Taiwan's Wu confirms he'll run for IOC presidency
C.K. Wu confirmed Thursday he is running for president of the International Olympic Committee, becoming the fourth candidate and the second from Asia ...
Russian oligarchs foot most of 2014 Sochi Olympics
The mountains of Sochi are now home to Potanin's slope, Gazprom's gondola lift and Sberbank's ski jump. The nicknames used by locals and an army of ...
'Sonic' video games coming to Nintendo
Sonic the Hedgehog is rolling with Nintendo. Sega says it will exclusively release the next three games starring the popular blue critter on Nintendo ...
NHL confident players will go to Sochi Olympics
NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly says the league is "proceeding under the assumption" its players will take part in the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
USOC: 10 cities interested in hosting 2024 Games
The U.S. Olympic Committee is talking to 10 cities about a possible bid for the 2024 Summer Games, including a joint proposal from San Diego and ...
Marathon deaths prompt review of security policy
Left unattended, no accessory looks as menacing these days as a backpack. At the airport. On the subway. At a sports event. And, as a result of the ...
Russia: Sochi security tight after Boston bombs
The naming of two Chechen brothers as the suspects in the deadly Boston Marathon bombing is reviving fears about security at the 2014 Winter Games in ...
S&P warns Russia on high costs for 2018 World Cup
Many of the Russian cities hosting the 2018 World Cup will have trouble finding the money to build soccer stadiums and improve transit links and other ...
Boston bombs raise worries for Olympics, World Cup
From London to Sochi to Rio de Janeiro, the deadly bomb attacks on the Boston Marathon raised new concerns Tuesday over safety at major sports events ...
Boston Marathon bombs put world's cities on alert
With two high-profile events in the days ahead — Margaret Thatcher's funeral and the London Marathon — British officials are looking anew at security ...
Russia ponders sports security lessons from Boston
Russian officials gave mixed signals Tuesday over whether they needed to increase security at key sporting events like the World Athletics ...
Russia's Sochi busy storing snow for 2014 Olympics
In April, at the end of another seemingly endless winter, most Russians are eager to get rid of the piles of snow that have clogged their cities and ...
Snowboarder Chelone Miller dies at age 29
Snowboarder Chelone Miller, the younger brother of Olympic gold medalist Bode Miller, died Sunday in the area of Mammoth Lakes, Calif. He was 29.
2 top Olympic sports lose major sponsors
Two major Olympic sports — track and field and speedskating — have lost key sponsors in the midst of a global economic slump. The South Korean ...
Investor in Sochi Games seeks help on rising costs
A key investor in Russia's 2014 Winter Olympics is lobbying the government to offer tax rebates for the companies operating in Sochi to help offset ...
An Olympic life and 7 vital minutes at Sochi Games
For Florent Amodio, it may be now or never. The French figure skater was just 19 at his first Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, in 2010, old enough to ...
Slovak, Polish PMs support joint 2022 Olympic bid
The prime ministers of Slovakia and Poland say they support a possible joint bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico ...
Film academy sets Oscar dates for 2014, 2015
Film fans can already mark their calendars for the Academy Awards in 2014 and 2015. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Monday ...
APNewsBreak: IOC to retest 2006 Turin samples
With the eight-year deadline approaching, the IOC will retest doping samples from the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin in a bid to catch any drug cheats ...
APNewsBreak: IOC to retest Turin Olympic samples
The IOC has decided to retest doping samples from the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin in an effort to catch any drug cheats who escaped detection at the ...
Lindsey Vonn and Tiger Woods say they're dating
Sports has a new power couple: Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn confirmed they're dating. Two months after rumors began circulating in Europe, Woods and ...
4 years later, Kim remains Olympic gold standard
Kim Yu-na was in a class all her own ahead of the Vancouver Olympics, so far superior there was no way anyone was going to steal that gold medal from ...
Kim wins women's title at 1st worlds in 2 years
The Queen has her title back. And another Olympic gold medal might not be far behind. Back at the World Figure Skating Championships after a two-year ...
Chan wins 3rd title but Ten steals show at worlds
When Denis Ten first started skating, the only rinks in Kazakhstan were outdoors. His mother would bundle him up before sending him out, often putting ...
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