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Athletes, organizations discuss 2034 Games announcement
Local Sports
LAKE PLACID — While four-time Olympic U.S. skier Lindsey Vonn leapt from her chair following the International Olympic Committee’s announcement that Salt Lake City, Utah was named the host for the 2034 Olympic Winter Games, in Lake Placid, local luge Olympian Ashley Farquharson waited ...
An Olympic-sized fight erupts among anti-doping officials, and it’s just getting started
Winter Olympic Sports
PARIS — The stream of threats, recriminations and anti-doping innuendo flowed freely again Thursday when tensions over a U.S. law designed to combat drugs in sports escalated on the eve of the Paris Olympics. It’s a fight that’s been simmering for a decade, sparked by Russia’s ...
Can-Am Rugby returns this weekend
Local Sports
SARANAC LAKE — One of the largest rugby tournaments in the United States is set to return to the Tri-Lakes this weekend for three days of action, all while celebrating its 50th anniversary and expanding to Tupper Lake. The tournament, which started in 1974, will start on Friday and ...
Salt Lake City celebrates that it will host 2034 Winter Olympics
Local Sports
SALT LAKE CITY — 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 ...
Utah will host 2034 Winter Olympics
Winter Olympic Sports
PARIS — What was expected to be a simple coronation of Salt Lake City as the 2034 Winter Olympic host turned into complicated Olympic politics Wednesday, as the IOC pushed Utah officials to end an FBI investigation into a suspected doping coverup. The International Olympic Committe formally ...