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Azusa Iwashimizu (right) and other members of Japan women's national football team run as torchbearers in the first leg of the torch relay for Tokyo Olympics on Thursday in Fukushima prefecture, Japan.
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Torch Relay Kicks Off For Troubled Tokyo Olympic Games

Mar 25, 2021
The torch relay shows the organizers' determination to proceed with the Games, despite public skepticism. It is set to crisscross the country and arrive at the opening ceremony in Tokyo on July 23.
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Coronavirus Updates
A couple takes pictures with the Olympic rings monument near the National Stadium for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on Feb. 4. Organizers have decided that overseas spectators won't be allowed to attend the Games this summer.
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Overseas Spectators Will Be Banned From Tokyo Olympics Due To COVID-19 Risks

Mar 20, 2021
Tokyo organizers on Saturday announced that foreign spectators will be barred from attending this year's Olympic and Paralympic Games due to concerns over COVID-19.
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Joe Delagrave (c) is co-captain of the USA Wheelchair Rugby team. The squad was practicing at a recent training camp in Birmingham, Ala. at the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Training site.
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The Tokyo Olympics Are On — For Now — As Athletes Train Through The Uncertainty

Mar 02, 2021
The Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics were delayed a year by the coronavirus pandemic. Now, there's as much uncertainty as there was a year ago. The athletes are doing their best to focus on their training.
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Japan's Olympic organizing committee president, Yoshiro Mori, speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 4.
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Yoshiro Mori Reportedly Plans To Quit As Japan's Olympic Chief Over Sexist Remarks

Feb 11, 2021
The Tokyo Olympic committee head plans to resign Friday amid a firestorm of criticism about his comments disparaging women's participation in organizing the Tokyo Games, say Japanese outlets.
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Yoshiro Mori, the president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee, listens to a question from a journalist during a news conference in Tokyo last Thursday.
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Tokyo Olympic Organizers Face Pressure From Volunteers, Diplomats Over Sexist Remarks

Feb 09, 2021
Despite the efforts of Japanese and Olympic officials to quash the debate, pressure on the Games' organizing chief is mounting over his recent comments that women talk too much in board meetings.
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The National Speed Skating Oval, also known as the Ice Ribbon, is the venue for speed skating events at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.
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Opinion: Olympic Flame Of Suffering

Jan 30, 2021
With the Winter Olympics set for next year, NPR's Scott Simon talks about the push by some human rights groups to move the games out of Beijing.
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Coronavirus Forces Olympic Hopefuls To Find Alternative Training

Aug 18, 2020

(Editor's note: This discussion originally aired May 2020)

The 2021 Summer Olympic Games is steadily approaching, and athletes and coaches across Nevada are scrambling.  

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The Olympic rings displayed outside the National Stadium, a venue for the 2020 Olympic Games, in Tokyo on April 7. The games have been delayed until 2021 because of the coronavirus.
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Japan, IOC Jostle Over Who Will Pay Billions To Delay 2020 Olympics Over Coronavirus

Apr 21, 2020
The cost of moving the summer games to 2021 is expected to be massive. The International Olympic Committee said on Tuesday Japan would pay. Japanese officials said they didn't agree to foot the bill.
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On Sunday, the International Olympic Committee said that it was starting to look into scenarios for "modifying" the current plans for the games, which are scheduled to start on July 24 in Tokyo.
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Olympics Official Says He Would 'Mortgage The Farm' That Games Will Be Postponed

Mar 23, 2020
International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound says the details have not been finalized, amid increasing calls for the 2020 Summer Games to be postponed.
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Students at Pole Pressure in Washington, D.C. combine strength, flexibility and creativity to learn routines in class.
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Pole Dancing Made It To The Super Bowl. Now It Wants Another Stage: The Olympics

Mar 12, 2020
The International Pole Sports Federation is working to get pole dancing permanently recognized as a sport. Advocates say it combines strength, flexibility, creativity and a whole lot of training.
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Nevada Senator Co-Sponsors Legislation To Prevent Sexual Abuse Of Olympic Athletes

Aug 09, 2019

U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto cosponsored legislation to prevent sexual abuse of Olympic athletes.

