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This chart obtained by The Associated Press shows the U.S. Olympic Committee's medal projections for the 2018 Winter Games in a slide presented last year to the USOC board. The USOC targeted 37 medals for Team USA in Pyeongchang, South Korea. (AP Photo)

AP Exclusive: Medal haul well short of USOC projections

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2018 file photo, Shani Davis competes in the men's 1,500 meters during the U.S. Olympic long track speed skating trials, in Milwaukee. A tweet posted to the account of Davis is blasting the selection of luge athlete Erin Hamlin as the U.S. flagbearer for the opening ceremony at the Pyeongchang Games. The tweet says the selection was made &quot;dishonorably,&quot; and included a reference to Black History Month in a hashtag. Hamlin and Davis each got four votes in the final balloting of the athlete-led process. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Column: US drops the coin on flag bearer at Winter Olympics

By PAUL NEWBERRY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2015 file photo, USOC Chairman of the Board Larry Probst speaks during a news conference in Boston after Boston was picked by the USOC as its bid city for the 2024 Olympic Summer Games. Leaders of the U.S. Olympic Committee said they have no plans to part ways with CEO Scott Blackmun and will wait for results from an independent investigation into the federation's handling of sex-abuse complaints from gymnasts before making any major moves. Probst used the USOC's traditional pre-Olympics news conference Friday, Feb. 9, 2018, to apologize to the hundreds of gymnasts abused by Larry Nassar, who served as a doctor for the U.S. Olympic gymnastics team. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson, File)

USOC wants full investigation before deciding CEO’s future

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

FILE- In this Feb. 5, 2018 file photo, Defense attorney Matthew Newberg, left, signs court documents after Judge Janice Cunningham sentenced Larry Nassar, right, at Eaton County Circuit Court in Charlotte, Mich. After #MeToo erupted from sexual assault and harassment claims against movie producer Harvey Weinstein, former sports doctor Larry Nassar's sexual assault sentencing this year became its own powerful forum for speaking out. (Cory Morse /The Grand Rapids Press via AP)

Support for investigation of US Olympic Committee grows

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Team USA “mom” provides maternal support, love to athletes

By RACHEL ESTABROOK - Associated Press

Solo files complaint with USOC over US Soccer Federation

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Demonstrators gather at "The Rock" on Michigan State University's East Lansing, Mich., campus to support victims of disgraced former sports doctor Larry Nassar and call for more changes in leadership at the university. (Dale G. Young/Detroit News via AP)

House OKs bill requiring coaches to report youth sex abuse allegations in 24 hours

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Former Olympian Aly Raisman confronts Larry Nassar in Circuit Judge Rosemarie Aquilina's courtroom during the fourth day of a sentencing hearing for the former sports doctor, who pled guilty to multiple counts of sexual assault, Friday, Jan. 19, 2018, in Lansing, Mich. (Matthew Dae Smith /Lansing State Journal via AP)

US Olympic Committee announces investigation amid scandal

Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 1, 2017, file photo, Scott Blackmun, CEO of the U.S. Olympic Committee, speaks at Yongsan Garrison, a U.S. military base in Seoul, South Korea. Blackmun the leader of the U.S. Olympic Committee says the plan is to take a team to the Pyeongchang Games &quot;unless it's legally or physically impossible.&quot; CEO Scott Blackmun spoke Friday, Dec. 8, 2017 after a board meeting, (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

USOC aims to go to Olympics unless ‘physically impossible’

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 29, 2017, file photo, Nikki Haley, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, speaks during a Security Council meeting on the situation in North Korea, at United Nations headquarters. The U.S. Olympic Committee still plans on bringing teams to the Pyeongchang Games in February despite U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley casting doubt on U.S. participation. In an interview Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017, with Fox News Channel, Haley was asked if it's an open question about whether the U.S. team will compete at the Olympics in South Korea, given the tensions on the Korean Peninsula. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File) **FILE**

