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New hope to add 3-on-3 basketball at Rio Olympics

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

FILE - This is a Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014, file photo of a worker leaving after checking ice conditions at the Iceberg Skating Palace, where the figure skating and short track speed skiing will take place, at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. The Olympics begin Feb. 7th. You'd have to be a dope to try to get away with doping at the Sochi Olympics. That's the picture painted by international Olympic and anti-doping officials as they implement the toughest drug-testing program in Winter Games history.Using intelligence to target athletes and events considered most at risk, authorities are focusing their efforts on weeding out drug cheats through rigorous pre-games and pre-competition tests. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Sochi Olympics: Toughest drug-testing program in Winter Games history in place

By Stephen Wilson - Associated Press

FILE - This is a Feb. 19, 2006 file photo of an Italian police officer as he stands outside a house where members of the Austrian Biathlon team were searched on the anti-doping police raid in San Sicario, Italy. You'd have to be a dope to try to get away with doping at the Sochi Olympics. That's the picture painted by international Olympic and anti-doping officials as they implement the toughest drug-testing program in Winter Games history.Using intelligence to target athletes and events considered most at risk, authorities are focusing their efforts on weeding out drug cheats through rigorous pre-games and pre-competition tests. (AP Photo/Tom Curley, FILE)

Tough drug-testing net in place for Sochi Olympics

By STEPHEN WILSON - Associated Press

Russian police officers search a vehicle at an entrance to the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games park, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. The Olympics begin on Feb. 7. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Sochi set to welcome the world amid storm clouds

By STEPHEN WILSON - Associated Press

Security personnel walk with their dogs outside Fisht Olympic Stadium at the 2014 Winter Olympics Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. The Olympics begin Feb. 7th. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Bach backs Russia on security for Sochi Olympics

By STEPHEN WILSON - Associated Press

Ramachandran set to be new IOA president

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International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach, left, speaks with Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff during a meeting at Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014. The city of Rio de Janeiro will host the Olympics in 2016. (AP Photo/Joel Rodrigues)

Rio Olympics operating budget rises by 27 percent

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

A photo of a police leaflet seen in a Sochi hotel on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014, shows Ruzanna Ibragimova and states that she is at large in the city of Sochi. Russian security officials are hunting down three potential female suicide bombers, one of whom is believed to be in Sochi, where the Winter Olympics will begin next month. Police leaflets seen by an Associated Press reporter at a central Sochi hotel on Tuesday contain warnings about three potential suicide bombers. Police said that Ruzanna Ibragimova, depicted in a mug shot wearing a pink hijab, was at large in Sochi. (AP Photo/Natalya Vasilyeva)

Sochi Olympics the ‘holy grail’ for Islamic radical terrorists: think tank

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Gambling regulators to watch for Olympics cheating

By HANNAH DREIER - Associated Press

In this Friday, Jan. 17, 2014 photo made available by Presidential Press Service on Sunday, Jan. 19, 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to a translation during an interview to Russian and foreign media at the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi, which will host Winter Olympic Games on Feb. 7, 2014. President Vladimir Putin once again has offered assurances to gays planning to attend the Sochi Olympics, but his arguments defending Russia’s ban on homosexual “propaganda” to minors show the vast gulf between how he understands the issues and how homosexuality is generally viewed in the West. In an interview with Russian and foreign television stations broadcast Sunday, Putin equated gays with pedophiles and spoke of the need for Russia to “cleanse” itself of homosexuality as part of efforts to increase the birth rate. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

Sochi still scrambling to sell Olympic tickets

By STEPHEN WILSON - Associated Press

Canada's forward Gillian Apps (10) falls as she tries to shoot on USA's goalie Jessie Vetter in the second period of the women's gold medal ice hockey game at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010. Also defending for USA are Caitlin Cahow (8) and Angela Ruggiero (4). (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

U.S. Olympic goalie ordered to remove ‘We the People’ from mask

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin tries on a jacket during a visit the training center for volunteers Winter Olympics at the Black Sea resort of Sochi, southern Russia, Saturday, Jan. 4, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin has rescinded a blanket ban on demonstrations in Sochi in and around the Winter Olympics and Paralympics. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

Russia wins Sochi gold for corruption? IOC official cites $18B in embezzlement

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

**FILE** Olympic athlete Victor Ramos carries the flag representing Individual Olympic Athletes onto the field during the opening ceremony for the Summer Olympics Friday, Sept. 15, 2000, at Olympic Stadium in Sydney. Ramos, a boxer, fled his homeland of East Timor following the 1999 violence. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

‘Shameful and pathetic’: India athletes to compete in Sochi under Olympic flag

By Stephen Wilson - Associated Press

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Israeli flag censored at Swimming World Cup in Qatar

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (second from right, with a red helmet) is briefed about a chemical dam by Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant chief Akira Ono (second from left) as the lawmaker inspects an area along the coast between the No. 1 and No. 2 reactors during his tour of the tsunami-crippled plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Japan Pool)

Japanese leader Shinzo Abe wants Fukushima nuke plant completely scrapped

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this Feb. 15, 2011, file photo, Lance Armstrong pauses during an interview in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Thao Nguyen, File)

Lance Armstrong returns 2000 Olympic bronze medal

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE - In a Sept. 30, 2000 file photo, U.S. cyclist Lance Armstrong waves after receiving the bronze medal in the men's individual time trials at the 2000 Summer Olympics cycling road course in Sydney, Australia. Officials familiar with the decision tell The Associated Press the IOC has stripped Armstrong of his bronze medal from the 2000 Sydney Olympics because of his involvement in doping. Two officials say the IOC sent a letter to Armstrong on Wednesday night, Jan. 16, 2013, asking him to return the medal. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan, File)

Lance Armstrong returns bronze medal from 2000 Olympics

By JIm Vertuno - Associated Press

Thomas Bach, vice president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), attends a report session during the 125th IOC session in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Sept. 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

Thomas Bach, former Olympic gold medalist, is new IOC president

By Stephen Wilson - Associated Press

Spain's delegation attends the IOC session during the Madrid 2020 bid presentation at2wl;d the 125th International Olympic Committee session in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013. Madrid, Istanbul and Tokyo are competing to host the 2020 Summer Olympic Games. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

2020 Olympics host city to be Tokyo or Istanbul; Madrid out

By Stephen Wilson - Associated Press

Members of the Tokyo 2020 delegation celebrate after Tokyo was awarded the 2020 Olympic Games during the 125th IOC session in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

Tokyo to host 2020 Olympics, beating out Istanbul, Madrid

By Stephen Wilson - Associated Press