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Ukraine's Anastasiia Shepilenko waves at the finish area of an alpine ski, women's World Championships super G, in Meribel, France, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati)

IOC’s Bach says Olympics on history’s side in Russia issue

By Andrew Dampf and 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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Kimia Yousofi, front left, and Farzad Mansouri, of Afghanistan, carry their country's flag during the opening ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics on July 23, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. Afghanistan's flag bearer at the Tokyo 2020 Games and other prominent women's sports campaigners have been safely relocated to Australia following a year-long Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) project. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File) **FILE**

Afghan Olympians resettle in Australia to start afresh

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Li Wenwen of China shouts in celebration after setting a new Olympic record in the women's +87kg weightlifting event at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Monday, Aug. 2, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

IOC gives itself more power to remove sports from Olympics

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

Raven Saunders, of the United States, poses with her silver medal on women's shot put at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 1, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. During the photo-op at her medals ceremony Sunday night, Saunders stepped off the podium, lifted her arms above her head and formed an X with her wrists. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

U.S. committee defends Raven Saunders’ ‘respectful’ podium protest at Olympics

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 18, 2020, file photo, United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee CEO Sarah Hirshland listens during a briefing with the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Los Angeles 2028 organizers in Beverly Hills, Calif. A boycott of next year's Beijing Olympics will not solve any geopolitical issues with China and will only serve to place athletes training for the games under a “cloud of uncertainty,” according to a letter, Hirshland, the head of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee, wrote to Congress on Thursday, May 13, 2021. Her letter specifically addressed those who believe a boycott of the Winter Games next February would serve as an effective diplomatic tool to protest China's alleged abuses toward Uyghurs, Tibetans and Hong Kong residents. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) **FILE**

USOPC to Congress: Beijing Olympic boycott not the solution

By Eddie Pells - Associated Press

In this Jan. 18, 2020, file photo, Minnesota's Shane Wiskus competes during an NCAA gymnastics meet in Chicago. Wiskus is an Olympic hopeful who moved to the Olympic Training Center (OTC) in Colorado Springs after his college program, Minnesota, announced it would be shutting down its program. (AP Photo/Kamil Krzaczynsk, File). **FILE**

Olympic gold: Colleges, Team USA search for new ways to win

By Eddie Pells - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, file photo, people line up at the Artux City Vocational Skills Education Training Service Center at the Kunshan Industrial Park in Artux in western China's Xinjiang region. A small core of international lawyers and activists are prodding leading Olympic sponsors to acknowledge China's widely reported human-rights abuses against Muslim Uyghurs, Tibetans and other minorities.(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Rights groups and Olympic leaders in Beijing Games stalemate

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

In this Aug. 10, 2019, file photo, Gwen Berry of the United States waves as she is introduced at the start of the women's hammer throw final during athletics competition at the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. In the summer of 2019, U.S Olympic and Paralympic Committee CEO Sarah Hirshland reprimanded Berry and fencer Race Imboden for violating Rule 50, which prohibits inside-the-lines protests at the games, after Berry raised her fist and Imboden kneeled on the medals stand at the Pan-Am Games in Peru. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File) **FILE**

Listening to athletes, USOPC won’t punish Olympic protests

By Eddie Pells - Associated Press

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko attends a meeting on the work of the economy in the current year in Minsk, Belarus, Monday, Dec. 7, 2020. (Maxim Guchek/BelTA Pool Photo via AP)

IOC suspends Belarus president Lukashenko from Olympic Games

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

LA2028 unveils diversity logo; CEO preaches need for change

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2004, file photo, the Olympic Rings are shown in flames in a pool of water during the Opening Ceremony of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)

Olympics return to antiquity at the 2004 Athens Games

By CHRIS LEHOURITES - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 19, 1996, file photo, American swimmer Janet Evans passes the Olympic flame to Muhammad Ali during the 1996 Summer Olympic Games Opening Ceremony in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

A flame, a look, one of the Olympics’ most powerful moments

By PAUL NEWBERRY - Associated Press

In a photo provided by NBC Sports, Molly Solomon, executive producer and president of NBC's Olympics production unit, poses for a photo in March 2020. With the Summer Olympics postponed a year due to the coronavirus, Solomon and her team have reset their countdown clocks while trying to adjust to a new set of challenges. Any Olympics provides plenty of compelling storylines, but Solomon says Tokyo takes on bigger importance with everything that has transpired worldwide this year. (Zi Wang/NBC Sports via AP)

NBC resets focus for Tokyo while looking ahead to Beijing

By JOE REEDY - Associated Press

Brazil sets Olympic camp in Portugal due to pandemic at home

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

This aerial photo shows the New National Stadium, main stadium for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, in Tokyo, Tuesday, July 21, 2020. The postponed Tokyo Olympics have again reached the one-year-to-go mark. But the celebration is small this time with more questions than answers about how the Olympics can happen in the middle of a pandemic. That was before COVID-19 postponed the Olympics and pushed back the opening to July 23, 2021. (Kyodo News via AP)

Column: Olympic athletes ponder what might’ve been in Tokyo

By PAUL NEWBERRY - Associated Press

FILE - This April 6, 1896, file photo is a general view of the audience at the opening of the first modern Summer Olympic Games held in Athens, Greece. From that modest start in Athens with 241 participants in 43 events, the Olympics have ballooned to include 11,238 athletes vying for 306 gold medals at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro. More are expected for the Tokyo Olympics that were postponed one year because of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/File)

From Zeus to Athens, how the modern Olympics came to be

By JIMMY GOLEN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 10, 2019, file photo, Gwendolyn &quot;Gwen&quot; Berry of the United States waves as she is introduced at the start of the women's hammer throw final, during athletics competition at the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. Berry won the gold medal. The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee is signaling willingness to challenge longstanding IOC rules restricting protests at the Olympics, while also facing backlash from some of its own athletes for moves viewed by some as not being driven by sufficient athlete input. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

US Olympic leaders eye change on protests amid wary athletes

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 4, 2019, file photo, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach speaks at the Australian Olympic Committee annual general meeting in Sydney, Australia. During an interview with a German newspaper Sunday, April 12, 2020, Bach says the International Olympic Committee will face “several hundred million dollars”of added costs because of the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics until next year. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)

Study: Olympians should push for collective bargaining

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2019, file photo, Simone Biles of the United States gets ready to perform on the uneven bars in the women's all-around final at the Gymnastics World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany. Biles is pressing on to the 2021 Olympics. While she's confident her body will be fine next summer, she is concerned about the mental toll of another year of training. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, Fle)

Simone Biles on 2021 Olympics: ‘Nothing is set in stone’

By WILL GRAVES - Associated Press