U.S. team still planning for Olympics despite confusion

By Eddie Pells - Associated Press

USOC says there’s interest in hosting Winter Olympics

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

USOC: No sign of compromised security in South Korea

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

AP Source: USOC to receive fixed amount in deal with LA

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2012, file photo, United States Olympic Committee Chairman Larry Probst, right, and USOC CEO Scott Blackmun are shown during an interview in London. It took eight years, a nice-sized dose of humble pie and more than a few failures, but Blackmun and Probst succeeded. The International Olympic Committee will award Los Angeles the 2028 Games at a ceremony on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017. It will be the first Summer Olympics awarded to the U.S. in 27 years, when the IOC gave the 1996 Games to Atlanta. It will end a string of embarrassing losses: New York for 2012, and Chicago for 2016. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Tough task: USOC tamped down discord to help LA get Games

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 11, 2017 file photo, Casey Wasserman chairman of Los Angeles 2024, answers questions during a news conference after the presentation of Los Angeles 2024 Candidate City Briefing for International Olympic Committee (IOC) Members, at the SwissTech Convention Centre, in Lausanne, Switzerland. Over the next five weeks, leaders from LA and the U.S. Olympic Committee have to iron out financial details about their joint marketing agreement that will figure heavily into the USOC's ability to fund its athletes and sports organizations through those 2028 Games. Sorting out the agreement is one of the biggest hurdles to clear before the IOC meets the week of Sept. 11 in Lima, Peru, to approve Paris to host the 2024 Olympics and Los Angeles for 2028.(Valentin Flauraud/Keystone via AP)

Not so fast: LA still has business to settle on road to ‘28

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

File- This Aug. 22, 2008, file photo shows Steven Lopez of the US, right, celebrating with his brother and coach Jean after defeating Azerbaijan's Rashad Ahmadov in a bronze medal match for the men's taekwondo -80 kilogram class at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing. USA Today reported Friday, June 9, 2017, that USA Taekwondo began investigating claims against Steven and Jean Lopez more than two years ago after multiple women said the brothers sexually assaulted them. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

Report: Olympic taekwondo brothers accused of sexual abuse

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - At left, in an Aug. 10, 2016, file photo, United States's Nate Ebner, front left, is tackled by Brazil's Stefano Giantorno, left back, during the men's rugby sevens match at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. At right, in a Feb. 1, 2015, file photo, New England Patriots defensive back Nate Ebner (43) run onto the field before the NFL Super Bowl XLIX football game against the Seattle Seahawks, in Glendale, Ariz. The quest for gold and America's insatiable appetite for reality television are merging this summer with an Olympic scouting camp that will ultimately be packaged as a one-episode reality show. Patriots special teamer Nate Ebner is one of three players to wear NFL uniforms who went on to earn a spot on the U.S. rugby team in the reintroduction of that sport to the Olympics last year. (AP Photo/File)

Reality check: USOC on board with made-for-TV scouting camp

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2016, file photo, United States' Kerri Walsh Jennings stands on the podium after winning the bronze medal in the women's beach volleyball competition of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. More than 100 athletes from around the world say the medals they won at the Rio Olympics are damaged. The IOC and Rio organizers plan to replace them with new medals. Among those with defective medals are beach volleyball star Kerri Walsh Jennings who says her bronze medal from last summer is flaking and rusting. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Faster, higher, rustier: Medals from Rio Olympics damaged

By LUKE MEREDITH and EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

FILE - This June 30, 2015 file photo shows U.S. Olympic Comittee Chairman Larry Probst speaking during a news conference in Redwood City, Calif. Tucked into the more than $257 million the U.S. Olympic Committee spent in 2016 was a $10 million payment to the International Olympic Committee designed, in part, to give the United States a better chance of hosting an Olympics someday — possibly in Los Angeles in 2024. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, file)

USOC paid its way back into bidding game; LA could benefit

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

Senate panel releases USOC abuse-prevention documents

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press