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María Guadalupe González, seen here winning the Women's 20 km race at the IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships last May, has been banned from the sport for four years.
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Mexico's Star Race Walker Lupita González Hit With 4-Year Ban For Doping

May 10, 2019
González, 30, won a silver medal at the Rio Summer Olympics. With the threat of suspension hanging over her, she had been training in hopes that she could compete in next year's Tokyo Games.
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Cyclist Kelly Catlin (left) with her U.S. teammates after they won team pursuit gold medals at the world championships in the Netherlands last year.
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Olympic Cycling Medalist Kelly Catlin Dead At 23

Mar 11, 2019
She was found in her dorm at Stanford University last week. Her family says it was suicide. "She saw herself as a warrior, and it was do or die," her sister, Christine Catlin, tells NPR.
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USA Gymnastics says filing for bankruptcy gives it "the opportunity to reorganize."
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USA Gymnastics Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

Dec 05, 2018
USAG says the filing will help resolve claims against it by athletes who allege abuse by former team doctor Larry Nassar. But bankruptcy may disrupt the pending legal actions against the organization.
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Olympic Committee Officials Tour Salt Lake City, Denver For 2030 Bid

Nov 14, 2018

U.S. Olympic Committee officials are touring Salt Lake City this week as they decide whether to choose Utah’s capital or Denver as the U.S. bid city for the 2030 Winter Olympics. The visit comes after the USOC toured Denver yesterday.

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Reno-Tahoe Region Drops Effort To Host 2030 Winter Olympics

Nov 13, 2018

 

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — The Reno-Tahoe area will not be making a play to host the Winter Olympics.

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Sarah Hirshland, seen here during a U.S. Golf Association event, has been named as the new CEO of the U.S. Olympic Committee.
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U.S. Olympic Committee Hires Sarah Hirshland As Its New CEO

Jul 12, 2018
The hire comes nearly five months after the previous CEO, Scott Blackmun, resigned amid calls for him to quit over former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar's sexual assault of scores of minors.
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Olympic swimmer Ariana Kukors Smith talks to reporters during a May news conference in Seattle. Kukors Smith sued USA Swimming, alleging the sport's national governing body knew her former coach sexually abused her as a minor and covered it up.
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As USA Swimming Grapples With Sexual Abuse, Athletes Cite Lack Of Female Coaches

Jul 04, 2018
A former Olympic athlete sued her former coach for alleged abuse and USA Swimming because she says it failed to protect her.
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The Two-Way
The Kasumigaseki Country Club has allowed women to have full memberships for the first time in decades. Here, a golfer is seen on the club's course, which will host men's and women's golf at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics.
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Women Get First Full Memberships At Tokyo 2020 Golf Course

May 11, 2018
The International Olympic Committee reiterated last year that if the Kasumigaseki Country Club wanted to host the Olympics, it would have to change.
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The Salt
Magdalena Neuner of Germany enjoys a glass of Erdinger nonalcoholic beer after a medal ceremony at the biathlon world championships in Ruhpolding, Germany, in 2012. Today's Olympians have been swept up in a new trend largely emerging from Bavaria: nonalc
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Olympians Are Using Nonalcoholic Beer As Recovery Drinks. Here's The Science

Feb 24, 2018
Today's Olympians have been swept up in a new trend largely emerging from Bavaria: nonalcoholic athletic recovery beers. Do they really work? We look at the evidence.
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The Torch
Nao Kodaira of Japan hugs Sang-Hwa Lee of Korea after Kodaira beat Lee in the 500m speed skating finals. The two have finished within fractions of a second of each other for years and are constantly compared to one another.
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Rivals Japan And South Korea Face Off At Olympics Amid Chilly Ties

Feb 19, 2018
The fierce rivalry between Korea and Japan is in full view at the Olympics. Showdowns on the ice reflect a relationship between the countries that falls "somewhere between cold and frosty."
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The Torch
Ryom Tae Ok and Kim Ju Sik of North Korea react after their scores are posted following their performance in the pair figure skating short program on Wednesday.
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North Korean Figure Skaters Make Olympic Debut, To Cheers

Feb 14, 2018
Ryom Tae Ok and Kim Ju Sik were the only athletes from the isolated autocratic nation who formally qualified for the Olympics. On Wednesday, they finished among the top 12 pairs in the short program.
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Nevada's Olympic Legacy

Feb 09, 2018

On Friday, the 23rd Winter Olympic Games officially began with an opening ceremony in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

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Vice President Pence addresses a dinner earlier this year in White Sulphur Springs, W.V. Pence is heading to South Korea for diplomatic efforts and Olympic events.
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Vice President Pence To Keep Pressure On North Korea, Despite South Korean Warming

Feb 05, 2018
As Pence heads to South Korea to represent the U.S. at the Winter Olympics, he plans to counter North Korea's media messaging and push allies to maintain pressure on the nation.
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The Torch
(Left) United States' Becca Hamilton releases the stone during a match against Switzerland in the Women's World Curling Championship in Beijing on March 23, 2017. (Right) Becca's brother, Matt Hamilton, delivers a stone during the bronze medal game betwe
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It's In Their Blood: Siblings Eye 1st Mixed Curling Gold At Winter Olympics

Jan 31, 2018
Matt and Becca Hamilton will compete in PyeongChang as mixed doubles curling makes its debut at the Olympics. The brother and sister from Wisconsin say their family bond helps drive their success.
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