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FILE - In this March 13, 2017, file photo, Craig Reedie, president of the world anti-doping agency (WADA), delivers his speech during the opening day of the 2017 WADA annual symposium in Lausanne, Switzerland. On Thursday, May 18, a bit over a year after The New York Times revealed the sordid specifics of a doping scandal that pervaded Russia’s Olympic team, the World Anti-Doping Agency’s governing board meets. (Valentin Flauraud/Keystone via AP, File)

Isinbayeva out, progress made on sanctions at WADA meeting

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

FILE - This June 30, 2015 file photo shows U.S. Olympic Comittee Chairman Larry Probst speaking during a news conference in Redwood City, Calif. Tucked into the more than $257 million the U.S. Olympic Committee spent in 2016 was a $10 million payment to the International Olympic Committee designed, in part, to give the United States a better chance of hosting an Olympics someday — possibly in Los Angeles in 2024. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, file)

USOC paid its way back into bidding game; LA could benefit

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

Co-president of Paris 2024 bid Tony Estanguet, front right, takes a selfie of the back row from left, International Olympic Committee Evaluation Commission Chair Patrick Baumann and new French President Emmanuel Macron, member of the IOC Guy Drut and co-president of the Paris 2024 bid Bernard Lapasset as they pose during a group photo at the Elysee palace in Paris, France, May 16, 2017. France's new President Emmanuel Macron is hosting the International Olympic Committee to try to boost Paris' bid to beat out Los Angeles in the heated race for the 2024 Games. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

IOC evaluation commission praises Paris’ vision

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

Patrick Baumann, president of the IOC Evaluation Commission for the 2024 Olympic Games addresses the IOC Evaluation Commission session in Paris, Sunday, May 14, 2017, as the International Olympic Committee visits Paris ahead of a the September vote for the 2024 Summer Olympics. (Franck Fife, Pool via AP)

With Macron on board, Paris 2024 bid is ‘ready right now’

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

A Los Angeles 2024 sign stands in front of Staples Center Thursday, May 11, 2017, in Los Angeles. After bidding for the 2024 Olympics, Los Angeles might have to wait. With the competition down to LA and Paris, International Olympic Committee leaders are considering a proposal to award the next two Olympics, 2024 and 2028, one to each city. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Evaluating LA bid for 2024 Olympics requires imagination

By BETH HARRIS and MICHAEL R. BLOOD - Associated Press

French President-elect Emmanuel Macron attends a ceremony commemorating the abolition of slavery, in Paris, Wednesday, May 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Paris Olympic bid believes Macron’s victory will be a boost

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

FILE - At left is a Feb. 13, 2008, file photo showing the facade of Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles. At right, in a Feb. 3, 2017, file photo, the Eiffel Tower is lit with colors for Paris 2024 during the launch of the international campaign of Paris as candidate for the 2024 Olympic summer games in Paris. Officially, Los Angeles and Paris are the only two bidders left for the 2024 Games that will be awarded in September at a meeting of Olympic leaders in Lima, Peru. On the table, however, is a proposal to use that meeting to dole out the next two Olympics _ 2024 and 2028 _ one to each city. (AP Photo/File)

Los Angeles Olympic dreams might be delayed to 2028

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD and BETH HARRIS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2017, file photo, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, center, speaks during a news conference in Los Angeles. More than a million Facebook users &quot;like&quot; the idea of hosting the 2024 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.Los Angeles and Paris await their Olympic inspectors this week already seen as winning options for the 2024 Summer Games. Both cities host three-day visits by an International Olympic Committee panel, whose chairman does not doubt their sports staging skills. “Either way, we will have fantastic Olympic Games,” IOC evaluation commission chairman Patrick Baumann told The Associated Press.on Monday May 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Los Angeles, Paris await Olympic inspectors in 2024 race

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

LA 2024 bid won’t shun Olympic powerbroker accused of bribes

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2016, file photo, IOC Vice President John Coates delivers a speech during the closing plenary session of the IOC Debriefing of the Olympic Games Rio 2016, in Tokyo. An increasingly bitter Olympic election in Australia has intensified with Coates describing the campaign against him as malicious and designed to damage him personally. Coates is facing his first challenge as president of the Australian Olympic Committee in 27 years, with 1996 Olympic field hockey gold medalist Danni Roche running against him in a May 6, 2017 ballot. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

John Coates’ IOC vice presidency on line in Australian vote

By DENNIS PASSA - Associated Press

IOC vows strengthened cooperation with McLaren, WADA

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IOC creates advisory panel for cyber security after hack

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FILE - In this Aug. 15, 2008 file photo Russia's Tatiana Chernova clears a hurdle in the heptathlon during the athletics competitions in the National Stadium at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing. IOC said Monday, April 24, 2017 that Chernova was stripped off her bronze medal after a re-analysis resulted in a positive drug test. (AP Photo/Thomas Kienzle, file)

Russia’s Chernova stripped of 2008 Olympic bronze for doping

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IOC commits to 2024 Olympic meeting in flood-hit Peru

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3 more Olympic medals stripped in IOC doping retests

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Tergat gets support of federations to be Kenya Olympic head

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Olympic bodies donate $600,000 to Peru for flood relief work

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FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2016, file photo, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, second from left, is flanked by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, left, LA 2024 chairman Casey Wasserman, second from right, and UCLA chancellor Gene Block, right, during a news conference in Los Angeles. As the IOC moves the goalpost in the 2024 Olympic contest, bid leaders from Los Angeles and Paris head to a campaign event in Denmark on Tuesday, April 4, 2017 unsure of exactly what they are shooting for. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

Olympic bidders LA, Paris meet IOC panel on 2024-2028 award

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, March 29, 2011 file photo, former British athlete and head of the LOCOG, Sebastian Coe, right, speaks to former Namibian athlete and Chairman of the IOC Athletes' Commission Frank Fredericks in the London 2012 Olympic stadium, London. Under investigation by an Olympic ethics panel over a $300,000 payment he received, IAAF Council member Frank Fredericks has been urged by a colleague to step aside from the governing body’s work. European Athletics president Svein-Arne Hansen’s call to Fredericks on Wednesday, March 22, 2017 came three weeks before track and field’s ruling council meets in London under the chairmanship of IAAF President Sebastian Coe. (AP Photo/Tom Hevezi, file)

Fredericks steps aside from IAAF work, to skip council meet

By ANDREW JACKSON ORYADA - Associated Press

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach speaks during a press conference in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Friday, March 17, 2017. The IOC has moved closer toward picking both Los Angeles and Paris to host a Summer Games in an unprecedented double vote this year. Bach has repeatedly hinted at picking both LA and Paris by awarding both the 2024 and 2028 Summer Games hosting rights at the IOC Session on Sept. 13. (Yoo Hyung-jae/Yonhap via AP)

Paris Olympic bid team tells IOC it doesn’t want 2028 Games

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press