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Winter Olympics briefing: Heraskevych's helmet dispute raises tough questions
The Winter Olympics have been presented as a stage for unity - a place where nations set aside conflict, athletes chase excellence, and the world gathers in a shared celebration of human potential.
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IOC boots Ukraine's Vladyslav Heraskevych from Olympics for wearing helmet honoring war victims
The IOC announced "with regret" the decision just minutes before Heraskevych was to compete in men's skeleton
MILAN -- A Ukrainian skeleton pilot has been banned from competing at the Winter Olympics for insisting upon wearing a helmet featuring images of athletes killed during Russia's invasion of his home country.
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India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and the political tensions undermining cricket's T20 World Cup
The T20 World Cup is taking place - without one of the sport's leading nations ISHARA S. KODIKARA/Getty Images
The men's Twenty20 World Cup is supposed to be a celebration of cricket.
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As political talk rages in Milan, U.S. athletes are answering for their country
MILAN -- The words on the sign were hard to read at first, lost as they were in a tightly-packed hodgepodge of fans watching the men's Olympic short program Saturday night at Milano Ice Skating Arena.
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As political talk rages in Milan, U.S. athletes are answering for their country
MILAN -- The words on the sign were hard to read at first, lost as they were in a tightly-packed hodgepodge of fans watching the men's Olympic short program Saturday night at Milano Ice Skating Arena.
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Amid calls for World Cup boycott, Super Bowl in Santa Clara faces heightened scrutiny
When President Trump humbly accepted the coveted FIFA Peace Prize, little did he know that his greatest peacemaking challenge lies ahead: Saving next Summer's World Cup from chaos created by the old peacemeister himself.
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Tennis player criticizes Aryna Sabalenka and other stars over Russian invasion of Ukraine
MELBOURNE, Australia -- Oleksandra Oliynykova, the Ukrainian world No. 92, has called for Russian and Belarusian tennis players to be banned from competition, describing those she believes to support the countries' presidents, Vladimir Putin and Aleksandr Lukashenko, as "dangerous people.
