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FILE - In this April 25, 2016, file photo, Tokyo 2020 Emblems Selection Committee Chairperson Ryohei Miyata, right, and its member and Japanese baseball great Sadaharu Oh hold new official logos of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, left, and the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games during the unveiling ceremony in Tokyo. The cost of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics is nearly twice the initial estimate despite a major cost-cutting effort. A major reason is that cities exclude large amounts of associated costs when they bid to host the Olympics. Tokyo Olympic organizers announced this week that the estimated cost is now 1.4 trillion yen ($12.6 billion). The bid estimate was 730 billion yen ($6.6 billion). (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)

IOC to set Tokyo Olympics program, add street basketball

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

Co-president of Paris 2024 bid Tony Estanguet, front right, takes a selfie of the back row from left, International Olympic Committee Evaluation Commission Chair Patrick Baumann and new French President Emmanuel Macron, member of the IOC Guy Drut and co-president of the Paris 2024 bid Bernard Lapasset as they pose during a group photo at the Elysee palace in Paris, France, May 16, 2017. France's new President Emmanuel Macron is hosting the International Olympic Committee to try to boost Paris' bid to beat out Los Angeles in the heated race for the 2024 Games. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

IOC to discuss LA-Paris double Olympic host picks on June 9

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Australian Olympic Committee President John Coates comments on his re-election during the AOC's annual general meeting in Sydney, Saturday, May 6, 2017. Coates will serve another four-year term as president of the Australian Olympic Committee after beating former field hockey gold medalist Danni Roche by a landslide in an election. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

Coates coasts to win in Australian Olympic Committee vote

By DENNIS PASSA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2016, file photo, IOC Vice President John Coates delivers a speech during the closing plenary session of the IOC Debriefing of the Olympic Games Rio 2016, in Tokyo. An increasingly bitter Olympic election in Australia has intensified with Coates describing the campaign against him as malicious and designed to damage him personally. Coates is facing his first challenge as president of the Australian Olympic Committee in 27 years, with 1996 Olympic field hockey gold medalist Danni Roche running against him in a May 6, 2017 ballot. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

Australian Olympic chief says campaign is malicious

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FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2016, file photo, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, second from left, is flanked by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, left, LA 2024 chairman Casey Wasserman, second from right, and UCLA chancellor Gene Block, right, during a news conference in Los Angeles. As the IOC moves the goalpost in the 2024 Olympic contest, bid leaders from Los Angeles and Paris head to a campaign event in Denmark on Tuesday, April 4, 2017 unsure of exactly what they are shooting for. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

LA, Paris share 2024 plans with Olympic leaders

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

IOC denies covering up 2008 Olympic doping cases

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Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, left, welcomes her London counterpart, Sadiq Khan, before their meeting with the mayor of Seoul at the City Hall of Paris, France, Wednesday, March 29, 2017. The mayors of Paris, London and Seoul are creating a system to grade vehicles based on their emissions in real-life conditions, after growing uncertainty about automakers efforts to skirt rules intended to limit pollutants. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

LA, Paris head to 2024 Olympics event unsure of IOC’s goal

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach speaks during a press conference in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Friday, March 17, 2017. The IOC has moved closer toward picking both Los Angeles and Paris to host a Summer Games in an unprecedented double vote this year. Bach has repeatedly hinted at picking both LA and Paris by awarding both the 2024 and 2028 Summer Games hosting rights at the IOC Session on Sept. 13. (Yoo Hyung-jae/Yonhap via AP)

Paris Olympic bid team tells IOC it doesn’t want 2028 Games

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

IOC board member apologizes for linking Russian ban to Nazis

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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

International Olympic Committee (IOC) president German Thomas Bach speaks during a media round table on the eve of an executive board meeting at the IOC headquarters, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Monday, Dec. 7, 2015. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP)

IOC president Bach wants life bans for proven Russian cheats

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

International Olympic Committee, IOC, President Thomas Bach, center, speaks with IOC members Angela Ruggiero, right, of the US and Ser Miang Ng, left, of Singapore at the opening of the first day of the executive board meeting of the IOC, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP)

IOC extends provisional measures against Russia

By STEPHEN WILSON - Associated Press

FILE - This is a Friday, Feb. 26, 2016 file photo of IOC President Thomas Bach as he speaks during the extraordinary FIFA congress in Zurich, Switzerland, Friday, Feb. 26, 2016. With the Russian doping scandal still causing discord across the international sports world, Olympic leaders will meet Saturday to consider ways of revamping a global drug-testing system battered by political disputes and a loss of public confidence. (AP Photo/Michael Probst File)

IOC calls on WADA to lead unified global anti-doping system

By GRAHAM DUNBAR and STEPHEN WILSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, July 29, 2016 file photo, members of the Russian Olympic delegation line up to board a bus after arriving at the Rio de Janeiro International Airport to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The IOC approved the entry of 271 Russian athletes for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics on Thursday, Aug. 4 meaning 70 percent of the country's original team will compete in the games after the scandal over state-sponsored doping. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

IOC approves entry of 271 Russian athletes for Rio Games

By Stephen Wilson - Associated Press

Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko speaks during a news conference in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2015. Mutko said doping has been yet another try to paint Russia as a villain, and dismissed any claims that the government was involved in doping cover-ups. Instead, he suggested that athletes should take personal responsibility for the breach of sports regulations. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Russia loses appeal against Olympic track and field ban

By Stephen Wilson - Associated Press

Representatives of the 2022 Olympic Games candidate cities, from left to right, Amanzholova Zauresh, vice-mayor of Almaty City representing Almaty 2022, Yang Xiaochao, vice-chairman of Beijing 2022, and Eli Grimsby, CEO of the candidate city of Oslo 2022, pose for photographers during during the announcement of the 2022 Olympic Winter Games candidate cities (Beijing 2022, Oslo 2022, Almaty 2022) after an executive board meeting, at the IOC headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Monday, July 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Keystone,Jean-Christophe Bott)

2022 Winter Olympics candidates narrowed to 3

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In this photo released by Patrick Sandusky of the United States Olympic Committee, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Tomas Bach, right, and Chairman and CEO of Comcast Corporation Brian L. Roberts sign an agreement to secure the U.S. broadcast rights to the Olympics through to 2032 for NBC Universal, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 7, 2014. NBC secured the U.S. broadcast rights to the Olympics through 2032 on Wednesday in a record six-games deal worth $7.75 billion. NBC already holds the rights through the 2020 Olympics in a four-games deal signed in 2011 for $4.38 billion. (AP Photo/Patrick Sandusky, USOC)

NBC extends Olympic deal through 2032 for $7.75B

By STEPHEN WILSON - Associated Press

In a photo provided by NBC Olympics, NBC's Bob Costas prepares for broadcast at an anchor desk in Sochi, Russia, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2014. Costas plans to make his return to NBC on Monday after being off the air for a week with an eye infection. (AP Photo/NBC Olympics)

NBC keeps U.S. Olympics broadcast rights through 2032

By Stephen Wilson - Associated Press

Dan Hamhuis of Canada (5), goalkeeper Carey Price of Canada (31), Jonathan Toews of Canada (16) and Shea Weber of Canada (6) celebrate their 3-0 win over Sweden in the men's gold medal ice hockey game at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Canada rules rink, a flame dies, an Olympics ends

By FRED LIEF - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Premier Dmitry Medvedev watch the men's 4x10 km cross-country relay at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

SOCHI SCENE: An IOC view

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