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FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2016, file photo, Belgian runners, from left, Kim Gevaert, Elodie Ouedraogo, Olivia Borlee and Hanna Marien stand on the podium after receiving the gold medal for the women's 4 x 100 meter relay at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, during the Diamond League Memorial Van Damme athletics event at the King Baudouin stadium in Brussels. The Belgian team, initially winning silver, were moved up to gold after one runner on the Russian team tested positive for a banned substance. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Gotcha! Science’s march nets dopers, rights Olympic wrongs

By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 16, 2015, file photo, a skyscraper reflects in a pool of water in the site of Japan's National Stadium demolished for the renovation for the 2020 Olympic games as the compound is shown to the media for the first time after the completion of the demolition work in Tokyo. The price tag of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics could exceed 3 trillion yen ($30 billion) unless drastic cost-cutting measures are taken and several key venues are relocated, an expert panel warned Thursday, Sept. 30, 2016, in the latest blow to Japanese organizers. &quot;Naturally, anyone who hears these numbers is alarmed,&quot; panel leader Shinichi Ueyama said. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

IOC: All options on table in cost-cutting for Tokyo Games

By JIM ARMSTRONG - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 16, 2015, file photo, a skyscraper reflects in a pool of water in the site of Japan's National Stadium demolished for the renovation for the 2020 Olympic games as the compound is shown to the media for the first time after the completion of the demolition work in Tokyo. The price tag of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics could exceed 3 trillion yen ($30 billion) unless drastic cost-cutting measures are taken and several key venues are relocated, an expert panel warned Thursday, Sept. 30, 2016, in the latest blow to Japanese organizers. &quot;Naturally, anyone who hears these numbers is alarmed,&quot; panel leader Shinichi Ueyama said. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

Tokyo panel details venue changes, cost cuts for 2020 Games

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

3 weightlifters stripped of Olympic golds in doping cases

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FILE - In this Aug. 8, 2008 file photo fireworks explode during the opening ceremony in the National Stadium at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing. The IOC said Friday July 22, 2016, that 45 more athletes — including 23 medalists — have been caught for doping in retesting of samples from the 2008 and 2012 Olympics. The new cases bring to 98 the number of athletes who have failed tests so far in the reanalysis of their stored samples form the Beijing and London Games. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, file)

9 athletes, including 6 medalists, caught for Beijing doping

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FILE - This is a Wednesday, July 6, 2016 file photo of Russian doping whistleblower Yulia Stepanova who ran under a neutral flag smiles as she arrives in the stadium to compete in a women's 800m heat during the European Athletics Championships in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The International Olympic Committee said Monday Oct. 24, 2016 that it is offering career assistance to the Russian wife and husband team of Yulia Stepanova and Vitaly Stepanov who blew the whistle on widespread doping in their homeland. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

IOC says it is offering assistance to Russian whistleblowers

By STEPHEN WILSON - Associated Press

FILE - This is a Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010 file photo of Russia's Besik Kudukhov as he reacts after defeating Ukraine's Vasyl Fedoryshyn during their 60kg freestyle final match at the World Wrestling Championships in Moscow, Russia. Russia said Monday Oct. 24, 2016 that the International Olympic Committee has dropped an investigation into a deceased wrestler Besik Kudukhov who allegedly tested positive for a banned steroid when an old sample was retested. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze, File)

Russia says doping probe into deceased wrestler dropped

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IOC official ‘very happy’ with possible Innsbruck 2026 bid

By ERIC WILLEMSEN - Associated Press

IOC President Thomas Bach speaks to the media following his meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Abe's official residence in Tokyo Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016. With Abe, Bach discussed the possibility of staging some Olympic events in the northeastern region of Japan hit by the 2011 tsunami and Fukushima disaster. &quot;Baseball and softball were some of the options under discussion,&quot; Bach said. (Yoshinobu Shimizu/Kyodo News via AP)

Bach proposes holding 2020 events in disaster area

By JIM ARMSTRONG - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, July 26, 2005 file photo Russian Tatyana Andrianova crosses the finish line to win the DN Galan 800m event in Stockholm. Numerous doping cases in track and field may go unpunished because the sport’s governing body tested samples after their time limit had expired. One athlete who could benefit from the decision is Russian runner Tatyana Andrianova. She was banned by the IAAF in December after the steroid stanozolol was found in a sample from the day she won bronze in the 800 meters at the 2005 worlds. She has already appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. (AP Photo/ Mark Earthy, File) SWEDEN OUT

Russian weightlifter loses 2012 Olympic silver in dope case

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International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, left, arrives at Haneda Airport in Tokyo Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016. Bach is set to meet Tokyo's governor pushing for changes to some of the planned venues for the 2020 Games. (Hiroki Yamauchi/Kyodo News via AP)

Thomas Bach reminds Tokyo to stick with current venue plans

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

IOC: Beijing makes ‘fast start’ in preparing for 2022 Games

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Bach urges European governments to help in anti-doping fight

Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo dated Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012, Russia's Tatyana Lysenko is flanked by Poland's Anita Wlodarczyk, left, and Germany's Betty Heidler on the podium for the women's hammer throw event in the Olympic Stadium at the 2012 Summer Olympics, in London. The IOC says Tuesday Oct. 11, 2016, Lysenko tested positive for the steroid turinabol in reanalysis of her stored samples, has been retroactively disqualified from the London Olympic games, and stripped of her gold medal. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, FILE)

Russian stripped of 2012 Olympic women’s hammer throw gold

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Anti-doping leaders: IOC moves at summit ‘not sufficient’

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - This is a Friday, Feb. 26, 2016 file photo of IOC President Thomas Bach as he speaks during the extraordinary FIFA congress in Zurich, Switzerland, Friday, Feb. 26, 2016. With the Russian doping scandal still causing discord across the international sports world, Olympic leaders will meet Saturday to consider ways of revamping a global drug-testing system battered by political disputes and a loss of public confidence. (AP Photo/Michael Probst File)

Doping Discord: Olympic summit to seek unity in drug fight

By STEPHEN WILSON - Associated Press

Gunilla Lindberg, the head of IOC’s coordination commission for the 2018 Games, speaks during a news conference in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Friday, Oct. 7, 2016. (Park Young-seo/Yonhap via AP)

IOC: Pyeongchang’s biggest challenge is promoting the games

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FILE - In this May 18, 2007, file photo, Christiane Ayotte, director of the Montreal WADA accredited laboratory, testifies during an arbitration hearing on the doping allegations against 2006 Tour de France champion Floyd Landis at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif. Ayotte, the director of the WADA-accredited anti-doping laboratory in Montreal, tells The Associated Press she is wary of the anti-doping summit the International Olympic Committee is holding Saturday, Oct. 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)

Lab director to AP: Anti-doping discord harms clean sports

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko speaks during a news conference in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2015. Mutko said doping has been yet another try to paint Russia as a villain, and dismissed any claims that the government was involved in doping cover-ups. Instead, he suggested that athletes should take personal responsibility for the breach of sports regulations. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Russian loses 2008 Olympic high jump bronze in doping case

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French President Francois Hollande, left, poses with International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, after Bach received an Olympic flag from the 1924 Olympics games during a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. Paris, which last hosted the Olympics in 1924, is competing against Budapest, Rome and Los Angeles for the games. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu, Pool)

IOC president ‘impressed’ by Paris 2024 bid

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press