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Bach: No decision on Russia until committees finish work

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

Eric Garcetti Mayor of Los Angeles, gestures as he arrives for the presentation of Los Angeles 2024 Candidate City Briefing for International Olympic Committee (IOC) Members, at the SwissTech Convention Centre, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Tuesday, July 11, 2017. (Valentin Flauraud/Keystone via AP)

IOC to pick Los Angeles, Paris for 2024 or 2028 Olympics

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb 12, 2010 file photo, North Korea's Song Chol Ri carries the flag during the opening ceremony for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, Canada. Seven months ahead of the Pyeongchang Olympics, many in South Korea, including new liberal President Moon Jae-in, hope to use the Games as a venue to promote peace with rival North Korea. To do so, the North’s participation is essential, but an ongoing nuclear tension and a lack of winter sports athletes in North Korea could ruin the attempts at reconciliation. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)

Pyeongchang Olympics are icy path to warmer Korean relations

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb 12, 2010 file photo, North Korea's Song Chol Ri carries the flag during the opening ceremony for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, Canada. Seven months ahead of the Pyeongchang Olympics, many in South Korea, including new liberal President Moon Jae-in, hope to use the Games as a venue to promote peace with rival North Korea. To do so, the North’s participation is essential, but an ongoing nuclear tension and a lack of winter sports athletes in North Korea could ruin the attempts at reconciliation. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)

Pyeongchang Olympics are icy path to warmer Korean relations

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

Intel signs up as top Olympic sponsor through 2024

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

International Olympic Committee, IOC, President Thomas Bach from Germany, speaks during a press conference after an executive board meeting, at the Olympic Museum, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Friday, June 9, 2017. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP)

IOC warns weightlifting it risks Olympic ouster over doping

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International Olympic Committee, IOC, President Thomas Bach from Germany attends the executive board meeting at the IOC headquarters, in Pully near Lausanne, Switzerland, Friday, June 9, 2017. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP)

IOC pushes plan to award 2024, 2028 Olympics to LA, Paris

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2016, file photo, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, second from left, is flanked by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, left, LA 2024 chairman Casey Wasserman, second from right, and UCLA chancellor Gene Block, right, during a news conference in Los Angeles. As the IOC moves the goalpost in the 2024 Olympic contest, bid leaders from Los Angeles and Paris head to a campaign event in Denmark on Tuesday, April 4, 2017 unsure of exactly what they are shooting for. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

LA, Paris share 2024 plans with Olympic leaders

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, left, welcomes her London counterpart, Sadiq Khan, before their meeting with the mayor of Seoul at the City Hall of Paris, France, Wednesday, March 29, 2017. The mayors of Paris, London and Seoul are creating a system to grade vehicles based on their emissions in real-life conditions, after growing uncertainty about automakers efforts to skirt rules intended to limit pollutants. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

LA, Paris head to 2024 Olympics event unsure of IOC’s goal

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach, left, is escorted by South Korea's Prime Minister and acting President Hwang Kyo-ahn for a meeting in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, March 14, 2017. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Pool Photo via AP)

IOC sets up group to look at double 2024-2028 Olympic picks

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FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 26, 2016 file photo, IOC President Thomas Bach speaks during the extraordinary FIFA congress in Zurich, Switzerland. Olympic leader Thomas Bach's grand plan was to streamline the Olympics, cut costs and encourage more cities to step up to try to host the games. Judged by the first round of bidding since the revamp, the plan, titled &quot;Agenda 2020,&quot; has failed. (AP Photo/Michael Probst File)

IOC suggests more changes needed in Olympic host bidding

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 26, 2016 file photo, IOC President Thomas Bach speaks during the extraordinary FIFA congress in Zurich, Switzerland. Olympic leader Thomas Bach's grand plan was to streamline the Olympics, cut costs and encourage more cities to step up to try to host the games. Judged by the first round of bidding since the revamp, the plan, titled &quot;Agenda 2020,&quot; has failed. (AP Photo/Michael Probst File)

2024: A tale of two cities and an uncertain Olympic future

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb.3, 2017 file photo, the Eiffel Tower lit up with colors for the Paris 2024 bid during the launch of its campaign as candidate for the 2024 Olympic summer games in Paris. Groups defending the French language are lodging legal protests over the English-only slogan used by Paris authorities bidding for the 2024 Olympics. Lawyer Emmanuel Ludot said Friday Feb; 17, 2017 that he has submitted a request with the government's rights defense authority to suspend use of the slogan &quot;Made for Sharing.&quot; (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

IOC’s Bach welcomes talk on 2024 and 2028 Olympic hosts pick

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

IOC chief Bach feels ‘inner rage’ at Russian doping scandal

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International Olympic Committee (IOC) president German Thomas Bach speaks during a media round table on the eve of an executive board meeting at the IOC headquarters, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Monday, Dec. 7, 2015. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP)

IOC president Bach wants life bans for proven Russian cheats

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

IOC President Thomas Bach speaks to the media following his meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Abe's official residence in Tokyo Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016. With Abe, Bach discussed the possibility of staging some Olympic events in the northeastern region of Japan hit by the 2011 tsunami and Fukushima disaster. &quot;Baseball and softball were some of the options under discussion,&quot; Bach said. (Yoshinobu Shimizu/Kyodo News via AP)

Bach proposes holding 2020 events in disaster area

By JIM ARMSTRONG - Associated Press

Bach urges European governments to help in anti-doping fight

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FILE - This is a Friday, Feb. 26, 2016 file photo of IOC President Thomas Bach as he speaks during the extraordinary FIFA congress in Zurich, Switzerland, Friday, Feb. 26, 2016. With the Russian doping scandal still causing discord across the international sports world, Olympic leaders will meet Saturday to consider ways of revamping a global drug-testing system battered by political disputes and a loss of public confidence. (AP Photo/Michael Probst File)

IOC calls on WADA to lead unified global anti-doping system

By GRAHAM DUNBAR and STEPHEN WILSON - Associated Press

FILE - This is a Friday, Feb. 26, 2016 file photo of IOC President Thomas Bach as he speaks during the extraordinary FIFA congress in Zurich, Switzerland, Friday, Feb. 26, 2016. With the Russian doping scandal still causing discord across the international sports world, Olympic leaders will meet Saturday to consider ways of revamping a global drug-testing system battered by political disputes and a loss of public confidence. (AP Photo/Michael Probst File)

Doping Discord: Olympic summit to seek unity in drug fight

By STEPHEN WILSON - Associated Press

Pope Francis meets Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee, ahead of a international conference on faith and sport, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016. (L'Osservatore Romano/Pool Photo via AP)

Bach not getting involved over ‘politics’ of Rome 2024 bid

By ANDREW DAMPF - Associated Press