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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles has reached an agreement with international Olympic leaders that will open the way for the city to host the 2028 Summer Games. City Council President Herb Wesson's office on Monday confirmed the deal...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — This year's U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame class is headlined by former Boston University coach Jack Parker and longtime NHL coach Ron Wilson. USA Hockey announced the inductees Monday. Retired NHL official Kevin Collins, three-time Olympic women's team coach Ben Smith and 17-year NHL veteran Scott Young were also picked...

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The bid by the city of Los Angeles to host the 2024 Summer Olympics has gotten stronger. Budapest's assembly has approved a motion to withdraw the city's bid for the Games. The decision leaves Los Angeles and Paris as the only remaining candidates. The...

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...

The Latest on the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro Two days before the opening ceremony of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, the sporting action has begun in the spiritual home of soccer with Brazil's national sport being played. A women's soccer game between Sweden and South Africa started in front of a sparse crowd at the Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro...

Rapinoe, coming off knee surgery, Lloyd make Olympic roster COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Megan Rapinoe, who is coming off December knee surgery, has been named to the national team roster for the Rio Games along with New Jersey's Carli Lloyd, who has scored in the gold-medal winning final for the United States in the last two Olympics...