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Salt Lake City wins 2034 Winter Olympics – at the cost of a major FBI investigation
The FBI is investigating 23 Chinese swimmers who competed in the 2021 Tokyo Games after failing doping tests
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Winter Olympics are officially heading back to Salt Lake City in 2034. Everything to know
IOC members voted to formally award the 2034 Winter Olympics to Salt Lake City, bringing the Games back to the city that previously hosted in 2002.
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IOC approves French Alps' bid backed by President Macron to host the 2030 Winter Olympics
The French Alps were named as the 2030 Winter Games host by the International Olympic Committee on Wednesday, though with conditions attached and signoff required from whoever is the next prime minister of France. French President Emmanuel Macron helped present the bid to IOC members and gave assurances that the new prime minister and government he intends to install after the Summer Games in Paris will underwrite all the organizational guarantees that must still be signed. IOC members accepte
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Salt Lake City celebrates announcement that it will host the 2034 Winter Olympics
Salt Lake City was formally awarded the 2034 Winter Olympics and Paralympics following a vote Wednesday by the International Olympic Committee in Paris, giving Utah its second Games after hosting in 2002. About a thousand sports fans gathered in downtown Salt Lake City at 3 a.m. local time — 11 a.m. in Paris — to watch the long-anticipated announcement on a livestream. The crowd erupted in cheers as Olympic officials made their final decision to return to a city where they said the local enthu
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Where is the next Winter Olympics? Where to spot cold-weather competitions in 2026.
During the Winter Olympics, athletes grab skis and snowboards and compete in the world's snowiest locations. Here's where that is next, in 2026.
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Sjoukje Dijkstra, the first Dutch athlete to win a gold medal at Winter Olympics, dies at 82
Sjoukje Dijkstra, the figure skater who in 1964 became the first Dutch athlete to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics, has died at the age of 82. Dijkstra's daughter, Katja Kossmayer Dijkstra, said in a Facebook post that her mother “passed away peacefully at home” on Thursday. Dijkstra skated at three Winter Olympics, finishing 12th in Cortina d’Ampezzo in 1956 before winning a silver medal at Squaw Valley in 1960.
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French bid to host 2030 Winter Olympics talks with Italy, Netherlands to stage speed skating
The favored French candidacy to host the 2030 Winter Olympics is in talks with the Netherlands and Italy to stage speed skating races. The cross-border option was detailed on Monday by International Olympic Committee officials ahead of a visit next week to proposed venues in French Alps ski resorts and Nice, the upscale French Riviera coastal city. “We have several candidates with whom the French team will discuss,” the IOC executive director of the Olympic Games, Christophe Dubi, said in an o
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Russian skater's doping case leaves WADA uneasy and targeting new rules before next Winter Olympics
The doping case of Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva left a “very unpleasant” taste with the World Anti-Doping Agency, which is unhappy that the teenager was the only one punished with a ban while her coaches and entourage have not been sanctioned. WADA now wants anti-doping rules to be updated before the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy to give more powers to investigate athlete entourages, officials said at the anti-doping body's annual conference Tuesday. “It is clear that the taste of this
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Brazil gains Winter Olympics medal prospect after skier Lucas Braathen switches from Norway
Brazil has a top Winter Olympics medal prospect in Alpine skiing after the World Cup slalom champion last season, Lucas Braathen, announced on Thursday he will start to compete for his mother’s home nation. Braathen, whose father is Norwegian, split from the Nordic nation’s ski team on the eve of the season last October in a dispute over having freedom to work with his own sponsors. At age 23, Braathen opted out of the entire season and skipped the defense of his World Cup slalom title.
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On this day in 2010 – Amy Williams claims skeleton gold at Winter Olympics
The 27-year-old won Britain’s first individual Winter Olympic title in 30 years.
