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People watch the official ceremony of the flame lighting for the Paris Olympics, at the Ancient Olympia site, Greece, on April 16, 2024. Officials in Ancient Olympia are protesting the decision to hold the next International Olympic Committee session in a neighbouring region of southern Greece, rather than at the birthplace of the Olympic Games. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)

Officials in Ancient Olympia upset at venue to choose new IOC president

Associated Press

The Seine River isn't the only river in the world contaminated by waste. But unlike a sporting event where locations can be changed, people dependent on dirty water for drinking and cooking have nowhere else to turn. Photo courtesy of The Bucket Ministry, photo taken in Kibera, Kenya.

The Olympics 2024 Seine River water quality saga points to a worldwide issue

By Christopher Beth – Special to Higher Ground

French gendarmes patrol the Trocadero plaza near the Eiffel Tower after a man targeted passersbys late saturday, killing a German tourist with a knife and injuring two others in Paris, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023. Police subdued the man, a 25-year-old French citizen who had spent four years in prison for a violent offense. After his arrest, he expressed anguish about Muslims dying, notably in the Palestinian territories. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

The fatal stabbing of a German tourist by a suspected radical puts sharp focus on the Paris Olympics

By Elaine Ganley - Associated Press

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian invites questions during a press conference in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021. China on Tuesday accused the United States of violating the Olympic spirit by announcing an American diplomatic boycott of February's Beijing Winter Games. (AP Photo/Liu Zheng)

China fumes, Uyghurs cheer, EU shrugs about U.S. diplomatic boycott of Beijing Olympics

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

FILE - This Aug. 11, 2019 file photo shows Visa credit cards in New Orleans. U.S. consumers increased their borrowing in December 2020 by $9.7 billion, as Americans took out loans to buy autos or finance their educations. But credit card use declined for the third-consecutive month. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Congress should address predatory swipe fees

By Kaelan Dorr

The Olympic flame burns as athletes and volunteers carry flags during the closing ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Mixed bag: Erratic Pandemic Olympics come to a nuanced end

By Ted Anthony - Associated Press

In this July 8, 2021, file photo, first lady Jill Biden delivers remarks before the start of the finals of the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee at Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. She will attend the opening ceremony of the summer Olympic games in Tokyo. The White House announced the trip Tuesday, even as the city has entered a new state of emergency over a rise in coronavirus cases. (AP Photo/John Raoux) ** FILE **

Jill Biden to stop in Alaska on her way to Tokyo Olympics

By Darlene Superville - 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

Tokyo Olympics: Costs hit almost $25 billion _ may go higher

By STEPHEN WADE and MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 2, 2016, file photo, Team Visa athlete Ibtihaj Muhammad leads an interactive fencing demonstration in New York. This year more than ever, the so-called ``face'' of the Olympics could be a wrestler, or a fencer, or an athlete who most of the world has never heard of before. Visa, an Olympic sponsor for the past three decades, has a long list of the well-known _ Walsh-Jennings, Franklin, Carli Lloyd _ along with those who are not yet household names. Namely, Muhammad, the Muslim fencer who chose her sport in part because it allowed her to compete while wearing a hijab. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File)

Faith and religion at the 2016 Olympic Games

By Billy Hallowell - Deseret News

FILE - In this Feb. 7, 2014 file photo the Russian and the Olympic flags wave during the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Olympic leaders met Tuesday, June 21, 2016 to consider further steps to crack down on doping ahead of the games in Rio de Janeiro in the wake of the ban on Russian track and field athletes. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, file)

IOC leaders stop short of complete ban on Russians from Rio

By Graham Dunbar and Stephen Wilson - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016, file photo, a health workers stands in the Sambadrome spraying insecticide to combat the Aedes aegypti mosquito that transmits the Zika virus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

CDC study: Olympics unlikely to spark Zika virus tranmission; four nations at risk, though

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Rep. Lamar Smith and other Republicans claim that the EPA's objectivity in assessing Alaska's Pebble Mine was suspect at best. (Associated Press)

Lamar Smith, House Science chairman, calls on Obama administration to raise Zika travel alert

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

The Nationals acquired Matt den Dekker from the Mets and signed Reed Johnson (pictured) to a minor-league deal on Monday to serve as reinforcements for an outfield besieged by injuries. (Associated Press photographs)

The Conversation: Reed Johnson on his path from childhood gymnastics to professional baseball

By Tom Schad - The Washington Times

United States' Todd Lodwick waves after his attempt during the ski jumping portion of the Nordic combined Gundersen large hill team competition at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Lodwick ends Olympics having ‘most fun out there’

By MATTIAS KAREN - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin pets a snow leopard cub at the snow leopard sanctuary in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. Putin checked in Tuesday at a preserve for endangered snow leopards and visited a group of cubs born last summer in the mountains above the growing torrent of activity in Sochi for the Winter Games. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

Putin strokes leopard, wins IOC support

By STEVEN R. HURST and STEPHEN WILSON - Associated Press

Obama: Olympics will show US belief in equality

Associated Press

World Cup hotels costlier than Olympics in Brazil

By TALES AZZONI - Associated Press