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Munich bid leader resigns due to health problems (AP)

Olympics - Mon, 09/06/2010 - 11:20am

The leader of Munich's bid for the 2018 Winter Olympics resigned for health reasons Monday, leaving figure skating great Katarina Witt with a more prominent role in the campaign. Willy Bogner announced last week that he had an unspecified bowel disease. On Monday, he said he was stepping down after doctors recommended he avoid long-distance travel.

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Lord's on target on cricket-to-archery changes (AP)

Olympics - Mon, 09/06/2010 - 11:00am

Organizers say Lord's cricket ground has been granted permission to begin making changes for the archery competition at the 2012 Olympics. Temporary facilities and structures -- such as a range and seating for 5,000 spectators -- can now be installed at the famous ground. Archery will be held for a week at Lord's during the London Games, and Monday's decision on preparations was largely...

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London 2012 plans for archery at Lord's given go-ahead (Reuters)

Olympics - Mon, 09/06/2010 - 11:00am

Cricket will make way for archery at the historic Lord's ground in two years' time after London 2012 organisers got the go-ahead for their plans on Monday.

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Champion Kim Yu-na to train in Los Angeles (AP)

Olympics - Mon, 09/06/2010 - 4:30am

Olympic figure skating champion Kim Yu-na is moving her training base from Canada to California. Kim's management agency AT Sports says that the 20-year-old South Korean is training at the East West Ice Palace in Artesia in the outskirts of Los Angeles. The agency says that Kim, who parted ways with Brian Orser last month, doesn't have a new coach yet.

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WADA reports breakthrough in gene doping tests (AP)

Olympics - Fri, 09/03/2010 - 2:54pm

Two groups of scientists have developed tests for gene doping in what the World Anti-Doping Agency hailed Friday as a major breakthrough in fighting the next frontier in cheating in sports. Scientists in Germany said they have come up with a blood test that can provide "conclusive proof" of gene doping, even going back as far as 56 days from when the doping took place.

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Rio picks 2016 Olympics logo for NY Eve unveiling (AP)

Olympics - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 4:47pm

Rio organizers have chosen the logo for the 2016 Olympics, but it won't be unveiled until an official ceremony on New Year's Eve on Copacabana beach. The logo's design was picked from eight finalists on Thursday and will now be sent to the International Olympic Committee for approval. Rio 2016 committee president Carlos Arthur Nuzman says "a historic" phase of the games has...

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Figure staking: Lysacek won't compete in 2010 (AP)

Olympics - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 3:40pm

Olympic gold medalist Evan Lysacek is taking some time off. How much time off, he hasn't decided. Lysacek said Thursday he won't compete the rest of this year, meaning he will skip the Grand Prix season. But he still wants to skate, and hasn't ruled out the U.S. championships in mid-January.

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Rogge: Cricket scandal highlights bigger problem (AP)

Olympics - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 3:26pm

IOC president Jacques Rogge believes the cricket match-fixing scandal shows that illegal betting has become as big a blight on sports as doping. Without taking any stand on the fixing allegations against three Pakistan cricketers, Rogge said Thursday the main problem for sports across the globe was illegal companies betting on incremental parts of a game.

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Ducks beware: 2012 triathlon heads to Hyde Park (AP)

Olympics - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 2:28pm

Triathletes at the 2000 Olympics had to negotiate Sydney's shark-infested harbor, so the ducks and geese of London's Hyde Park seem unlikely to cause much fear in 2012. Revealing their plans for the first "downtown" triathlon since the event's debut at the Sydney Games, the London 2012 Olympic organizers also promised that the park's thriving wildlife would not be unduly...

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Munich 2018 board says bid chief illness no obstacle (Reuters)

Olympics - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 9:40am

Munich's bid to stage the 2018 Winter Olympics will not be derailed by bid chief Willy Bogner's illness, the head of Munich's supervisory board said on Thursday.

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Blair: Berlusconi helped London win 2012 Olympics (AP)

Olympics - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 3:20pm

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair credits Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi with helping London secure the 2012 Olympics. Blair also says in his new autobiography that he was dubious about bidding for the games, never thought London would win and feared being "humiliated" by losing to the French.

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Ashley chosen new USOC chief of sport performance (AP)

Olympics - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 10:49am

The U.S. Olympic Committee has picked Alan Ashley as its new chief of sport performance, part of a restructuring after a six-month internal review by CEO Scott Blackmun. Ashley, who was the managing director of sport performance, takes over for Mike English, who will move into a position that oversees the Olympic Training Centers and other USOC facilities.

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Key critic during time of USOC turmoil steps down (AP)

Olympics - Tue, 08/31/2010 - 12:54pm

One of the key critics of the U.S. Olympic Committee during its CEO switch has left his job as the leader of USA Triathlon. The federation announced the departure of executive director Skip Gilbert in a brief news release, offering no explanation. Gilbert also leads the council of America's national governing bodies, though his future role there was not explained.

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Media Accreditation Begins for 2012 (AP)

Olympics - Tue, 08/31/2010 - 8:44am

Sports Editors: The U.S. Olympic Committee is accepting requests from media organizations for accreditation to the 2012 Olympic Games in London. The application form is available through the USOC's media-specific site, USOCPressbox,org. Click here to go to the request site: http://pressbox.teamusa.org/Pages/Credentials.aspx.

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Freeman to rekindle her flame lighting 10 years on (AP)

Olympics - Tue, 08/31/2010 - 2:17am

Cathy Freeman will once again light the cauldron when Sydney celebrates the 10th anniversary of an Olympics which the then IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch called the "best Olympic Games ever." On Sept. 15, 2000, Freeman was dressed in a full-length white body suit to light the flame atop the Olympic stadium.

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London marks 2-year countdown to Paralympics (AP)

Olympics - Fri, 08/27/2010 - 2:10pm

London will mark the two-year countdown to the homecoming of the Paralympics on Sunday, celebrating the growing prominence of the event and its start in England in 1948. More than 500,000 people have already registered interest in buying tickets on the London 2012 website for the 12-day event, and organizers hope to attract a global TV audience of 4 billion.

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Utah sliding track manager David Dinger dies at 45 (AP)

Olympics - Fri, 08/27/2010 - 9:41am

The man who managed the bobsled, skeleton and luge track at Utah Olympic Park for much of the last decade has died at 45. The U.S. Bobsled and Skeleton Federation said David Dinger died Wednesday from kidney cancer. Dinger's career in sliding started after a luge clinic, shortly before the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics.

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Water polo venue for London 2012 to get inflatable roof (Reuters)

Olympics - Fri, 08/27/2010 - 6:07am

Planners have given London 2012 Olympic organisers permission to build a temporary water polo centre with an inflatable roof.

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Canada's Wickenheiser: 2014 Olympics might be last (PA SportsTicker)

Olympics - Thu, 08/26/2010 - 2:39pm

Canadian women's hockey star Hayley Wickenheiser isn't sure if she'll retire after the 2014 Sochi Olympics, when she'll be 35.

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Rogge says Youth Olympics to have better athletes (PA SportsTicker)

Olympics - Thu, 08/26/2010 - 2:38pm

By ALEX KENNEDY Associated Press Writer

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