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International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach, center, chairs an IOC Executive Board meeting to discuss the Paris 2024 olympic plans and the upcoming editions of the Olympic Games, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023 in Paris. IOC executive board members will also meet with the Paris 2024 Organising Committee and visit a venue. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

IOC lines up French Alps to host 2030 Winter Olympics, Salt Lake City for 2034 edition

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

Fireworks, forming the Olympic rings, illuminate the sky during the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 4, 2022, in Beijing. (Li Xin/Xinhua via AP)

Several factors contribute to NBC’s low Olympic ratings

By Joe Reedy - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2018, file photo, Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right, and North Korea's nominal head of state Kim Yong Nam, second right, sit next to Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, left, as they arrive to watch the preliminary round of the women's hockey game between Switzerland and the combined Koreas at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea. Kim Yo Jong, the younger sister of Kim Jong Un, made the first-ever visit to the South by a member of the ruling Kim dynasty since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

Even in absence, North Korea’s presence felt at Tokyo Games

By Foster Klug - Associated Press

Alaska borough plans to bid to host 2024 Arctic Winter Games

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In this Dec. 1, 2020, file photo, a man wearing a protective face mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus walks with the Olympic rings in the background in the Odaiba section in Tokyo. Opposition to the Tokyo Olympics is growing with calls for a cancellation as virus cases rise in Japan. The International Olympic Committee and local organizers have already said another postponement is impossible, leaving cancellation, or going ahead, as the only options. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File) **FILE**

To cancel or not?: IOC, Japan press ahead with Tokyo Games

By Stephen Wade and Yuri Kageyama - Associated Press

Empire State Winter Games canceled because of COVID concerns

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Olympic Rings and a model of Misha the Bear Cub, the mascot of the Moscow 1980 Olympic Games, left, are seen in the yard of Russian Olympic Committee building in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2019. The WADA committee has proposed a package of sanctions including a four-year ban on hosting major events in Russia and a similar four-year sanction on Russians competing in top events like the Olympics, though they could enter as neutrals. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Russia faces next wave of punishment in endless doping saga

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

Vermont resort for ‘Bachelor Winter Games’ ordered to close

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Ski resort for ‘Bachelor Winter Games’ faces foreclosure

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Kim Eun-jung, of South Korea, throws during their women's curling final in the Gangneung Curling Centre at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea, Sunday, Feb. 25, 2018. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

The Latest: Bach hails Koreas cooperation at Olympics

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CORRECTS NAME FROM JORIEN TER MORE TO JORIEN TER MORS - Netherlands' Jorien ter Mors and Suzanne Schulting celebrate during their women's 3000 meters short track speedskating relay B final in the Gangneung Ice Arena at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Ter Mors medals in 2 different sports at same Winter Games

By RAF CASERT - Associated Press

CORRECTS: American Shaun White wins gold in men’s halfpipe; it’s the 100th gold medal for US in Wint

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A South Korean army soldier stands guard behind a poster showing the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympic mascot at the Unification Observation post in Goseong, near the border with North Korea, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 19, 2018. The rival Koreas agreed Wednesday to form their first unified Olympic team and have their athletes parade together for the first time in 11 years during the opening ceremony of next month's Winter Olympics in South Korea, officials said. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

IOC says North Korea to have 22 athletes in 5 Olympic sports

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

LA would support a US Winter Games, but it’s complicated

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

Salt Lake City’s Winter Games chances improved, expert says

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In this Friday, March 10, 2017 photo, Stefanie Sarason smiles as she talks about the photo surrounded by medals behind her that was published in the Seattle Times in 1985 and depicts her jumping on the first place podium before receiving her gold medal, at her Bainbridge Island, Wash., home. Sarason is heading to the Special Olympics World Games in Austria. (Meegan M. Reid/Kitsap Sun via AP)

Washington athlete going for gold at Special Olympics

By NATHAN PILLING - Associated Press

In a photo provided by NBC Olympics, NBC's Bob Costas prepares for broadcast at an anchor desk in Sochi, Russia, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2014. Costas plans to make his return to NBC on Monday after being off the air for a week with an eye infection. (AP Photo/NBC Olympics)

NBC keeps U.S. Olympics broadcast rights through 2032

By Stephen Wilson - Associated Press

In this photo released by Patrick Sandusky of the United States Olympic Committee, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Tomas Bach, right, and Chairman and CEO of Comcast Corporation Brian L. Roberts sign an agreement to secure the U.S. broadcast rights to the Olympics through to 2032 for NBC Universal, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 7, 2014. NBC secured the U.S. broadcast rights to the Olympics through 2032 on Wednesday in a record six-games deal worth $7.75 billion. NBC already holds the rights through the 2020 Olympics in a four-games deal signed in 2011 for $4.38 billion. (AP Photo/Patrick Sandusky, USOC)

NBC extends Olympic deal through 2032 for $7.75B

By STEPHEN WILSON - Associated Press

Games athletes encourage children to be active

By WESTON MORROW - Associated Press

A passenger checks the status of flights at the Sochi Airport following the 2014 Winter Olympics, Monday, Feb. 24, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

Sochi Olympics: As the world departs, clean up begins

By Ted Anthony - Associated Press