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Fans will need to pre-register for free tickets to Paris' gargantuan 2024 Olympic opening ceremony
PARIS (AP) — To pull off the most audacious opening ceremony in Olympic history, French organizers are now — literally — on the same page. France's government, the organizing committee president for the 2024 Paris Games and the French capital's mayor signed an 11-page security...
Olympic reform panel starts work: 'Opportunity to think big'
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A Congressionally formed panel exploring the inner-workings of the U.S. Olympic enterprise hinted at proposing potentially radical changes to a business that has been operating under the same framework for more than 40 years. “We tend to make sport...
Paris Olympics vows to carry the torch for LGBTQ rights after watershed of Tokyo
PARIS (AP) — Organizers of the Paris Olympics, who gave rainbow colors to their logo Wednesday to mark the international day against homophobia, transphobia and biphobia, aren't limiting themselves to promises of inclusive Games next year. They say they also intend to seize on the Olympic...
IOC puts trust at risk by seeking ways to allow Russia to compete at Olympics, EU official tells AP
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union's presidency urged the International Olympic Committee to ban Russian and Belarusian athletes from next year's Paris Games, yet said Monday a boycott by the 27-nation bloc is not on the table. Swedish sports minister Jakob Forssmed told The...
NBC will air most of marquee Olympic events from Paris live during daytime
Swimming, gymnastics and track & field fans can rejoice. For the first time in a European Olympics, those event finals will be televised live on network television in the United States. NBC will have at least nine hours of weekday daytime coverage, expanding to at least 11 hours...
Michael Jordan's famed 'Dream Team' Olympic jacket heading to auction
The jacket that Michael Jordan famously and grudgingly wore while receiving an Olympic gold medal has been in Brian McIntyre’s possession for more than three decades now. He figures the time is right to let someone else enjoy it. The red, white and blue Reebok jacket...
Next frontier in France's protests: Fake Olympic volunteers
PARIS (AP) — Retired and with time to kill, Bernard Gauvain wants to be a volunteer at the 2024 Olympics — but a bad one. His intention is not to help out, but to gum up the Olympic machine by refusing to turn up for work. If others do likewise in sufficient numbers, he hopes...
European lawmakers urge for Olympics ban on Russia, Belarus
GENEVA (AP) — European lawmakers urged the International Olympic Committee on Tuesday to exclude Russian and Belarusian athletes from the 2024 Paris Games rather than keep seeking ways to let them compete as neutrals in international sport. The 46-nation Parliamentary Assembly of...
Indigenous competitors celebrate culture and sport in Brazil
PIACAGUERA INDIGENOUS LAND, Brazil (AP) — As a bonfire lit by children finished burning, the winners at the first Indigenous Games of Peruibe calmly welcomed their wooden medals around their necks with little fanfare otherwise. The spectators, though, screamed and howled around the...
France under pressure over disabled rights as Olympics loom
PARIS (AP) — Pascale Ribes and other campaigners for the rights of people with disabilities in France have an invite to meet the French president Wednesday. But because she uses a wheelchair, Ribes won't risk traveling by public transport to the conference at the presidential Elysee Palace. ...
