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How to watch the 2020-21 figure skating season, including the Grand Prix Series, on TV on NBC Sports and streaming on Peacock Premium.

Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue, eyeing a third Skate America ice dance title, are leading up to their final Olympic run.

Alina Zagitova, the Olympic figure skating champion from Russia, extended her break from figure skating that will last more than one year.

USA Wrestling will not send a team to the world championships in December in Belgrade, citing health and safety issues from the coronavirus pandemic.

Bradie Tennell is starting fresh in Colorado Springs this season ahead of Skate America and planning to add a triple Axel to her repertoire.

Tokyo Olympic officials want the world to know they are working on measures to combat the COVID-19 pandemic at next year's games, even if they don't know exactly what they will be. Tokyo organizers showcased a few possible remedies on Wednesday, displaying various screening measures at the city’s Big Sight convention complex, the home of the media center for the Olympics. “Our objective is to demonstrate what we are doing toward the safety and security of the Olympics,� said Tsuyoshi Iwashita, the executive director of the Tokyo Olympics security bureau.

Figure skater Vincent Zhou competes at Skate America on a 16-month journey to a second and final Olympics in Beijing, which carries special meaning.

Ten Italian swimmers, including world champions Simona Quadarella and Gabriele Detti, tested positive for the coronavirus and were all asymptomatic.

Salwa Eid Naser, the world 400m champion from Bahrain, was cleared of a potential suspension in a drug-testing case that could have kept her out of the Tokyo Olympics.

Six Russian military officers sought to disrupt through computer hacking the French election, the Winter Olympics and U.S. businesses.

How to watch the 2020 Vuelta a Espana cycling Grand Tour in Spain on TV on Olympic Channel and live streaming on NBCSports.com and Peacock Premium.

Mike "Doc" Emrick, the hockey commentator who announced his retirement Monday, picked an Olympic moment as one of his favorite calls.

Internationaux de France, an annual Grand Prix figure skating event, has been canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Skate America, the first figure skating Grand Prix event, airs on TV on NBC and NBCSN and streams live on Peacock Premium.

Lucas Braathen of Norway won the men's Alpine skiing World Cup season-opening giant slalom in Soelden, Austria.

Italian Marta Bassino won the Alpine skiing World Cup women's giant slalom in Soelden, Austria.

Peres Jepchirchir broke the women's-only world record at the world half marathon championships. Jacob Kiplimo beat Joshua Cheptegei.

Federica Brignone, who passed an absent Mikaela Shiffrin for the Alpine skiing World Cup overall title, plans to be just as busy this year, if not busier.

The Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, a top-level February event for non-European skaters, has been canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Henrik Kristoffersen, Alexis Pinturault and Aleksander Aamodt Kilde enter the World Cup Alpine skiing season with claims to alpha status.

Zumretay Arkin posed a question in a recent on-line meeting with Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr., the prominent International Olympic Committee member who oversees preparations for the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing. “Why should China, a country running concentration camps with at least 1 million Muslim Uighurs being detained, be allowed to hold the Olympics?" she asked. Arkin, a spokeswoman for the World Uyghur Congress, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview that the response was disappointing.

The Alpine skiing World Cup starts Saturday in Soelden, Austria, during a coronavirus pandemic that could shake the schedule.

Italian swimmer Federica Pellegrini, an Olympic champion and world-record holder, said in a social media video that she tested positive for the coronavirus.

Former London Marathon winner Daniel Wanjiru of Kenya has been banned for four years for doping.

Sam Querrey, U.S. tennis player, tested positive for the coronavirus and then left Russia on a private plane, organizers of the St. Petersburg Open said.

The International Olympic Committee tried to assure dozens of international sports federations on Thursday that the postponed Tokyo Games will open on July 23. The IOC and Tokyo organizers have been holding on-line sessions this week with about 200 national Olympic committees, and with the more than 30 summer sports bodies that are represented on the program. “We are very confident that the games in Tokyo next year will take place," IOC sports director Kit McConnell told delegates in the on-line seminar.

Skate Canada, the second stop of figure skating's six-event Grand Prix Series scheduled for October, has been canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Weightlifting's Olympic future is in further doubt after the IWF's interim president was ousted and the International Olympic Committee expressed concern.

Dan Gable, an Olympic champion and legendary U.S. wrestler, will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.

Kristof Milak, the Hungarian who broke Michael Phelps' 200m butterfly world record last year, is recovering after contracting the coronavirus last month.

Daiya Seto, the world's best all-around swimmer, was suspended by the Japan Swimming Federation after it was learned he had an extramarital affair.

Brett Brown won't lead the Australian national team at the Tokyo Olympics next summer.

An event-by-event look at the women's track and field rankings for 2020.

An event-by-event look at the men's track and field rankings for 2020.

Meghan Duggan, captain of the U.S. Olympic champion women's hockey team, retired after competing in three Winter Games.

The Giro d'Italia had two full teams withdraw due to the coronavirus, including Jumbo-Visma, led by Steven Kruijswijk

IOC President Thomas Bach and Yoshiro Mori, the head of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee, gave an online pep talk Monday to national Olympic committee representatives to allay fears about the postponed games. About 200 national Olympic committees are expected to be represented next year in Tokyo. Organizers held an English-speaking session on Monday for chefs de mission, with French and Spanish sessions scheduled for later in the week.

Tokyo will host a one-off international gymnastics tournament next month, organisers said Monday, in what could serve as a practice run ahead of the postponed Olympics.

Rafael Nadal routed Novak Djokovic to win the French Open final, tying Roger Federer's male record 20 Grand Slam singles titles.

Roger Federer was quick to welcome Rafael Nadal to the club -- now tied for the male record 20 Grand Slam singles titles.

A list of the most Grand Slam tennis singles titles for men and women.

Rafael Nadal plays Novak Djokovic in the French Open men's final at Roland Garros, live on NBC Sports.

Iga Swiatek won the French Open, sweeping Sofia Kenin to finish the most unheralded run to a Grand Slam women's singles title in 40 years.

Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic will meet in the French Open final. Nadal can tie Roger Federer's Grand Slam record with a 13th Roland Garros title.

NBC Sports and Tennis Channel combine to air daily live coverage of the French Open at Roland Garros.

Sofia Kenin plays Iga Swiatek in the French Open women's final, streaming live on NBC Sports.

Adeline Gray returns to wrestling competition at nationals. One of her opponents could be her sister, wrestling in competition for the first time in nine years.

The 2020 French Open men's singles draw and bracket, headlined by Rafael Nadal.

The IOC denied claims on Friday that President Thomas Bach intervened to help steer an Olympic official implicated in corruption away from France where the investigation has been led. German daily Suddeutsche Zeitung's suggestion that Bach contradicted a regular promise to co-operate fully with prosecutors in Paris running sports-related cases was wrong, the International Olympic Committee said in a statement. The newspaper published part of a statement by former IOC member Frank Fredericks saying Bach believed he ''should be careful not to go to France'' when an alleged bribe payment was first reported in March 2017.

The U.S. is scheduled to host World Cup skiing and snowboarding events this winter in Copper Mountain, Mammoth Mountain and Deer Valley.