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International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach shakes hands with figure skater Annabelle Atkinson, 10, of Salt Lake City, as they talk at the Utah Olympic Oval in Kearns, Utah, Saturday, Sept. 28. 2024. (Isaac Hale/The Deseret News via AP)

Could a doping probe strip Salt Lake City of the 2034 Olympics? The IOC president says it’s unlikely

By Hannah Schoenbaum - Associated Press

The Chinese and the Olympic flag wave during the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Feb. 4, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File)

Lawyer says Chinese doping case handled ‘reasonably’ but WADA failed to follow its rules

By Eddie Pells - Associated Press

Jannik Sinner, of Italy, holds up the championship trophy after defeating Taylor Fritz, of the United States, in the men's singles final of the U.S. Open tennis championships, Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

WADA has 3 more weeks to appeal case that exonerated U.S. Open champ Jannik Sinner of doping

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Witold Banka, president of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), attends a press conference at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Thursday, July 25, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

What is WADA, why is the FBI investigating it and why is it feuding with U.S. anti-doping officials?

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox speaks about Salt Lake City's bid to host the 2034 Winter Olympics, during the 142nd IOC session at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, July 24, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

IOC awards 2034 Winter Games to Utah, pushes state to help end FBI probe

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

Michael Phelps, former Olympic athlete, testifies during a House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing examining Anti-Doping Measures in Advance of the 2024 Olympics, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, June 25, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Olympic champion swimmers tell Congress U.S. athletes have lost faith in anti-doping regulator

By Ben Nuckols - Associated Press

Swiss lawyer Eric Cottier looks on in Renens, Switzerland, March 3, 2016. The World Anti-Doping Agency has defended its choice of veteran Swiss prosecutor Eric Cottier to review how it handled the case of positive doping tests by 23 Chinese swimmers. WADA says Cottier is “entirely independent” of the agency and international sports. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP)

WADA defends pick of Swiss prosecutor under scrutiny in review of Chinese swimmers case

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

The Chinese and the Olympic flag wave during the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Feb. 4, 2022, in Beijing. In the two years before the World Anti-Doping Agency cleared 23 Chinese swimmers of doping allegations, that country’s government contributed nearly $2 million in additional funding to WADA programs, including one designed to strengthen the agency’s investigations and intelligence unit. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, file)

Chinese generosity in lead-up to cleared doping tests reflects its growing influence on WADA

By Eddie Pells - Associated Press

A Chinese flag is unfurled on the podium of a swimming event final at the 2020 Summer Olympics, on July 29, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. An Australian newspaper said Saturday, April 20, 2024, 23 Chinese swimmers were cleared to compete at the Tokyo Olympics despite testing positive to doping because world governing bodies agreed with Chinese authorities and ruled that the tests had been contaminated.(AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

WADA stands by decision to clear Chinese swimmers for Tokyo Olympics, citing contaminated samples

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Kamila Valieva, of the Russian Olympic Committee, reacts in the women's team free skate program during the figure skating competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Monday, Feb. 7, 2022, in Beijing. Russian figure skater Valieva has been disqualified from the 2022 Beijing Olympics. The verdict from the Court of Arbitration for Sport comes almost two years after Valieva's doping case caused turmoil at the Beijing Games. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Figure skater Valieva’s doping test disqualification clears way for U.S. to get gold

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

Test kit for human urine doping testing with A and B sample bottles are posed for photographs in London, Monday, Dec. 12, 2016. A 10-year global study of positive doping tests by children and young teenagers showed most sanctions came from Russia, India, and China and in weightlifting, athletics, and cycling. The World Anti-Doping Agency says diuretics, stimulants and anabolic steroids include stanozolol were the most commonly found substances. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

