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Ticket prices for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics range from 30 to nearly 3,000 euros

Oct. 03, 2024 12:34 PM EDT

MILAN (AP) — Ticket prices for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics range from 30 euros ($33) for men’s and women’s hockey preliminary games all the way up to nearly 3,000 euros ($3,300) for the most costly seats at the closing ceremony inside Verona’s Arena, a large Roman amphitheater. ...

Simone Biles' post-Olympic tour is helping give men's gymnastics a post-Olympic boost

Oct. 03, 2024 11:14 AM EDT

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Simone Biles simply wanted to mix it up when the gymnastics superstar invited some of the top American men to join her post-Olympic Tour. “Bringing the guys on board was designed to show what men’s gymnastics has to offer,” Biles said. “And I just think...

Japanese sponsors Toyota, Bridgestone and Panasonic end Olympic contracts

Oct. 01, 2024 20:48 PM EDT

TOKYO (AP) — The International Olympic Committee's three major Japanese sponsors — Toyota, Panasonic and Bridgestone — are terminating their contracts. This leaves the IOC without a Japanese sponsor with the focus now expected to shift to the Middle East and India for new...

NHL season has international flavor with the 4 Nations Face-off as a Winter Olympics appetizer

Oct. 01, 2024 15:58 PM EDT

Nico Hischier grew up in Switzerland dreaming of playing in the Winter Olympics. “I’ve never gotten to experience that,” he said. The countdown is underway for Hischier, who hopes to join the NHL's best at the Olympics in Milan in February 2026. This season...

Could a doping probe strip Salt Lake City of the 2034 Olympics? The IOC president says it's unlikely

Sep. 29, 2024 06:15 AM EDT

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — In his first visit back to Utah since awarding Salt Lake City the 2034 Winter Games, the International Olympic Committee president sought to ease worries that the city could lose its second Olympics if organizers don't fulfill an agreement to play peacemaker between...

IOC candidate Samaranch urges European lawmakers to invest in sport as a public health policy

Sep. 24, 2024 08:39 AM EDT

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — IOC presidential candidate Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr. has urged European lawmakers to regard investing in sport as a public health policy in his first keynote speech of a six-month Olympic leadership campaign. “Let’s make this simple: Sport saves lives...

Paris Olympics anti-doping program found almost 50 cases. More likely with re-tests over 10 years

Sep. 19, 2024 07:39 AM EDT

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The anti-doping program for the Paris Olympics caught five athletes after earlier finding 40 rule violations among competitors who had been expected to take part in the Games, the agency that ran the operation said Thursday. Summing up its Olympic...

Edwin Moses documentary '13 Steps' shows how clearing the hurdles was the easy part for a track icon

Sep. 18, 2024 10:18 AM EDT

Not long after Edwin Moses figured out how to attack the solution to track's ultimate math problem, he transformed himself into the best hurdler in history. That, in turn, gave the engineer-turned-Olympic champion the platform to go after more difficult issues that, even today, more...

California-born Brian Goorjian leaves as head coach of Australian men's basketball team

Sep. 17, 2024 21:14 PM EDT

SYDNEY (AP) — California-born Brian Goorjian is leaving as head coach of the Australian men's basketball team after four Olympics and two stints in charge of the Boomers. Basketball Australia said in a statement Wednesday that Goorjian would continue his coaching career with the...

American gymnast Jordan Chiles takes bid to have Olympic bronze restored to the Swiss Supreme Court

Sep. 16, 2024 18:54 PM EDT

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — American gymnast Jordan Chiles is asking Switzerland's Supreme Court to overturn a ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport that stripped Chiles of a bronze medal in floor exercise at the 2024 Olympics. Chiles, with the support of the United States...