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Rowers practice for the 2015 World Rowing Junior Championships on Rodrigo de Freitas lake in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.(Photo: Silvia Izquierdo, AP) KAZAN, Russia (AP) — Water quality at next year’s Olympic venues is “not a big problem”, according to the head of swimming’s governing body. An Associated Press investigation last week showed a serious health risk to the 1,400 Olympic athletes who will compete at water venues around Rio…

By James Raia Published 3 hours ago BMC team doctor Eric Heiden (center) was on hand to witness Taylor Phinney’s return to cycling at Tour of Utah, along with Phinney’s father, Davis, and mother, Connie Carpenter-Phinney. Photo: Casey B. Gibson | www.cbgphoto.com Eric Heiden is now nearly 30 years removed by his pro cycling career. But the longtime physician for BMC Racing was preparing for another stage of…

These undated photos released by the Inglewood Police Department show missing Special Olympics athlete Abidjan Ouattara, originally from the Ivory Coast. Ouattara vanished near Los Angeles on Monday. (Inglewood Police Department via AP) A second member of the Special Olympics team from the Ivory Coast was reported missing Tuesday, hours after his teammate was found safe. Inglewood police said golfer Abidjan Ouattara, 24, was last seen leaving the Adventurer Hotel,…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal forced Paris St-Germain to pay an extra £3m for forward Angel Di Maria after the 27-year-old posted a picture of himself with the French club’s owner in Qatar. (Daily Mirror)  United are on the verge of completing a £20m deal for Barcelona…

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Lord Coe has defended the IAAF’s drug-testing system and said it was time to “come out fighting” to protect the reputation of the sport. In an interview with the Associated Press, Coe commented on reports alleging the IAAF had failed to act on suspicious blood tests involving hundreds of athletes over a 10-year period. Related: IAAF denies turning blind eye to suspicious blood tests “It is a declaration of war…

The DeKalb County Commission voted 4-3 Tuesday to approve an incentive package for Atlanta United FC to build a $30 million soccer complex along I-285 near Memorial Drive. Atlanta United will construct a 3,500-seat stadium, three practice fields and a two-story team headquarters behind the DeKalb Jail, according to a Memorandum of Understanding. An indoor training facility and additional fields may be built later. Under the deal, DeKalb will spend…

Sport funding is facing a major overhaul in a bid to reverse recent disappointing participation figures. Amid increasing concerns that Britain is failing to live up to the legacy promise of the London 2012 Olympics, a public consultation has been launched to mark the start of a new strategy for sport. And the government has warned that the mounting cost of success for Britain’s Olympic and…

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By LINDA S. ZHANG, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — An autistic teenage Special Olympics athlete who vanished from Los Angeles International Airport was found sleeping on a lawn five miles away Monday afternoon, hours after another missing competitor turned up safe 350 miles away in Northern California. Sihon Ange Ismael Kone, 15, of the Ivory Coast was found lying in the grass in front of an Inglewood house with…

A Special Olympics athlete who was reported missing at Los Angeles International Airport was found Monday afternoon in Inglewood after he wandered away from his Ivory Coast teammates. Shion Isimel, a table tennis competitor who has a mild form of autism, was with the country’s delegation at about…

Some teams were caught off-guard when Pocono became a fuel-mileage race.(Photo: Matthew O’Haren, USA TODAY Sports) LONG POND, Pa. – With NASCAR in the midst of a four-week stretch of tracks known for breeding a variety of pit strategies, it probably shouldn’t have been a surprise when drivers and teams got a fuel-mileage race Sunday at Pocono Raceway. But it seemed to catch many of them off guard. NASCAR, which…

A teenage Special Olympics athlete vanished from Los Angeles International Airport early Monday, just hours after another missing competitor turned up safe 350 miles away in Northern California. Shion Isimel, 15, of the Ivory Coast, was last seen at 6:30 a.m. Monday at a Delta Air Lines ticket counter, airport police spokesman Rob Pedregon said. A security camera photo showed the French-speaking teen, who competed in table tennis, wearing a…

NASCAR announced today that the annual NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Awards — and all of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Champion’s Week –€“ will return to Las Vegas in 2015 as part of a renewed partnership with the destination. The agreement ensures that Las Vegas will continue hosting the week-long celebration, offering fans and industry members a chance to see the sport’s stars and congratulate the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series…

It was no surprise that the 1936 Summer Olympics were going to be complicated. The wrangling had begun months before the games, as the U.S. considered whether to pull out of the games over the suspicion that Jewish athletes were not being allowed to compete for spots on teams for the host nation, Germany. By the time Hitler and the German team opened the games that August, TIME noted that…

Lacking no shortage of peculiar moments or drama, a little bit of everything transpired during Sunday’s NASCAR race at Pocono Raceway. On a track where cautions are usually a rarity, the proceedings saw four yellow flags within the opening 30 laps, which took an hour to complete. Included was a 20-minute delay allowing track workers to repair damage to pit a road wall after Kasey Kahne was involved in…

Buy Photo Buy Photo Buy Photo Buy Photo Angela Ruggiero, left, with her brother Bill Ruggiero, speaks on Jan. 26, 2005, during a news conference in Tulsa, Okla. Angela Ruggiero, the defenceman for the U.S. Women’s hockey team and Bill Ruggiero, who is a goaltender, became the first brother and sister to play in a professional hockey game together when their Tulsa Oilers hosedt the Rio Grande Valley Killer Bees…