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FILE - Erriyon Knighton, of the United States, reacts following his men's 200-meter semifinal at the 2024 Summer Olympics, on Aug. 7, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File)

U.S. Olympic sprinter Knighton banned for positive test for anabolic steroid

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

FILE -The headquarters of FIFA is photographed after a meeting of the FIFA Executive Committee in Zurich, Switzerland, Sept. 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

Top EU court rules that soccer governing body FIFA’s decisions can be challenged outside Switzerland

By Lorne Cook and Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

The former president of Spain's soccer federation Luis Rubiales sits in a courtroom on the outskirts of Madrid, Monday Feb. 3, 2025 where he goes on trial for his unsolicited kiss on forward Jenni Hermoso. (Chema Moya, Pool photo via AP, File)

Sport’s highest court dismisses Rubiales’ appeal against 3-year ban from soccer

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FILE - Romanian fans wave a banner in the colors of Serbia and Romania national flags during the UEFA Nations League soccer match between Romania and Kosovo was suspended at the National Arena stadium in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, Nov. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Alexandru Dobre, File)

Romania loses case about chaotic Kosovo game and must host World Cup qualifier in empty stadium

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Jordan Chiles, of the United States, holds up her medals after the women's artistic gymnastics individual apparatus finals Bercy Arena at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Aug. 5, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File) **FILE**

Chiles takes bid to have Olympic bronze medal restored to Swiss Supreme Court

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Hamburger SV soccer player Mario Vuskovic reacts after taking his seat for the third hearing before the Sports Court of the German Football Association, in Frankfurt, Germany, March 17, 2023. Croatia Under-21 soccer player Doping Vuskovic had his ban for doping doubled to four years on Tuesday in a ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. (Arne Dedert/dpa via AP, File)

Croatian soccer player Mario Vuskovic gets ban for doping extended to 4 years by sports court

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Jordan Chiles, of the United States, and Simone Biles, of the United States, celebrate after the women's artistic gymnastics individual floor finals in Bercy Arena at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in Paris, France. Biles won the silver medal and Chiles the bronze medal. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Jordan Chiles says panel’s call for her to return Olympic bronze is ‘unjust’ and ‘significant blow’

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Jordan Chiles, of the United States, holds up her medals after the women's artistic gymnastics individual apparatus finals Bercy Arena at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

American gymnast Jordan Chiles lost her bronze medal on floor exercise. What happened?

By Will Graves - Associated Press

Canada's head coach Bev Priestman gestures during the Women's World Cup Group B soccer match between Australia and Canada in Melbourne, Australia, Monday, July 31, 2023. FIFA deducted six points from Canada in the Paris Olympics women’s soccer tournament and banned three coaches, including Priestman, for one year each on Saturday, July 27, 2204, in a drone spying scandal. (AP Photo/Hamish Blair, File)

Drone-spying scandal: Canada challenges 6-points deduction by FIFA at Paris Olympics court

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

FILE - University of Pennsylvania athlete Lia Thomas prepares for the 500 meter freestyle event at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships, March 17, 2022, at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas failed in her challenge against rules that stop her competing in elite women’s races because judges ruled she did not have standing to bring the case. The Court of Arbitration for Sport said Wednesday, June 12, 2024, its panel of three judges dismissed Thomas’ request for arbitration with the World Aquatics governing body. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

Transgender Lia Thomas fails in challenge to rules that bar her from elite women’s races

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

A player of RS Berkane, wearing a team jersey showing a red map with the green star of Morocco on the disputed Western Sahara territory, walks on the pitch during the CAF Super Cup 2022 soccer match, in Rabat, Morocco, on Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022. A soccer politics dispute between Algeria and Morocco over a map of disputed Western Sahara territory on a team jersey will go to a full appeal hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy, File)

Soccer jersey dispute between Algeria and Morocco clubs over Western Sahara goes to sports court

