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OLYMPICS

Lindsey Vonn of the United States celebrates on the podium after her second place finish in the Super G alpine skiing race in the 2025 FIS Ski World Cup at Sun Valley on March 23.

OLYMPICS / Alpine skiing

Vonn and Shiffrin fuel U.S. 2026 Winter Olympics hopes

By Suramya Kaushik

Shiffrin wrapped up her injury-marred season by winning the slalom on Thursday for a record-extending 101st career World Cup victory.

Morinari Watanabe speaks during a news conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Jan. 30.

OLYMPICS

Watanabe stresses significance of his IOC presidency bid

Watanabe, who became the first Japanese to seek the top IOC post, earned only four of the 97 valid votes in the election last week.

Kirsty Coventry speaks during a news conference after being elected as IOC president on Thursday.

OLYMPICS

Kirsty Coventry hopes to speak with Donald Trump about 2028 LA Games

Coventry, who is Zimbabwe's sports minister, as well as Africa's most decorated Olympian, said both the IOC and the United States wanted successful Olympics in 2028.

Newly-elected president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Zimbabwean Kirsty Coventry during her first news conference in Costa Navarino, Greece, on Thursday.

OLYMPICS

Mar 21, 2025

Kirsty Coventry enjoys 'extraordinary moment' as she becomes IOC's first female leader

By Pirate IRWIN

The 41-year-old from Zimbabwe is also the youngest person to hold the most powerful position in sports governance.

World Boxing President Boris van der Vorst speaks to reporters on Thursday in Costa Navarino, Greece.

OLYMPICS / Boxing

Mar 20, 2025

Boxing earns spot in the Los Angeles 2028 Summer Games

The IOC last month granted provisional recognition to World Boxing in a major step toward the sport's inclusion in the LA Games.

Outgoing IOC President Thomas Bach delivers a speech at an IOC session on Wednesday.

OLYMPICS

Mar 20, 2025

IOC names outgoing boss Bach as honorary president for life

Bach, a German lawyer and former Olympic fencing champion, took over in 2013 and immediately introduced wide-ranging reforms.

Outgoing International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach delivers a speech during the 144th IOC Session in Costa Navarino, Greece, ahead of an election to determine his successor.

OLYMPICS

Mar 20, 2025

Strange race to lead Olympic sports gets stranger

By Tariq Panja

Smear campaigns have targeted some of the leading contenders in the final days before the vote, scheduled for Thursday in Greece.

Akinori Nakayama, who has died at the age of 82, won 10 Olympic medals and gave his name to a rings maneuver still performed by the world's top gymnasts.

OLYMPICS / Gymnastics

Mar 18, 2025

Japanese gymnastics great Akinori Nakayama dies aged 82

By Shifa Jahan

Nakayama won 10 Olympic medals and gave his name to a rings maneuver still performed by the world's top gymnasts.

This combination picture shows candidates for the presidency of the IOC (from top left) Sebastian Coe, Kirsty Coventry, Johan Eliasch, Prince Feisal al-Hussein of Jordan, David Lappartient, Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr. and Morinari Watanabe speaking during a press conference following a presentation before fellow IOC members, in Lausanne on Jan. 30.

OLYMPICS

Mar 17, 2025

Heavyweight seven eye finish line in race to succeed Olympics chief

By Pirate IRWIN

Surprises from the electorate of 100-plus IOC members cannot be ruled out in the battle to become the most powerful figure in sport governance.

IOC President Thomas Bach speaks during an interview in Pylos, Greece, on Saturday.

OLYMPICS

Mar 16, 2025

IOC's Bach says Paris Games gender row was product of Russian fake news

By Karolos Grohmann

Bach, who is stepping down in June, said the IOC had needed to fight off many similar campaigns before and after the Paris Games.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Professional cleaner Hirofumi Sakurai takes a moment to appreciate some photographs in a Gotanda apartment whose occupant died alone.

The last cleanup: Life and death in a lonely Japan

By Johan Brooks

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