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Ukraine high jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh, speaks during a press conference ahead of the World Athletics Diamond League Athletissima athletics meeting, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Wednesday, June 28, 2023. The event takes place on Friday. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP)

Ukrainian high jumper Mahuchikh insists Russians should be excluded from next year’s Paris Olympics

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

The Olympic rings are set up at Trocadero plaza that overlooks the Eiffel Tower, a day after the official announcement that the 2024 Summer Olympic Games will be in the French capital, in Paris, France, on Sept. 14, 2017. One year after the invasion of Ukraine began, Russia's reintegration into the world of sports threatens to create the biggest rift in the Olympic movement since the Cold War.(AP Photo//Michel Euler, File)

Paris Olympics sports bodies seek IOC clarity on Russia

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

A Russian flag is held above the Olympic Rings at Adler Arena Skating Center during the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia on Feb. 18, 2014. Russia and its ally Belarus have been invited to compete at the Asian Games in the next step to qualify athletes for next year’s Paris Olympics. The arrangement has been brokered by the International Olympic Committee. The IOC indicated on Wednesday that it favours allowing Russians to compete at the 2024 Olympics as neutral athletes. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Russia’s path to 2024 Olympics takes shape, Ukraine objects

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In this Aug. 16, 2018, file photo, participants of the Parkour Generations work on their practice runs outside of Wembley Stadium ahead of the 13th Rendezvous International Parkour Gathering in London. Global organizers of parkour are urging the IOC not to add the street-running sport to the 2024 Paris Olympics at a meeting next week. The Parkour Earth group has for years opposed what it calls a “hostile takeover” of the sport by the Olympic-recognized International Gymnastics Federation. Parkour Earth said Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020 in an open letter to the International Olympic Committee that the world gymnastic body's &quot;encroachment and misappropriation of our sport continues.” (AP Photo/Nishat Ahmed, File) **FILE**

Parkour group urges IOC to reject its sport from Olympics

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FILE - In this file photo taken Saturday, March 8, 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin, foreground, and Russia's sports minister Vitaly Mutko, standing behind, watch downhill ski competition of the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Roza Khutor mountain district of Sochi, Russia. Russia’s status as an Olympic team and reputation as a serial cheater in international sports goes on trial on Monday Nov. 2, 2020, as the Court of Arbitration for Sport will start hearings about a manipulated database from the Moscow testing laboratory. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Russia’s reputation, Olympic status on trial for doping

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

Silver medalist Hunter Carey from the USA in action during final run of the men's Freeski Halfpipe event at the Lausanne 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games, in Leysin, Switzerland, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP)

Swiss cautious on Olympic bid after successful Youth Games

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach, left, and IOC member and former swimmer Kirsty Coventry, right, speak during a press conference after the executive board meeting of the IOC, at the Olympic House, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP)

IOC bans taking a knee, raising a fist as political protests at Olympics

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

Nathanael Pianta poses with the Lausanne 2020 Youth Olympic Flame alongside the Olympic Rings outside Olympic House during the the final Torch Relay. The Winter Youth Olympic Games, Lausanne, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. (Joel Marklund/Olympic Information Service via AP)

Skater badly injured in Olympic ceremony rehearsal accident

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

Olympic Rings and a model of Misha the Bear Cub, the mascot of the Moscow 1980 Olympic Games, left, are seen in the yard of Russian Olympic Committee building in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2019. The WADA committee has proposed a package of sanctions including a four-year ban on hosting major events in Russia and a similar four-year sanction on Russians competing in top events like the Olympics, though they could enter as neutrals. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Russia faces next wave of punishment in endless doping saga

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 12, 2014 file photo, Thomas Florschuetz, Joshua Bluhm, Kevin Kuske and Christian Poser compete in the four-man bobsled World Cup competition in St. Moritz, Switzerland. St. Moritz will host sliding sports events at the 2020 Youth Winter Olympics, the high-end resort’s Olympia track will stage bobsled, luge and skeleton races in January 2020. (Arno Balzarini/Keystone via AP, File)

2026 Olympics in Italy could slide over border to St Moritz

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven, right, reacts next to Gunilla Lindberg, IOC member of Sweden, left, during the first day of the 134th Session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), at the SwissTech Convention Centre, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Monday, June 24, 2019. The host city of the 2026 Olympic Winter Games will be decided during the134th IOC Session. Stockholm-Are in Sweden and Milan-Cortina in Italy are the two candidate cities for the Olympic Winter Games 2026. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP)

The Latest: Milan-Cortina wins bid by 47-34 votes

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People take part in the &quot;one year to go&quot; celebrations before the next Winter Youth Olympic Games Lausanne 2020, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019. Voters in Switzerland have rejected three Olympic bids since 2013, yet the city which hosts the IOC headquarters will still stage a Winter Games in one year’s time. The 2020 Winter Youth Olympics opening next Jan. 9 in Lausanne will end a 72-year wait to see medal events contested in the Alpine heartland nation. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP)

Youth Olympics in 2020 aims to overcome Swiss bid skeptics

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 7, 2014 file photo Alexander Zubkov of Russia carries the national flag as he leads the team during the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. When the International Olympic Committee board prepares to vote Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017 on whether to ban Russia from February’s Winter Olympics, its members will decide the fate of numerous medals yet to be won. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, file)

IOC weighs Russian Olympic ban, risks provoking Putin

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

The new president of the FC Lausanne-Sport David Thompson, CEO of INEOS Switzerland, speaks during a press conference , in Rolle, canton of Vaud, Switzerland, on Monday, Nov. 13, 2017. British-owned multinational chemical firm INEOS has agreed a deal to buy Swiss top-tier club Lausanne-Sport. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

British chemical firm to buy Swiss soccer club Lausanne

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IOC advised to empower ethics panel, control $500M panel

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

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

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

President Barack Obama speaks at the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, about the breakthrough in the Iranian nuclear talks in this April 2, 2015, file photo. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS: Obama’s dangerous wordplay on Iran deal

By Armstrong Williams

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry walks outside the hotel during a break after a bilateral meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif for a new round of Nuclear Talks with Iran, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Friday, March 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Keystone,Jean-Christophe Bott)

Iran says U.S. and allies lack ‘political will’ for final nuclear deal

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

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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