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On Friday, breaking makes its Olympics debut at the Place de la Concorde in Paris. This form of dance, created by Black youths in the Bronx in the early 1970s, [...]

The boy grew heavy on the milk, cream and butter of his grandmother's doting. By age 13, Neeraj Chopra weighed nearly 190 pounds, making him one of the biggest boys [...]

Byline: Bill Beckner Feb. 28Decathlete Corinn Brewer is working to change the Olympics. A lofty sounding goal? Yes. But not to the former Greensburg Central Catholic track and field standout [...]

Amélie Oudéa-Castéra's first year in office brought chaos at the Champions League final and scandals in multiple sports. With the Paris Olympics looming, her toughest days may be ahead. PARIS [...]

Vladyslav Heraskevych, who became Ukraine's most famous Olympian in 2022 because of the antiwar sign he held in front of a television camera days before Russia invaded his country, feels [...]

Ukraine's sports minister said his country was marshaling allies to press the International Olympic Committee to bar Russian and Belarusian athletes. Ukraine's sports minister on Friday renewed the country's threat [...]

Byline: Glynn A. Hill The International Olympic Committee on Wednesday reaffirmed plans to allow athletes from Russia and Belarus to compete at the 2024 Paris Olympics, despite protests by Ukrainian [...]

Byline: Les Carpenter Boxing's Olympic future remains very much in doubt after members of the sport's governing body, the International Boxing Association (IBA) voted against holding a presidential election last [...]

Lord Coe has urged countries planning to shun the Winter Olympics in China to think again because boycotts are 'historically illiterate'. The World Athletics president doubled down on his view [...]

Byline: Olympics By Molly McElwee Lord Coe has urged countries planning to shun the Winter Olympics in China to think again because boycotts are 'historically illiterate'. The World Athletics president [...]

Byline: CATHAL KELLY, Staff Lead When it became clear a week ago that NHLers would face the same pandemic hassles as everyone else at the Olympics, you could feel their [...]

China is not taking any chances with Covid-19 as it prepares for the National Games - a critical test for next year's Winter Olympics in Beijing. The host city Xian, [...]

Byline: STEPHEN WHYNO, JOHN WAWROW, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Lead The NHL is set to return to the Olympics in Beijing this winter after reaching an agreement with international officials, though [...]

Byline: Keith Bradsher and Tariq Panja For the Winter Games, just six months away, China plans far more elaborate Covid-19 precautions than were taken at the Summer Olympics. BEIJING - [...]

Byline: Ava Wallace TOKYO - In a vote that formalized what had been known since February, the International Olympic Committee named Brisbane the host of the 2032 Summer Games, the [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer TOKYO - There will be joy and drama, glory and grief, among Olympic competitors. But this summer's pandemic-era Games in Tokyo are destined to go down as [...]

Byline: Jennifer Hansler and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) -- A senior US official suggested Wednesday that the Winter Olympics beginning next week in China could affect Russian President Vladimir Putin's [...]

Byline: Eva Dou U.S. officials said that Washington's 'diplomatic boycott' of the Beijing Olympics will remain in place, with no high-level official spectators, though there are plans to send consular [...]

Byline: Jake Lourim Torri Huske grew up in one of the country's swimming hotbeds, a metro area that produced Katie Ledecky and others. She is one of the world's top [...]

Byline: Les Carpenter Beijing Olympics organizers are planning to allow spectators to attend at least some events at the 2022 Winter Games, but tickets will be sold only to residents [...]

Australia has once again won the bid for the Olympic Games with Brisbane to host in 2032 (less than 11 years to go). Governments are poised at the starting blocks, [...]

The selection of Seiko Hashimoto represented an abrupt shift after the Olympic committee had apparently intended to name another man in his 80s. TOKYO -- The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee [...]

Byline: STEVEN CHASE, Staff OTTAWA -- Lead Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole is urging Canada's minority Liberal government to press Olympic organizers to move the 2022 Winter Games out of China [...]

Byline: MARI YAMAGUCHI, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TOKYO -- Lead Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga vowed Monday to get the pandemic under control and hold the already postponed Olympics this summer [...]

Byline: LORI EWING, DONNA SPENCER, THE CANADIAN PRESS Lead When COVID-19 shut down the NCAA swimming season last March, Margaret Mac Neil packed up her car and drove home to [...]

Byline: Seth Robson and Hana Kusumoto YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan - One second separates a swimming instructor at the home of U.S. Forces Japan in western Tokyo from his dream [...]

The ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport reduced a four-year ban to two. It will keep Russian teams -- but not necessarily Russian athletes -- out of the [...]

The international gymnastics federation wants to push for parkour to be included in the Paris Games in 2024. It may not be up to them. Parkour, the video-friendly sport in [...]

Byline: Christopher Hope, Chief Political Correspondent The new national flagship to replace the Royal Yacht Britannia will be like the 2012 Olympics-people were suspicious about it until it became a [...]

Byline: Gerry Shih TAIPEI, Taiwan - In the run-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, activists and others called for a boycott to protest China's treatment of Tibetan minorities and its [...]

Byline: THE CANADIAN PRESS VICTORIA -- Lead VICTORIA Canada's men's basketball team will still get a chance to qualify at home for an Olympic berth. FIBA announced Thursday that four [...]

Several people who were on a conference call with Olympic organizers said later that there was confusion and dismay over whether and how the Games would proceed during a pandemic. [...]

Adam Ondra's Race to the Top BRNO, Czech Republic -- The world's best climber is a wiry 27-year-old with a curly mop of hair and a noticeably long neck. His [...]

Byline: CATHAL KELLY, Staff TORONTO -- Lead Six months out from a Summer Olympics, Canada has no idea what to expect. The average fan doesn't know who'll be in it, [...]