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This June 2, 2016 photo shows a Visa payment ring near a payment terminal in New York. Visa, a 30-year Olympics sponsor, is the official payment provider of the Olympics, providing payment infrastructure for the games themselves. This year they are giving 59 of their Olympic athletes a wearable ring that can be used to pay for things by tapping the ring on a payment terminal. (Charles Sykes/AP Images for VISA)

Olympics offers showcase for tech such as VR, payments ring

By MAE ANDERSON and RYAN NAKASHIMA - Associated Press

United States' Michael Phelps walks past the Olympic rings during a swimming training session prior to the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Michael Phelps chosen to be U.S. flag bearer at Olympics in Rio

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FILE - In this Aug. 23, 2014, file photo, Simone Biles smiles after getting her gold medal at the gymnastics U.S. Championships in Pittsburgh. Theres money to be made if you end up standing atop the podium at the Olympics with The Star Spangled Banner playing and your sports most coveted prize draped over your neck. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

Simone Biles, Laurie Hernandez don’t have power outlets in Olympic Village

By Tommy Chalk

In this Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015 photo, archers check the targets during the first day of the archery test event for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Rio's Olympics next year should be a tour guide's delight with many of its most famous landmarks transformed for two weeks into sports venues for South America's first Games. The Sambadrome, home of the city's raucous Carnival parade, has been transformed into a venue for archery and the start and finish of the marathon. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

TRAVEL OLYMPICS: Rio Olympics tourist’s delight: Samba to Copa to Maracana

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

This undated photo provided by the Los Angeles Police Department shows a missing person's poster for Andi Gusmari, 44, an Albanian athlete who disappeared Aug. 1, 2015, from the Special Olympics in Los Angeles. Gusmari, a bowling competitor, disappeared from the University of Southern California sometime that night, but turned up safe Aug. 3 in Hayward, Calif. (Los Angeles Police Department via Associated Press)

Missing Special Olympics athlete turns up 350 miles away

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This architect's rendering released Monday, June 29, 2015, by the Boston 2024 planning committee shows an Olympic stadium that is proposed to be built in Boston if the city is awarded the Summer Olympic games in 2024. The Boston group trying to land the Olympics released the most detailed look yet at its bid for the Summer Games, unveiling a $4.6 billion plan it says would create jobs and housing, expand the tax base and leave behind an improved city with a $210 million surplus. (Elkus Manfredi Architects for Boston 2024 via AP)

Boston 2024 Olympics organizers update $4.6B bid

By JIMMY GOLEN and PHILIP MARCELO - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 19, 2015, file photo, U.S. first lady Michelle Obama delivers her speech as she meets with soldiers and their families at the U.S. Army Garrison Vicenza, northern Italy. The first lady is coming to Los Angeles next month to kick off the Special Olympics World Games, organizers announced Thursday, June 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, File)

Michelle Obama to open 2015 Special Olympics in Los Angeles

By JOHN ROGERS - Associated Press

Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams, left, and State of Utah Lt. Governor Spencer Cox turn on the &quot;Lighting Ceremony&quot; celebrating the solar array project of panels built on top of the parking cover outside of the Utah Olympic Oval with creates enough power to take over 500 homes off the power grid Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014, in Kearns. (AP Photo/The Deseret News, Tom Smart, Deseret News)

Salt Lake City optimistic about future Olympic bid

By Brady McCombs - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 28, 2012 file photo, British children pose for photos under a sculpture of the Olympics rings, in Coventry, England. Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington are the cities still in the running for a possible U.S. bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

D.C. among 4 U.S. cities vying for 2024 Summer Olympics

By Eddie Pells - Associated Press