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In this Friday, Jan. 26, 2018 photo, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike holds a brochures of a 2018 draft budget while speaking during a press conference in Tokyo. Koike explained the city will more than double the billions it is already budgeting to stage the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. However, the International Olympic Committee and Tokyo organizers say the city’s added costs are for many projects that would have been done - with our without the Olympics. (Noriko Kawamura/Kyodo News via AP)

2020 Tokyo Olympic costs keep rising despite efforts to cut

By STEPHEN WADE and MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, poses for a photo with Russian athletes who will take part in the upcoming 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games in South Korea, at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018. As punishment for what it deemed a doping scheme during the 2014 Sochi Olympics, the International Olympic Committee has invited 169 Russians to compete under a neutral flag using the name &quot;Olympic Athletes from Russia.&quot; (Grigory Dukor/Pool Photo via AP)

WADA recommends IOC use old doping sample bottles in SKorea

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IOC mistakenly invited banned Russian to Olympics as coach

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IOC confirms 169 Russian athletes invited to Winter Olympics

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Viktor Ahn wants IOC to explain why he can’t go to Olympics

By JAMES ELLINGWORTH - Associated Press

Russia announces 169-strong Olympic team, big names miss out

By JAMES ELLINGWORTH - Associated Press

Russian fans can fly the flag at Olympics, but no protests

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FILE - In this Feb. 15, 2014, file photo, men's 1,000-meter short track speedskating gold medalist Viktor Ahn, of Russia, gestures while holding his medal during the medals ceremony at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. The Russian Olympic Committee says Ahn, a six-time Olympic gold medalist, is among several top Russian athletes barred from the upcoming Pyeongchang Olympics amid the country’s ongoing doping scandal. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Russia says Ahn among top athletes barred from Olympics

By JAMES ELLINGWORTH - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 25, 2017 file photo, Vitaly Mutko, Russian Federation Deputy Prime Minister speaks to the media during a news conference following Russian Football Union meeting in Moscow, Russia. A new generation of young, talented and above all clean Russian athletes will compete at next month's Winter Olympics, Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko said in an interview Saturday Jan. 20, 2018. (AP Photo, File)

Mutko says Russia’s Olympic athletes will be young, clean

By JAMES ELLINGWORTH - Associated Press

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

FILE - In this Wednesday Dec. 6, 2017 file photo, the building of the Russian Olympic Committee is seen through a gate decorated with the Olympic rings in Moscow, Russia. The International Olympic Committee says it has created a pool of 389 Russians who are eligible to compete under a neutral flag at next month’s Winter Olympics amid the country’s doping scandal.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

IOC creates pool of Russians eligible for Winter Olympics

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Russians to get ‘neutral’ gray, red uniforms for Olympics

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FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2006, file photo, Korea's flag-bearers Bora Lee and Jong-In Lee, carrying a unification flag lead their teams into the stadium during the 2006 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Turin, Italy. When athletes of the rival Koreas walked together behind a single flag for the first time since their 1945 division at the start of the 2000 Sydney Olympics, it was a highly emotional event that came on the wave of reconciliation mood following their leaders’ first-ever summit talks. Eighteen years later, now, the Koreas are pushing to produce a similar drama during the upcoming Pyeongchang Olympics. But they haven’t generated as much enthusiastic supports as they had both at home and abroad. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta, File)

Olympic win in view from Korean unity at Pyeongchang Games

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

A South Korean soldier, left, and a police officer stand as vehicles carrying the South Korean delegation pass near Unification Bridge, which leads to the Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone in Paju, South Korea, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2018. South Korean delegation departed for Panmunjom on Wednesday morning for talks with North Korea to further discuss the North's paricipation in the upcoming Winter Olympics. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

The Latest: Tillerson says NK responsible for suffering

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FILE - In this April 6, 2017, file photo, women's ice hockey players of South Korea, in white, and North Korea, in red, pose for a photo with International Ice Hockey Federation officials after their Ice Hockey Women's World Championship Division II Group A game in Gangneung, South Korea. North and South Korea agreed on Monday, Jan. 15, 2018, in principle to field a joint women's ice hockey team during next month's Olympics in South Korea, and relayed their position to the International Olympic Committee. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

Koreas may field a joint women’s hockey team at Olympics

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

Olympics keeps ‘door open’ for NKorea at Pyeongchang Games

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FILE - In this Monday April 19, 2010 file photo, the then Dutch transport minister Camiel Eurlings attends a press conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands. International Olympic Committee member Camiel Eurlings has resigned amid allegations he assaulted a former girlfriend in 2015. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

IOC member resigns amid claim he assaulted former girlfriend

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2014 file photo, the Russian national flag, right, flies next to the Olympic flag during the closing ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. The word &quot;Russia&quot; will appear on the Olympic uniforms worn by the athletes granted an exemption from the country's doping ban. More than 200 athletes are set to compete in Pyeongchang as an &quot;Olympic Athlete from Russia&quot; if they can prove they aren't tainted by doping. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

Russia loses 2 more Olympic silver medals because of doping

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FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2014 file photo, the Russian national flag, right, flies next to the Olympic flag during the closing ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. The word &quot;Russia&quot; will appear on the Olympic uniforms worn by the athletes granted an exemption from the country's doping ban. More than 200 athletes are set to compete in Pyeongchang as an &quot;Olympic Athlete from Russia&quot; if they can prove they aren't tainted by doping. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

The word ‘Russia’ to appear on Olympic uniforms

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

Russian athletes vote with their ballots during an Russian Olympic committee meeting in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017. Russia's Olympic Committee said on Tuesday that Russian athletes are overwhelmingly in favor of competing at the 2018 Winter Games despite a ban on the national team. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

WADA shares Moscow lab evidence with Olympic sports bodies

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press