Four Olympians from the 2004 Athens Games were stripped of medals by the IOC for doping violations.
The IOC says it has opened a disciplinary case against a South Korea soccer player who displayed a political banner after his team beat Japan in the London Games bronze-medal match.
Eight years after winning Olympic medals in Athens, four track and field athletes from eastern Europe were ordered to hand them back Wednesday because of positive doping tests.
With concern mounting about the pace of progress for the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro, the IOC warned Brazilian organizers Tuesday that "time is ticking" and they must attack the project "with all vigor" to ensure that the first Olympics in South America are a success.
Lindsey Vonn (Vail, Colo.) highlighted a strong weekend for the U.S. by sweeping both downhill events along with the super-G at the world cup, which ran from Nov. 29-Dec. 2 in Lake Louise, Alberta. Vonn and teammate Stacey Cook (Mammoth Mountain, Calif.) had a one-two finish in the downhill events, while Julia Mancuso (Squaw Valley, Calif.) finished just behind Vonn in the super-G.
The IOC suspended India's national Olympic committee on Tuesday because of government interference in its election process, a major embarrassment for the world's second most populous nation.
His seven Tour de France titles erased from cycling's record books, Lance Armstrong still holds claim to one piece of sports hardware - an Olympic medal.
For the first-time ever, the U.S. women's cross country ski team finished on the podium in a world cup relay event. After Holly Brooks (Anchorage, Alaska), Kikkan Randall (Anchorage, Alaska) and Liz Stephen (East Montpelier, Vt.) put the team into medal position in the 4x5-kilometer event in Gaellivare, Sweden, Jessie Diggins (Afton, Minn.) outsprinted Norway II to claim bronze for the team. A day earlier, Randall scored the bronze medal in the 10K freestyle race.
His spot in Olympic sailing history secure, Ben Ainslie will now try to become the first Englishman to hoist the America's Cup in victory.
IOC President Jacques Rogge supports proposals to double the length of doping bans to four years as a way of keeping drug cheats out of the Olympics.
Katie Uhlaender (Breckenridge, Colo.) had a two-run total of 1:40.93 to finish first in the women's skeleton world cup race on Nov. 16 in Park City, Utah. The two-time Olympian narrowly edged Elizabeth Yarnold of Great Britain (1:40.94) to secure her first world cup victory since 2008.
Defending world champions Steve Holcomb (Park City, Utah) and Steve Langton (Melrose, Mass.) continued their domination of the two-man bobsled, winning the first world cup event of the season in Lake Placid, N.Y., on Nov. 9. The U.S. men finished gold and silver a day after the U.S. women finished silver and bronze on the Lake Placid track. Jazmine Fenlator (Wayne, N.J.) and Lolo Jones (Des Moines, Iowa) used a brilliant second run to slide into second place after being in sixth place.
Heather Richardson (Salt Lake City, Utah) won the 1,500-meter
Ted Ligety (Park City, Utah) sliced through a blizzard on Ret
American hurdler Lolo Jones has been named to the United States bobsled team.
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