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The IOC has again warned weightlifting’s troubled governing body the sport faces being dropped from the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir become the most decorated figure skaters in Olympic history. Mikaela Shiffrin is relaxed about not to race in the downhill.

Japanese short-track speedskater Kei Saito tested positive for acetalozamide, a diuretic that is also a masking agent which can disguise other banned substances

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian track and field athletes haven't been giving up their medals in Olympic doping cases, and local officials have vowed to kick them off the national team until they do. The Russian track federation said Thursday only one medal has been returned out of 23 which must be handed back because of failed retests of samples from the 2008 and 2012 Games...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Switzerland's supreme court says it has dismissed Russia's appeal to compete at the Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro. The Swiss Federal Tribunal says its judge dismissed the Russian Paralympic Committee's request for an interim ruling overturning a ban by the International Paralympic Committee because of state-sponsored doping...

LONDON (AP) — Russia has lost its appeal of the ban against its track and field athletes competing in the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. The Court of Arbitration for Sport today rejected the appeal by 68 Russian track and field athletes seeking to overturn the ban imposed by the athletics' governing body following allegations of state-sponsored doping and cover-ups...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — International Tennis Federation president David Haggerty says a disciplinary hearing has been scheduled in Maria Sharapova's doping case, with a ruling possible before Wimbledon. Haggerty tells reporters the independent Tennis Integrity Unit typically takes "two to three months" to process a case. Tha...