the reanalysis of their stored samples form the Beijing and London Games. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, file)

9 athletes, including 6 medalists, caught for Beijing doping

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FILE - This is a Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010 file photo of Russia's Besik Kudukhov as he reacts after defeating Ukraine's Vasyl Fedoryshyn during their 60kg freestyle final match at the World Wrestling Championships in Moscow, Russia. Russia said Monday Oct. 24, 2016 that the International Olympic Committee has dropped an investigation into a deceased wrestler Besik Kudukhov who allegedly tested positive for a banned steroid when an old sample was retested. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze, File)

Russia says doping probe into deceased wrestler dropped

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