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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pays his respects to victims of a deadly helicopter crash during a farewell ceremony in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2023. Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky, his Deputy Yevhen Yenin, State Secretary Yurii Lubkovych, national police official and the three crew members were killed in a helicopter crash on Wednesday in Kyiv suburbs of Brovary. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Russia issue looms for Paris Olympics, Volodymyr Zelenskyy rebukes IOC

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

A Russian flag is held above the Olympic Rings at Adler Arena Skating Center during the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia on Feb. 18, 2014. Russia and its ally Belarus have been invited to compete at the Asian Games in the next step to qualify athletes for next year’s Paris Olympics. The arrangement has been brokered by the International Olympic Committee. The IOC indicated on Wednesday that it favours allowing Russians to compete at the 2024 Olympics as neutral athletes. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Russia’s path to 2024 Olympics takes shape, Ukraine objects

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International Olympic Committee, IOC, President Thomas Bach attends the opening of the Executive Board meeting at the Olympic House in Lausanne, Switzerland, Dec. 5, 2022. (Denis Balibouse/Keystone via AP, Pool)

Russia may join sports events in Asia ahead of 2024 Olympics

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The Olympic rings are set up at Trocadero plaza that overlooks the Eiffel Tower, a day after the official announcement that the 2024 Summer Olympic Games will be in the French capital, in Paris, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017. The budget for the 2024 Paris Olympics is expected to go up by 10%, in part because of high inflation, organizers said Tuesday, Nov.22, 2022. The organizing committee, known as COJO, had an original budget of around 4 billion euros ($4.1 billion) but will present a revised figure at a board meeting next month that is expected to reach 4.4 billion euros ($4.5 billion). (AP Photo//Michel Euler, File)

IOC warns Afghanistan over women’s sports and Olympics

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This photo provided by the Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne shows Yasser Hefny competing at a test event in Ankara, Turkey on June 28, 2022. (Augustas Didzgalvis/UIPM via AP) **FILE**

Modern pentathlon votes to swap horse riding with obstacles

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This photo provided by the Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne shows Sophie Hernandez competing at a test event in Ankara, Turkey on June 28, 2022. As it stands now, modern pentathlon — a sport in the Olympics for more than 100 years — would be off the program in its current form after the 2024 Paris Games. “Changes are not something we like. But we can adapt to it,&quot; modern pentathlete Sophie Hernandez of Guatemala said. “We have to move forward. Because we don’t want to lose the Olympics.”(Augustas Didzgalvis/UIPM via AP) **FILE**

Olympic pentathlon eyes ‘Ninja Warrior’ courses for survival

By Pat Graham - Associated Press

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, speaks during a press conference with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, July 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Zelenskyy praises IOC for supporting bans on Russian sport

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A Russian flag is held above the Olympic Rings at Adler Arena Skating Center during the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia on Feb. 18, 2014. The International Olympic Committee has made a sweeping move to isolate and condemn Russia over the country’s invasion of Ukraine. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

IOC calls for ban of Russian athletes from international events amid Ukraine invasion

By Jacob Calvin Meyer - The Washington Times

A man walking past the Russian Olympic Committee building casts a shadow on a window in Moscow, Russia on Nov. 18, 2015. The invasion of Ukraine could further undermine Russia's status as an elite sports dynasty, which already has been weakened by deception and doping scandals but often punished only by a tepid pushback from international sports bodies. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File) **FILE**

Ukraine invasion puts Russia’s elite sports status at risk

By Eddie Pells - Associated Press

FILE - United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee CEO Sarah Hirshland speaks during a press conference at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Feb. 4, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

US Olympic committee head says withholding medals ‘unfair’

By Eddie Pells - Associated Press

China Destroying the Spirit of the Olympic Games Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

China’s Olympic outrage no one wants to mention

By Katrina Lantos Swett

Kamila Valieva, of the Russian Olympic Committee, trains at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Monday, Feb. 14, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Russia skates again in another Olympics doping scandal

By Paul Newberry - Associated Press

Kamila Valieva, of the Russian Olympic Committee, trains at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Monday, Feb. 14, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Russian skater Kamila Valieva can compete, but medal ceremony won’t be held

By James Ellingworth and Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

Kamila Valieva, of the Russian Olympic Committee, falls during a training session at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Sunday, Feb. 13, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Olympic doping case ruling to be announced Monday afternoon

By Dave Skretta - Associated Press

China's Peng Shuai serves to Japan's Nao Hibino during their first round singles match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, on Jan. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Andy Brownbill, File) **FILE**

An Olympic question that won’t go away: Where is Peng Shuai?

By Stephen Wade - Associated Press

China's Peng Shuai serves to Japan's Nao Hibino during their first round singles match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, on Jan. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Andy Brownbill, File) **FILE**

China’s Peng Shuai calls scandal a ‘misunderstanding’ in controlled interview

By John Leicester - Associated Press

FILE - China's Peng Shuai serves to Japan's Nao Hibino during their first round singles match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, on Jan. 21, 2020. The controversy surrounding Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai’s accusations of sexual assault against a former top politician continues to cast a shadow of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games that officially begin on Friday, Feb. 4. 2022. Peng disappeared from public view in November, 2021, after accusing former Communist Party official Zhang Gaoli of sexual assault. (AP Photo/Andy Brownbill, File)

IOC president Bach says Peng Shuai can move freely in China

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

Student activists, some wearing masks with the colors of the pro-independence East Turkistan flag, shout slogans during a rally to protest the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games, outside the Chinese Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia on Jan. 14, 2022. The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics open in just over a week. When Beijing held the Summer Olympics in 2008 the International Olympic Committee predicted they could improve human rights, and Chinese politicians hinted at the same. There are no soaring promises this time. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana, File)

China less worried about global criticism these Olympics

By Stephen Wade - Associated Press

Swiss snowboarder Patrizia Kummer works out in her hotel room in Beijing on Jan. 19, 2022 where is undergoing a 21 day quarantine. Three weeks alone in a hotel room is hardly an ideal setting for a snowboarder preparing for the Olympics. Kummer, a Swiss competitor who won a gold medal at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, is unvaccinated against the coronavirus by choice, so she is spending 21 days in isolation in China before the Winter Games begin in Beijing on Feb. 4. (Patrizia Kummer via AP)

In 3-week isolation, unvaccinated Swiss athlete Patrizia Kummer waits for Olympics

By James Ellingworth - Associated Press

Student activists wear masks with the colors of the pro-independence East Turkistan flag during a rally to protest the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games, outside the Chinese Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Jan. 14, 2022. Dozens of students staged the rally demanding the cancellation of the Beijing Olympics over alleged human rights violations against Muslim Uyghur ethnic minority in China's region of Xinjiang. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

Olympic athletes urged by activists not to criticize China

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press