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

Gold medalist Norah Jeruto, of Kazakhstan, poses during a medal ceremony for the women's 3000-meter steeplechase at the World Athletics Championships on July 21, 2022, in Eugene, Ore. Former world champion steeplechase runner Norah Jeruto faces a doping case hearing in June five weeks before the Paris Olympics open. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Former world champion runner Jeruto faces doping case hearing in June ahead of Paris Olympics

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Romania's Simona Halep celebrates after beating Poland's Magdalena Frech in their women's third round singles match on day six of the Wimbledon tennis championships in London, Saturday, July 2, 2022. Two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep has been cleared for an immediate return to tennis after sports’ highest court cut her ban for doping on appeal. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, File)

Why was Simona Halep’s doping suspension reduced? And when can she return to playing tennis?

By Howard Fendrich - Associated Press

Juventus' Paul Pogba keeps his eyes on the ball during an Italian Cup soccer match between Inter Milan and Juventus, at the San Siro Stadium, in Milan, Italy, April 26, 2023. Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba has been banned for four years by Italy’s anti-doping court after the World Cup winner tested positive for testosterone. Pogba’s positive test was announced in September following an exam the previous month. (Spada/LaPresse via AP, File)

Pogba has tough fight against 4-year ban judging by doping cases in soccer and for other stars

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

FILE - Mexican fans attend the World Cup group C soccer match between Mexico and Poland, at the Stadium 974 in Doha, Qatar, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022. The decade-long dispute between the Mexico soccer federation and FIFA over multiple punishments for fans chanting anti-gay slurs went to sport’s highest court on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. The latest appeal by Mexico at the Court of Arbitration for Sport challenges financial penalties totaling $114,000 imposed by FIFA for incidents at two games at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)

Mexico, FIFA go back to sports court in decadelong dispute over curbing soccer fans’ gay slurs

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

Kamila Valieva, of the Russian Olympic Committee, reacts in the women's team free skate program during the figure skating competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Monday, Feb. 7, 2022, in Beijing. Russian figure skater Valieva has been disqualified from the 2022 Beijing Olympics. The verdict from the Court of Arbitration for Sport comes almost two years after Valieva's doping case caused turmoil at the Beijing Games. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Russian skater’s strawberry dessert excuse was rejected by judges in Olympic doping case

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

Kamila Valieva, of the Russian Olympic Committee, reacts in the women's team free skate program during the figure skating competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Monday, Feb. 7, 2022, in Beijing. Russian figure skater Valieva has been disqualified from the 2022 Beijing Olympics. The verdict from the Court of Arbitration for Sport comes almost two years after Valieva's doping case caused turmoil at the Beijing Games. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Figure skater Valieva’s doping test disqualification clears way for U.S. to get gold

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva walks during an awarding ceremony for the Russian Olympic Committee's medalists of the XXIV Olympic Winter Games in Beijing and members of the Russian Paralympic team in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, April 26, 2022. A verdict in the Beijing Olympics doping case of Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva should be given by the end of January. The Court of Arbitration for Sport has set the deadline on Friday, Nov. 10, 2023, after a fifth day of appeal proceedings. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Verdict in Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva’s doping case to be given by end of January

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FILE - Simona Halep, of Romania, returns a shot to Daria Snigur, of Ukraine, during the first round of the U.S. Open tennis championships Aug. 29, 2022, in New York. Two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep has asked the Court of Arbitration for Sport to overturn the four-year ban she received for doping violations. The court said Tuesday, Oct. 24, 20234 it has registered Halep's appeal of the International Tennis Integrity Agency's decision in September. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Former No. 1 tennis player Simona Halep files appeal against doping ban

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Russian Kamila Valieva, center, her coach Eteri Tutberidze, left, and choreographer Daniil Gleikhengauz wait for result of her competing in the women's free skate program during the figure skating competition at the 2022 Russian Figure Skating Grand Prix, the Golden Skate of Moscow, at Megasport Arena in Moscow, Russia, on Oct. 23, 2022. The doping case of teenage Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva that shocked the 2022 Beijing Olympics returns to the highest court in sports on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva’s Olympic doping case will resume for two more days in November

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press