MUNICH Willy Bogner has been named head of Munich's bid for the 2018 Winter Olympics.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia With 100 days to the opening of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, the athletes village was handed over to the Games organizers Wednesday.

U.S. Figure Skating announced Wednesday that San Jose will be the host city of its 2012 national championships.

NEW YORK A very confident adolescent boy stopped skating around the Rockefeller Center rink to ask Gretchen Bleiler something.

Taylor Phinney had a simple plan. The budding American cycling star was going to spend four years working toward four minutes, which is about how long his final race would have taken at the 2012 London Games.

NEW YORK Short track speedskater J.R. Celski is confident he'll recover from a deep gash to his leg in time for February's Vancouver Olympics.

LONDON London Olympic organizers will tender for $1.1 billion worth of goods and services between now and the 2012 Games.

BEIJING Chinese officials continue to struggle to find uses for the Bird's Nest Stadium, the iconic centerpiece of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

WHITEHORSE, Yukon Territory The Olympic flame is about to light up Canada's North.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. The leaders of the U.S. Olympic Committee are going through the kind of year that won't look good on their resumes.

VANCOUVER The final round of ticket sales for the 2010 Winter Olympics begins Saturday.

LONDON Queen Elizabeth II visited the Olympic Park on Tuesday to inspect preparations for the 2012 London Games.

The United States Olympic hockey team for the 2010 Games in Vancouver will be revealed during NBC's broadcast of the NHL's Winter Classic on January 1.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates The ruler of Dubai has taken part in a high-level meeting to discuss the Gulf emirate's possible bid for the 2020 Olympics.

LONDON British officials have acquired a $64 million radio communications system to boost security for the 2012 London Olympics.

DUNCAN, British Columbia A day after protests disrupted the relay, Olympic torchbearers ran, rode and rolled through Vancouver Island towns Saturday early in the journey across Canada.

The torch relay for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games officially got underway on Friday.

VICTORIA, British Columbia Protesters forced the 2010 Vancouver Games torch relay to be diverted from its planned route Friday, hours after organizers kicked off what is supposed to be the longest domestic torch relay in Olympic history.

LONDON Encouraged by the improving economy in the United States, the International Olympic Committee plans to begin negotiations on U.S. broadcast rights for the 2014 and 2016 Games next year.

DENVER The U.S. Olympic Committee picked the team that will search for a new CEO, hoping to replace Stephanie Streeter by the end of the year.

ROME The Italian Olympic Committee announced plans to vaccinate its athletes and officials against swine flu for the Vancouver Winter Games and Paralympics.

LONDON Britain plans to host a "world-class" sporting event at least once every two weeks from now until the start of the London 2012 Olympics.

ATHENS, Greece The Greek Olympic Committee has acknowledged that it was wrong to allow a hurdler serving a doping ban to take part in the Vancouver flame relay.

OTTAWA The head of security for the Vancouver Olympics says the cost of providing protection for the 2010 Winter Games shouldn't go over budget - and may be less than expected.

RIO DE JANEIRO Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says Rio de Janeiro is capable of hosting a safe 2016 Olympics and the city will show it deserved to win the games.

MOSCOW Russian apparel brand Bosco Sport signed up as leading domestic sponsor of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi on Wednesday in a deal worth more than $100 million.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia Canadian hockey star Sidney Crosby will carry the Olympic torch in his home province of Nova Scotia next month.

LONDON The International Olympic Committee will convene a special conference of medical experts to draw up guidelines for dealing with "ambiguous" gender cases in the wake of South African runner Caster Semenya's sex-test controversy.

MOSCOW International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge says he's pleased with Russia's preparations for the 2014 Sochi Games.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland Visa extended its global sponsorship deal with the International Olympic Committee through 2020 on Tuesday.

WHISTLER, British Columbia American skeleton racer Katie Uhlaender became the latest Monday to complain about the access organizers of the Vancouver Games are granting to their Olympic venues.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland After the excitement of bidding and the euphoria of winning, the reality of making the 2016 Olympics happen starts in Rio de Janeiro this week.

LONDON Construction has been completed of the first building on the Olympic Park site for the 2012 London Games.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia Vancouver's Olympic coffers are flush with cash but money is not yet coming in at the rate organizers would like.

LONDON Veteran U.S. sports executive Doug Arnot can add overseas experience to his resume after being given a leading role in the 2012 London Games.

MILWAUKEE Shani Davis just shook his head and laughed.

Making the U.S. Winter Olympic team is no clear-cut deal. Most athletes earn their spots not at Olympic trials, but based on their performances during World Cup events in the months leading up to the Games.

MILWAUKEE Shani Davis finished up a brilliant week at the U.S. speedskating trials with a surprisingly easy win in the 10,000 meters Sunday. Then he delivered even bigger news: He's willing to consider being part of team pursuit at the Olympics.

Individual tryouts are complete for U.S. bobsled and skeleton Olympic hopefuls.

Zach Lund is a significant step closer to finally competing in the Olympics.