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Olympic rings are displayed in the snow at the Stelvio Ski Center, venue for the alpine ski and ski mountaineering disciplines at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics in Bormio, Italy, Jan. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)

Olympic program review opens path to relax Winter Games mandate for only sports on snow and ice

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

The pinnacles of the Duomo cathedral are lit by the afternoon declining sun and backdropped by the new Business Center in Milan, northern Italy, Jan. 4, 2017. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)

Milan’s Catholic archdiocese brings Olympic values into parish life

By María Teresa Hernández - Associated Press

Greek Women's National Water polo player Elena Xenaki lights the cauldron during the Olympic flame handover ceremony for the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics at Panathenaic stadium, in Athens, Greece, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Olympic flame for Milan Cortina Winter Games handed to Italian organizers in Athens

By Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

FILE - Kazakhstan's Gennady Golovkin smiles during a boxing news conference at New York's Madison Square Garden, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Gennadiy Golovkin to head up new Olympic boxing body ahead of LA Games

By James Ellingworth - Associated Press

President-elect Kirsty Coventry speaks during the handover ceremony of the IOC Presidency at Olympic House in Lausanne, Switzerland, Monday, June 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)

Olympics’ champion: New IOC president Coventry inaugurated to start 8-year leadership

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

American swimmer Gary Hall Jr. holds an original medal from Atlanta 1996, that melted during the wildfires in Los Angeles that destroyed his home earlier this year, while holding a replica of the Olympic medal that IOC President Thomas Bach presented to him during a ceremony at the Olympic House in Lausanne, Switzerland, Monday, May 5, 2025. (Denis Balibouse/Keystone/Reuters Pool via AP)

Olympic swim great Hall warded 10 medals to replace those destroyed in L.A. fires

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Newly elected International Olympic Committee IOC President Kirsty Coventry, second from right, is welcomed by officials at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe airport in Harare, Zimbabwe, Sunday, March 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Aaron Ufumeli)

Newly elected IOC President Kirsty Coventry celebrated on return home to Zimbabwe

By Farai Mutsaka - Associated Press

Kirsty Coventry gestures as she speaks after she was announced as the new IOC President at the International Olympic Committee 144th session in Costa Navarino, western Greece, Thursday, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Coventry elected IOC president and is first woman, first African to lead global Olympic body

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, left, and Greece's President Constantine Tassoulas arrive at the opening ceremony of the 144th IOC session, which will elect the new IOC President, at the Olympic Academy in ancient Olympia, western Greece, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Ancient Olympia hosts IOC candidates and voters two days ahead of presidential contest

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

FILE - President Jimmy Carter pauses during a speech to applaud the U.S. Olympic Committee's stand on the Moscow Olympics, Feb. 1, 1980, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Wilson, File)

Carter reflected on 1980 Olympic boycott: ‘A bad decision’

By Eddie Pells - Associated Press

Gold medalist in the the women's 66 kg boxing Algeria's Imane Khelif, left, and bronze medalist in the men's 800m Djamel Sedjati arrive after the 2024 Summer Olympics, Monday, Aug. 12, 2024, at Algiers airport, Algeria. (AP Photo/Anis Belghoul)

Algerian boxing that’s home to Imane Khelif joins global body trying to save Olympic status

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Gymnast Simone Biles, 3rd left, with her parents, sits next to IAAF president Sebastian Coe, and artist Snoop Dogg to watch an athletics session at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

Asked about seeking IOC presidency, track head Seb Coe says ‘of course I’m going to consider this’

By Eddie Pells - Associated Press

Silver medalist Spain's Ayoub Ghadfa, from left, gold medalist Uzbekistan's Bakhodir Jalolov and bronze medalists Germany's Nelvie Tiafack and France's Djamili-Dini Aboudou pose during a medals ceremony for the men's +92 kg final boxing match at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/John Locher)

World Boxing to announce major increase in membership after Paris in its bid to save Olympic boxing

By Greg Beacham - Associated Press

Algeria's Imane Khelif, left, fights Italy's Angela Carini in their women's 66kg preliminary boxing match at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Boxer Angela Carini could receive $50,000 award from banned IBA after her loss to Imane Khelif

By Greg Beacham - Associated Press

Pau Gasol arrives in Paris, France, before the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Olympic member Pau Gasol details risks to IOC, sports officials from FBI interest in doping case

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

France's Alexandre Lacazette celebrates after scoring his side's first goal during the men's Group A soccer match between France and the United States at the Velodrome stadium, during the 2024 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, July 24, 2024, in Marseille, France. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Le Clash: Bitter soccer rivals France and Argentina meet in Olympic quarterfinals amid a racism spat

By Jerome Pugmire - Associated Press

Simone Biles and the U.S. women celebrate as the 2024 team is named at the United States Gymnastics Olympic Trials on Sunday, June 30, 2024, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr, File) ** FILE**

U.S. packed with star power heading into Olympics

By Pat Graham - Associated Press

Philippine's Eumir Marcial, left, is punched by Ukraine's Oleksandr Khyzhniak during their middle weight 69-75kg semifinal boxing match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, on Aug. 5, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. Breakaway governing body World Boxing said Thursday April 11, 2024 it is holding talks with 25 to 30 prospective new member nations as it seeks to be the International Olympic Committee's preferred partner to run boxing tournaments at the Los Angeles Games in 2028. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)

Breakaway body World Boxing in talks with up to 30 new members as it seeks to run 2028 Olympic event

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FILE - Lamont Marcell Jacobs, of Italy poses with his gold medal following the men's 100-meters final at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Monday, Aug. 2, 2021, in Tokyo. Track and field is set to become the first sport to introduce prize money at the Olympics, with World Athletics saying Wednesday, April 10, 2024, it would pay $50,000 to gold medalists in Paris. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)

Track and field will pay Paris medalists prize money in Olympics first

By James Ellingworth - 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. Some Russian athletes will be allowed to compete at the 2024 Paris Olympics, the IOC said Friday, Dec. 8, 2023 in a decision that removed the option of a blanket ban over the invasion of Ukraine. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Many top Russian athletes faced minimal drug testing in 2023 ahead of next year’s Paris Olympics

By Eddie Pells - Associated Press