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A Turkish riot policeman holds a weapon while standing in Taksim square in Istanbul, Saturday, June 15, 2013. Protesters will press on with their sit-in at an Istanbul park, an activist said Saturday, defying government appeals and a warning from Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the two-week standoff that has fanned nationwide demonstrations to end. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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  • After years of thinking about Paralympics, Moroccan Mohamed Lahna strives for 2016 Rio Games

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    SAN MATEO, Calif. - Mohamed Lahna removes the prosthetic he uses for everyday activity, attaches another to his right leg ......

  • A Turkish riot policeman holds a weapon while standing in Taksim square in Istanbul, Saturday, June 15, 2013. Protesters will press on with their sit-in at an Istanbul park, an activist said Saturday, defying government appeals and a warning from Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the two-week standoff that has fanned nationwide demonstrations to end. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

    Istanbul 2020 Olympic bid leaders say 'voice of tolerance' will prevail after protests

    06/15/2013 11:47 AM 0

  • Washington chosen to host major Olympic gathering in 2015; boost to potential 2024 bid

    06/14/2013 5:52 PM 0

    LAUSANNE, Switzerland - The United States will host a major Olympic meeting in 2015, a boost to a potential U.S. ...

  • Lakers star Kobe Bryant urges people to 'be doubly active' on Olympic Day

    06/14/2013 9:12 AM 0

    LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Kobe Bryant has joined forces with the IOC to promote a global get-active campaign.

    The Los Angeles Lakers ...

  • Canada's Dylan Armstrong, from Kamloops, B.C., throws during the shot put final at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Friday, August 15, 2008. Armstrong is one step closer to getting an Olympic bronze medal in shot put following Belarusian Andrei Mikhnevich's lifetime ban for a doping violation.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz

    Canada's Armstrong closer to shot put bronze from 2008 Games after athlete ban

    06/14/2013 10:33 AM 0

  • Spain passes new anti-doping law hoping to clean up image after Operation Puerto case

    06/13/2013 11:18 AM 0

    MADRID - Spain passed a new anti-doping law on Thursday that it hopes will clean up the country's tarnished image ...

  • Survey shows there has been a slight dip in number of men, women playing sport in England

    06/13/2013 6:13 AM 0

    LONDON - A survey shows there has been a dip in the number of men and women playing sport every ...

  • A protester, face stained by tear gas antidote, sleeps in Gezi Park in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. Riot police fired tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets in day-long clashes that lasted into the early hours Wednesday, battling protesters who have been occupying Istanbul's central Taksim Square and its adjacent Gezi Park in the country's most severe anti-government protests in decades. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

    Istanbul bidders: Turkish unrest will have 'no bearing' on 2020 Olympic project

    06/12/2013 12:57 PM 0

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  • USOC keeping eye on 2020 Olympic bid race ahead of possible 2024 candidacy

    06/12/2013 4:22 AM 0

    The U.S. Olympic Committee is observing the bidding for the 2020 Games, hoping to learn something from Istanbul, Madrid and ...

  • FILE - This is a Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012, file photo of India's Deepika Kumari shoots as she during an elimination round of the individual archery competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics, in London. Feted as a fashionable sport by the entertainment industry, archery has also hit its target of achieving higher Olympic status. Elite archers compete this week in their seasonlong World Cup series at Antalya, Turkey, in the first major event since the IOC board elevated the sport in a Summer Games ranking that ensures it will a bigger share of Olympic revenues every four years. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

    Boosted by movie and TV hits, archery is hitting its target as rising Olympic sport

    06/12/2013 4:03 AM 0

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