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A man takes a picture of a countdown clock that shows seven more days to go before the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympic Games in Tokyo Friday, July 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

Plenty at stake for NBC as COVID Olympics opening looms

By David Bauder - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2020, file photo, Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), speaks during the 135th Session of the IOC on the sidelines of the the third Winter Youth Olympic Games Lausanne 2020, at the SwissTech Convention Centre, in Lausanne, Switzerland. Hoping to boost morale in Japan by assuring the Tokyo Olympics will be held as scheduled, IOC President Thomas Bach has held a conference call limited to three of Japan's main's media outlets: the newspapers Asahi and Yomiuri, and the national Kyodo news agency. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP, File)

Bach tries to boost Olympic morale in Japan, speaks to media

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

Special Olympics running short on volunteers

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Special Olympics kicks off in New Jersey in June

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IOC says NBC secures US TV rights to Olympics from 2021 to 2032 for $7.65 billion

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Richland sheriff helping out Special Olympics SC

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300 officers, Special Olympics athletes torch run

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Michael Phelps speaks to the media after the 50-meter freestyle preliminary heat during the Arena Grand Prix swim event, Friday, April 25, 2014, in Mesa, Ariz. It was Phelps' second competitive event after a nearly two-year retirement. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Phelps taking different approach in comeback

By BETH HARRIS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, May 14, 2013 file photo, Finland's Juhamatti Aaltonen, left, vies for the puck with Latvia's Ralfs Freibergs during the 2013 Ice Hockey IIHF World Championships Group B preliminary round match in Helsinki. Two months after the closing ceremony, the Sochi Olympics broke a Winter Games record Friday, April 25, 2014 when a Latvian hockey player became the eighth athlete disqualified for a positive doping test. Ralfs Freibergs was retroactively kicked out of the games by the IOC after being found guilty of a steroid offense, the third hockey player and second from Latvia caught for doping in Sochi. (AP Photo/Lehtikuva, Jussi Nukari, File) FINLAND OUT

Sochi produces Winter Games record 8th doping case

By STEPHEN WILSON - Associated Press

FILE - This Feb. 17, 2014 file photo shows Meryl Davis and Charlie White of the United States compete in the ice dance free dance figure skating finals during the 2014 Winter Olympics, in Sochi, Russia. Slightly more than half of the people who watched the Sochi Olympics on NBC also used a computer, tablet or smartphone to get information about the games while the TV was on, the network said on Wednesday, April 23. NBC and its cable networks televised 541 hours of Sochi action and made all Olympic competition available online. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, File)

NBC: Olympics show wide second-screen use

By DAVID BAUDER - Associated Press