Global study of doping cases involving minors points to Russia, India and China

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Russian Kamila Valieva competes in the women's free skate program during the figure skating competition at the 2022 Russian Figure Skating Grand Prix, the Golden Skate of Moscow, at Megasport Arena in Moscow, Russia, on Oct. 23, 2022. Valieva will give evidence by video link and not come to Switzerland for a hearing into her doping case that rocked the 2022 Beijing Olympics. The Court of Arbitration for Sport says Valieva and Russian officials are among “parties, witnesses and experts” giving testimony remotely at a closed-doors hearing in Lausanne from Sept. 26-29. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Russian skater Valieva to testify by video link at CAS hearing into Beijing Olympics doping case

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

Russian Kamila Valieva competes in the women's free skate program during the figure skating competition at the 2022 Russian Figure Skating Grand Prix, the Golden Skate of Moscow, at Megasport Arena in Moscow, Russia, on Oct. 23, 2022. The World Anti-Doping Agency has appealed Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva's doping case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport and said Tuesday, Feb 21, 2023, it is seeking a four-year ban. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Russian agency also appeals in Valieva Olympic doping case

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United States sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson celebrates after winning the first heat of the semis finals in women's 100-meter run at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials on June 19, 2021, in Eugene, Ore. Cannabis use will stay banned at sports events after the World Anti-Doping Agency on Friday Sept. 23, 2022 resisted calls to change its status on the list of prohibited substances. The agency was asked to review the status of THC after the case of Richardson, who did not go to the Tokyo Olympics last year. She served a one-month ban on testing positive at the trials meet where she won the 100 meters. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File)

Marijuana stays on doping banned list; opiate tramadol added

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

Topi Raitanen, of Finland, celebrates as he crosses the finish line ahead of Ahmed Abdelwahed, of Italy, to win the gold medal in the Men's 3000 meters steeplechase during the athletics competition in the Olympic Stadium at the European Championships in Munich, Germany, Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

European medalist runner tests positive for meldonium

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Kamila Valieva, 15, of the Russian Olympic Committee, reacts after the women's team free skate program during the figure skating competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Monday, Feb. 7, 2022, in Beijing. The 2022 Games' first major scandal has managed to involve the 15-year-old figure skater who has tested positive for using a banned heart medication that may cost her Russia-but-not-really-Russia team a gold medal in team competition. Kamila Valieva continues to train even as her final disposition is considered, and she may yet compete in the women's individual competition, in which she is favored. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Doping hearing to decide Russian skater Kamila Valieva’s Olympic fate

By Graham Dunbar and James Ellingworth - Associated Press

Poland's Sports Minister Witold Banka speaks during an interview in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, March 18, 2019. The U.S. government paid its remaining $1.3 million in dues to the World Anti-Doping Agency but delivered a brusque message along with the check. A government official called its absence from the regulator’s decision-making boards a “sorry state of affairs.” WADA president Witold Banka called the release of the funds a sign of support from the U.S. government. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File) **FILE**

U.S. pays off WADA dues, rips agency board absence, decisions

By Eddie Pells - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 28, 2019 file photo 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. In the report detailing its decision to shorten Russia's ban from the Olympics, the highest court in sports blasted that country's leaders for engaging in “a cover up of the cover-up” in a desperate attempt to deny their culpability, but reduced the punishment nonetheless, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, file)

Russia’s team name, flag agreed on for next 2 Olympics

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 28, 2019 file photo 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. In the report detailing its decision to shorten Russia's ban from the Olympics, the highest court in sports blasted that country's leaders for engaging in “a cover up of the cover-up” in a desperate attempt to deny their culpability, but reduced the punishment nonetheless, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, file)

‘Cover up of cover-up’ still led to downsized Russian ban

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2014 file photo the Russian national flag, right, flies after it is hoisted next to the Olympic flag during the closing ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. The ruling on whether Russia can keep its name and flag for the Olympics will be announced on Thursday Dec. 17, 2020. The Court of Arbitration for Sport said Wednesday that three of its arbitrators held a four-day hearing last month in the dispute between the World Anti-Doping Agency and its Russian affiliate, known as RUSADA. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, file)

Russia can’t use its name and flag at the next 2 Olympics

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press