Olympic Newsdesk
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October 14, 2015
(ATR) The 2015 World Boxing Championships are doubling as a qualifier for Rio 2016 and as a springboard for head guard reforms.
China's Wei Liu (left) fights Morocco's Moha...
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October 12, 2015
(ATR) A leader of the International Cycling Union says he thinks mountain bike events during next year's Olympics will one-up competition staged at London 2012.
Switzerlan...
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October 11, 2015
Construction outside of the Rio Olympic Park (Getty Images)
(ATR) The third and final Rio 2016 Press Operations Briefing wrapped up in Rio de Janeiro on Oct. 8.
It was the...
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October 12, 2015
(ATR) The IOC meets with Tokyo 2020, Oct. 13-14, for a review of progress on the 2020 Olympic Games.
(L-R) IOC vice president John Coates and Tokyo 2020 president Yoshiro M...
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October 09, 2015
(ATR) Chris Eaton, executive director of Sport Integrity at the International Center for Sport Security (ICSS), tells Around the Rings that FIFA is "crying out" for a structur...
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October 08, 2015
(ATR) The FIFA Ethics Committee has slapped Sepp Blatter with a 90-day suspension from football and handed down a similar ban for secretary general Jerome Valcke and UEFA chie...
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October 06, 2015
(ATR) The third and final Rio 2016 Press Operations Briefing is underway in Rio de Janeiro.
The interior of the Engenhao Olympic Stadium in Rio (Getty Images)
It is the fi...
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October 02, 2015
(ATR) Authorities in Greece have reopened an unused Olympic venue from the 2004 Games to house migrants and refugees camped out in Athens.
A view of the Galatsi Olympic Hal...
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October 02, 2015
(ATR) The Vatican City is sending a representative to meet with the IOC in January in an effort to create an office between the two groups.
St. Peters Square in the Vatican...
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October 05, 2015
(ATR) Rio 2016 will brief media from around the world on preparations for next year's Olympic Games this week.
Rio 2016 president Carlos Nuzman addresses media last August ...
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September 30, 2015
(ATR) Around the Rings received an exclusive tour of the USOC Ted Stevens Sport Science Center while at the USOC Olympic and Paralympic Assembly in Colorado Springs, Colorad...
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October 01, 2015
(ATR) Mayor Eduardo Paes opened the second venue in the Deodoro Olympic Park on Sept. 29.
The mayor, along with local children released the water that will fill the Olymp...
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