Coe was, by a distance, the most qualified candidate, as a two-time Olympic 1500m champion who later presided over London’s spectacular 2012 Olympics. He has also led athletics, the pre-eminent ...

Athletes need immigration documents as well. “From purely an Olympics perspective we got very lucky. That’s not the most important thing,” Wasserman told the Associated Press. “What’s ...

Now, her ascension to the top post in the Olympics has come in the same country where Coventry won her first Olympic medal in Athens in 2004, in a full circle moment. Coventry secured 49 out of a ...

At 41, she will be the second-youngest IOC president after Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympics. Coubertin began his 29-year term at age 33 in 1896, the year of the first modern ...

Boxing was included Thursday in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics program after a unanimous vote by the International Olympic Committee, ending years of doubt over the sport's Olympic future.

Ms. Coventry has urgent issues to deal with right at the start. The next Summer Olympics will take place in Los Angeles in 2028, at a time when American leadership around the world is under scrutiny.

“I think Sebastian Coe did ruffle a few feathers last year when he gave cash prizes to the gold medal winners in the track and field events at the Olympics,” Thomas said. Sebastian Coe was ...

The sport was not part of the programme for the next Olympics when the schedule was first announced in 2022. But the IOC granted provisional recognition for World Boxing as the sport's global body ...

Her first Olympics will be the Milan-Cortina Winter Games in February 2026. "It's a really powerful signal. It's a signal that we're truly global and that we have evolved into an organisation that ...

LONDON — Algerian boxer Imane Khelif says that President Donald Trump’s stance on gender in sports “does not intimidate” her and plans to defend her gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympics.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The IOC is set to hold its most open presidential contest in modern times, AP explains Candidate to the ...