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Demonstrators angered by more than two months of anti-government protests in Kiev gather on Khreschatyk street in Kiev, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014. Thousands of people angered by months of anti-government protests in the Ukrainian capital converged on one of the protesters' barricades Saturday, but retreated after meeting sizeable resistance. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

Ukraine: Political crisis won’t derail 2022 bid

By STEPHEN WILSON - Associated Press

Estonia Olympic champion suspected of doping

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One of the rings forming the Olympic Rings fails to open during the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, Friday, Feb. 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

IOC defends use of rehearsal footage in ceremony

By STEPHEN WILSON - Associated Press

President of the International Olympic Committee Thomas Bach delivers his speech at the IOC Gala Dinner on the eve of the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/Andrej Isakovic, Pool)

IOC reserve fund increases to $932 million

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IOC President Thomas Bach, left, welcomes Russian President Vladimir Putin before the IOC President?'s Gala Dinner on the eve of the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/Andrej Isakovic, Pool)

Chinese member elected as an IOC vice president

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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, left, is presented with an Olympic torch by International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, right, after Ban addressed the IOC's general assembly ahead of the upcoming 2014 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. It was the first time a U.N. secretary-general delivered a keynote address to the IOC's general assembly. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

IOC: Rio needs ‘constant supervision’ for 2016

By STEPHEN WILSON - Associated Press

The Olympic Park is illuminated early Thursday morning, Feb. 6, 2014, in Sochi, Russia, prior to the start of the 2014 Winter Olympics. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

LOVERRO: In many ways, Sochi is the perfect Olympics host city

By Thom Loverro - The Washington Times

A shopper looks at Panasonic's flat-panel televisions at an electronics retail store in Tokyo Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. Panasonic Corp. says profit rose 20 percent in the October-December quarter as growth in businesses such as smart home systems offset its long struggling TV and appliance divisions. The Japanese manufacturing giant reported net income of 73.7 billion yen ($728 million), up from 61.3 billion yen a year earlier. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

Panasonic extends as Olympic sponsor through 2024

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International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, left, talks with Director General Christophe De Kepper, right, and executive board member John Coates, prior to opening the IOC's general assembly at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

IOC considers independent body for whistleblowers

By STEPHEN WILSON - Associated Press

A gay rights activist holds a banner in front of a large clock showing the number of days left until the start of the Olympic games as a police officer approaches, left, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014. Russian gay rights activists protested the upcoming Olympic Games in Sochi. Two activists unfurled banners reading “Berlin 1936 = Sochi 2014,” referring to the Olympic Games that were held in the capital of Nazi Germany. One-man pickets are legal in Russia and the two activists holding signs were spaced far enough apart that neither was arrested. (AP Photo/Elena Ignatyeva)

More Olympic-linked furor over Russia anti-gay law

By DAVID CRARY - Associated Press

Israeli activists hold signs as they protest against Russia's human rights record and anti-gay law in front of Israel's President Shimon Peres' residence during the visit of Dmitry Kiselyov, head of Russia Today, Russia's largest news agency, in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014. The law bans pro-gay &quot;propaganda&quot; that could be accessible to minors. Activists view the law as forbidding almost any public expression of gay-rights sentiment. Hebrew sign, center, reads, &quot;homophobe and racist not in the presidents' residence,&quot; referring to the visitor. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

In Sochi, new complaints about Russia anti-gay law

By OSKAR GARCIA - Associated Press

International Olympic Committee member Samih Moudallal, of Syria, waits for the IOC's general assembly to convene on its first day at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

IOC backs proposal to set up Olympic TV channel

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International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, left, talks with Director General Christophe De Kepper, right, and executive board member John Coates, prior to opening the IOC's general assembly at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

IOC urged not to pay sports to attend Olympics

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

The photo taken with a fisheye lens show the start area on the large hill of the ski jumping stadium for the 2014 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Korek happy to see an end of jumping “injustice”

By DENNIS PASSA - Associated Press

Cross country skiers pass by the Olympic rings prior to the 2014 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

USOC sponsor AT&T condemns Russia’s anti-gay law

By OSKAR GARCIA - Associated Press

Kumaritashvili’s death remembered at Sochi Games

Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin pets a snow leopard cub at the snow leopard sanctuary in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. Putin checked in Tuesday at a preserve for endangered snow leopards and visited a group of cubs born last summer in the mountains above the growing torrent of activity in Sochi for the Winter Games. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

Putin strokes leopard, wins IOC support

By STEVEN R. HURST and STEPHEN WILSON - Associated Press

Claudia Bokel retains athletes’ seat on IOC board

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FILE - In this Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014, file photo, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, right, embraces executive board member Anita DeFrantz before the start of an executive board meeting at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. DeFrantz won the bronze medal in rowing in the 1976 Olympics, but missed out on the 1980 Moscow Olympics because of the U.S.-led boycott. Now, after all those years, DeFrantz is in Russia for an Olympics. Not as a competitor, but as the highest-ranking American in the international Olympic world. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

DeFrantz savors Sochi after 1980 Moscow boycott

By STEPHEN WILSON - Associated Press

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, center right, arrives at Sochi International Airport prior to the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics on Friday, Jan. 31, 2014 in Sochi, Russia. The Olympic games will run from Feb. 7-23. (AP Photo/Matthew Stockman, Pool)

New IOC president faces challenging 1st games

By STEPHEN WILSON - Associated Press