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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 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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    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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    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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    The Torch
    Soo An Yoo, a coach with Dominion Speedskating from South Korea, helps David Chun, 9, learn how to do tight turns as Kyubin Oh looks on.
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    A Short Track To The Olympics For Washington, D.C.-Area Speedskaters

    Jan 27, 2018
    The capital region has produced two of the U.S. Olympic team's eight speedskaters. Nearly a third of the short track speedskaters who qualified for Olympic trials this year came from D.C.-area clubs.
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    The Torch
    The entire USA Gymnastics board will resign, the group says. Rachael Denhollander (center) listens as Larry Nassar, a former team USA Gymnastics doctor, was sentenced to up to 175 years in prison for sexual abuse over decades of his involvement with the
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    USOC Tells USA Gymnastics' Board To Resign Within 6 Days

    Jan 26, 2018
    USA Gymnastics said it "completely embraces the requirements" set by the U.S. Olympic Committee. Sexual abuser and former team doctor Larry Nassar was sentenced to up to 175 years in prison this week.
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    Pop singer Hyon Song-wol, head of the North Korea's Samjiyon Orchestra and leader of a popular all-female North Korean band, leaves Seoul's Korea National Theater on Monday. She led Pyongyang's delegation to inspect Olympic venues before the Games begin
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    In South Korea, A Backlash Against Olympics Cooperation With The North

    Jan 22, 2018
    "We oppose, we oppose, we oppose," shouted protesters as North Korea's advance team arrived. Thousands signed petitions against a joint women's hockey team. The president's approval rating has fallen.
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    The Two-Way
    Larry Nassar listens to victim impact statements prior to being sentenced after being accused of molesting more than 140 women and girls while he was a physician for Team USA and Michigan State University. Nassar has pleaded guilty in Ingham County, Mich
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    Gymnastics Doctor's Victims Speak, As Simone Biles Says She Was Also Abused

    Jan 16, 2018
    Women began speaking in court on Tuesday about the devastating impact of abuse at the hands of sports doctor and admitted sexual assaulter Larry Nassar. The list of accusers is growing longer.
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    Figure skater Mirai Nagasu at the World Arena Ice Hall in Colorado Springs.
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    Training For The Olympics Is Hard Enough. Try Doing That While Earning A Degree

    Jan 04, 2018
    Olympic athletes struggle to balance the demands of their sports with college.
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    Bobby Butler during hockey training camp when he played for the Florida Panthers in 2014.
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    WATCH: Hockey Player Tells Dad He Made The Olympic Team

    Jan 02, 2018
    The U.S. unveiled its roster for the Olympic hockey team on Monday. And the joyful, emotional moment when forward Bobby Butler told his father the big news was caught on video.

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