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Olympics|Global Sports Leaders Anticipate a Decision on Russia’s Participation in Olympics – New York Times

Sunday, July 24, 2016

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Olympics|Global Sports Leaders Anticipate a Decision on Russia’s Participation in Olympics – New York Times

Sunday, July 24, 2016

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Olympics|Global Sports Leaders Anticipate a Decision on Russia’s Participation in Olympics – New York Times

Sunday, July 24, 2016

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BC-AP Sports Preview Digest (Jul 23, 2016) – FOXSports.com

Sunday, July 24, 2016

Some of the sports stories The Associated Press is covering Saturday. A full Sports Digest will be sent by about 3 p.m. All times EDT: – LONDON – With the image of the Olympics at stake, the IOC meets Sunday to consider whether to ban Russia entirely from the Rio Games because of systematic, state-sponsored cheating. – SAO PAULO – Many foreigners are taking advantage of Brazil’s shortage of athletes…

Olympics|Global Sports Leaders Anticipate a Decision on Russia’s Participation in Olympics – New York Times

Saturday, July 23, 2016

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Sports Reporter Cries Foul When Own Son’s Youth League Is Bilked – New York Times

Saturday, July 23, 2016

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Sports Authority Creditors Seek to Convert Bankruptcy Case to Chapter 7 – Wall Street Journal

Saturday, July 23, 2016

Sports Authority Holdings Inc.’s vendors and landlords are looking to pull the plug on the retailer’s bankruptcy case. The retailer’s unsecured creditors filed court papers Friday calling for the lights to be shut off permanently, saying Sports Authority faces mounting administrative claims on which it will never be able to get a grip. …

Rio 2016 Olympics: Vladimir Putin says ‘no place for doping in sport’ – BBC News

Saturday, July 23, 2016

Vladimir Putin says officials named in the McLaren report will be suspended, pending a thorough investigation Russian President Vladimir Putin said “there can be no place for doping in sport” after his country’s athletes were told their ban from this summer’s Olympics remained in place. Russian track and field athletes are banned from Rio 2016 after claims of a state-sponsored doping programme. Putin said: “Sport must be clean and the…

Sports Reporter Cries Foul When Own Son’s Youth League Is Bilked – New York Times

Saturday, July 23, 2016

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IOC president has sports, personal links to Russia – Youngstown Vindicator

Saturday, July 23, 2016

Associated Press MOSCOW The International Olympic Committee is weighing up whether to ban Russia from next month’s games in Rio de Janeiro after revelations of a massive doping cover-up, but relations between the two were once much sunnier. When IOC president Thomas Bach was elected in 2013, he was called almost immediately by Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose country was then gearing up to host the Winter Olympics in Sochi….

Rio 2016 Olympics: Vladimir Putin says ‘no place for doping in sport’ – BBC News

Saturday, July 23, 2016

Vladimir Putin says officials named in the McLaren report will be suspended, pending a thorough investigation Russian President Vladimir Putin said “there can be no place for doping in sport” after his country’s athletes were told their ban from this summer’s Olympics remained in place. Russian track and field athletes are banned from Rio 2016 after claims of a state-sponsored doping programme. Putin said: “Sport must be clean and the…

Nothing but the best in training, technology and sports medicine at the Olympic Training Center – The Denver Post

Saturday, July 23, 2016

COLORADO SPRINGS — Outside it was a beautiful spring day with Pikes Peak looming majestically to the west, but as Desiree Linden pounded out miles on a treadmill in a hermetically sealed room at the Olympic Training Center, it was a Sunday morning in August in Rio de Janeiro. And she wasn’t at 6,100 feet, she was at sea level imagining the Olympic marathon. Linden was sweating hard in the…

Sports Reporter Cries Foul When Own Son’s Youth League Is Bilked – New York Times

Saturday, July 23, 2016

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Rio 2016 Olympics: Vladimir Putin says ‘no place for doping in sport’ – BBC News

Saturday, July 23, 2016

Vladimir Putin says officials named in the McLaren report will be suspended, pending a thorough investigation Russian President Vladimir Putin said “there can be no place for doping in sport” after his country’s athletes were told their ban from this summer’s Olympics remained in place. Russian track and field athletes are banned from Rio 2016 after claims of a state-sponsored doping programme. Putin said: “Sport must be clean and the…

Stephen Dank out of hospital after shooting, former Essendon sports scientist suffers grazed forehead – ABC Online

Saturday, July 23, 2016

Updated July 23, 2016 14:26:03 Photo: Stephen Dank climbs into an ambulance after the shooting. (ABC News) Stephen Dank, the sports scientist at the centre of the Essendon doping scandal, has told of being shot at through the window of his house while he slept in the early hours of the morning. ABC News Radio contacted Dank, who said he was advised by police not to do…

Sport participation rises in Scotland – BBC News

Saturday, July 23, 2016

Image copyright DAVID MARIUZ Image caption There has been a big increase in the number of people playing cricket in Scotland in recent years The number of people participating in sport in Scotland has increased in recent years, according to new figures. The SportScotland statistics showed the overall number of people registered to sports clubs had risen from 706,764 to 768,212 since 2013/14. The rise applied to almost all sports…

The Guardian view on Sports Direct: a warning from the future – The Guardian

Saturday, July 23, 2016

Holding power to account is a core responsibility of being an MP. It is all the more important when so often ordinary men and women in an insecure world have few other ways of protecting their interests, above all at work. So to see Mike Ashley, founder and chief executive of Sports Direct, blustering out his astonishment at the experiences of his workers must have been some slight compensation for…

Rio 2016 Olympics: Vladimir Putin says ‘no place for doping in sport’ – BBC News

Saturday, July 23, 2016

Vladimir Putin says officials named in the McLaren report will be suspended, pending a thorough investigation Russian President Vladimir Putin said “there can be no place for doping in sport” after his country’s athletes were told their ban from this summer’s Olympics remained in place. Russian track and field athletes are banned from Rio 2016 after claims of a state-sponsored doping programme. Putin said: “Sport must be clean and the…