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International Olympic Committee member Samih Moudallal, of Syria, waits for the IOC's general assembly to convene on its first day at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

IOC backs proposal to set up Olympic TV channel

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International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, left, talks with Director General Christophe De Kepper, right, and executive board member John Coates, prior to opening the IOC's general assembly at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

IOC considers independent body for whistleblowers

By STEPHEN WILSON - Associated Press

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, left, talks with Director General Christophe De Kepper, right, and executive board member John Coates, prior to opening the IOC's general assembly at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

IOC urged not to pay sports to attend Olympics

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

The photo taken with a fisheye lens show the start area on the large hill of the ski jumping stadium for the 2014 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Korek happy to see an end of jumping “injustice”

By DENNIS PASSA - Associated Press

Kumaritashvili’s death remembered at Sochi Games

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Claudia Bokel retains athletes’ seat on IOC board

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Russian President Vladimir Putin pets a snow leopard cub at the snow leopard sanctuary in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. Putin checked in Tuesday at a preserve for endangered snow leopards and visited a group of cubs born last summer in the mountains above the growing torrent of activity in Sochi for the Winter Games. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

Putin strokes leopard, wins IOC support

By STEVEN R. HURST and STEPHEN WILSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014, file photo, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, right, embraces executive board member Anita DeFrantz before the start of an executive board meeting at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. DeFrantz won the bronze medal in rowing in the 1976 Olympics, but missed out on the 1980 Moscow Olympics because of the U.S.-led boycott. Now, after all those years, DeFrantz is in Russia for an Olympics. Not as a competitor, but as the highest-ranking American in the international Olympic world. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

DeFrantz savors Sochi after 1980 Moscow boycott

By STEPHEN WILSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, Aug. 10, 2013 file photo, demonstrators stage a theatrical play where gays are grabbed by others wearing masks of Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a protest against Russia's new anti-gay law banning &quot;propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations&quot; in central London. Despite seven months of international protests, Russia's law restricting gay-rights activity remains in place leading up to the winter olympic games. Yet the eclectic campaign has heartened activists in Russia and, without question, caught the attention of its targets - including organizers and sponsors of the Sochi Olympics that open on Feb. 7. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Sochi sponsors pulled into gay-rights fray; activists fly to Russia to join protests

By David Crary - Associated Press

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, center right, arrives at Sochi International Airport prior to the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics on Friday, Jan. 31, 2014 in Sochi, Russia. The Olympic games will run from Feb. 7-23. (AP Photo/Matthew Stockman, Pool)

New IOC president faces challenging 1st games

By STEPHEN WILSON - Associated Press

Russian security personnel wait for deployment in the Olympic Park as security measures continue to be implemented for the 2014 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

IOC to review Sochi’s final preparations, security

By STEPHEN WILSON - Associated Press

Interpol, IOC to step up sports security measures

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Quick look at Russian Olympic doping cases

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - This is a Tuesday Sept. 25, 2012 file photo of Sochi 2014 Olympics President and CEO Dmitry Chernyshenko as he speaks to the Associated Press in Moscow. Chernyshenko the chief organizer of the Sochi Olympics says the Russian city is the ``most secure venue on the planet’’ and promises the tight security measures will not detract from the atmosphere of the games. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)

Sochi organizers clarify free-speech issue

By CHRIS LEHOURITES - Associated Press

FILE - This is a Tuesday Sept. 25, 2012 file photo of Sochi 2014 Olympics President and CEO Dmitry Chernyshenko as he speaks to the Associated Press in Moscow. Chernyshenko the chief organizer of the Sochi Olympics says the Russian city is the ``most secure venue on the planet’’ and promises the tight security measures will not detract from the atmosphere of the games. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)

Sochi organizers back-track on free speech

By CHRIS LEHOURITES - Associated Press

Interpol to help sniff out crime at Olympics

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New hope to add 3-on-3 basketball at Rio Olympics

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

FILE - This is a Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014, file photo of a worker leaving after checking ice conditions at the Iceberg Skating Palace, where the figure skating and short track speed skiing will take place, at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. The Olympics begin Feb. 7th. You'd have to be a dope to try to get away with doping at the Sochi Olympics. That's the picture painted by international Olympic and anti-doping officials as they implement the toughest drug-testing program in Winter Games history.Using intelligence to target athletes and events considered most at risk, authorities are focusing their efforts on weeding out drug cheats through rigorous pre-games and pre-competition tests. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Sochi Olympics: Toughest drug-testing program in Winter Games history in place

By Stephen Wilson - Associated Press

FILE - This is a Feb. 19, 2006 file photo of an Italian police officer as he stands outside a house where members of the Austrian Biathlon team were searched on the anti-doping police raid in San Sicario, Italy. You'd have to be a dope to try to get away with doping at the Sochi Olympics. That's the picture painted by international Olympic and anti-doping officials as they implement the toughest drug-testing program in Winter Games history.Using intelligence to target athletes and events considered most at risk, authorities are focusing their efforts on weeding out drug cheats through rigorous pre-games and pre-competition tests. (AP Photo/Tom Curley, FILE)

Tough drug-testing net in place for Sochi Olympics

By STEPHEN WILSON - Associated Press

Security personnel walk with their dogs outside Fisht Olympic Stadium at the 2014 Winter Olympics Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. The Olympics begin Feb. 7th. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Bach backs Russia on security for Sochi Olympics

By STEPHEN WILSON - Associated Press