Pyeongchang will be the first city in Asia outside Japan to host the Winter Games. Japan held the games in Sapporo in 1972 and Nagano in 1998.
The Korean victory followed the IOC's trend in recent votes, having taken the Winter Games to Russia (Sochi) for the first time in 2014 and giving South America its first Olympics with the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro.
Auto Racing
* The province of Quebec rejected a request for $1 million in government assistance for NASCAR's Nationwide Series race in Montreal, putting next year's event in jeopardy.
* The NASCAR Nationwide Series and Grand-Am Road Racing will hold events at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway the same weekend as the Brickyard 400 next year, adding a new series and three races to the Speedway's schedule.
Sport Stops
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Anthony Galea, a Canadian sports doctor whose high-profile clients have included
Tiger Woods and
Alex Rodriguez, pleaded guilty in federal court in Buffalo to charges he brought unapproved drugs, including human growth hormone, into the United States to unlawfully treat pro athletes. The indictment did not identify any clients, but prosecutors said they included golfers, professional baseball and football players and others.
* Toni Katic scored 21 points to lead Croatia to an 87-85 victory over the United States in Riga, Latvia, in the second round of FIBA's Under 19 World Championship, the defending champion's first loss in the tournament.
* Top-ranked Caroline Wozniacki retired from her second-round match at the Swedish Open against Sofia Arvidsson because of a shoulder injury.
* Australian road cyclist Carly Hibberd was killed after being hit by a car while training in Italy. Australia's department of foreign affairs and trade said that the 26-year-old Hibberd, from Queensland state, died after she was struck by a car in Como in the northern part of Italy.
* FIFA's investigators have gathered more evidence of bribery against suspended executive Mohamed bin Hammam during his campaign to become president of world soccer's governing body, a person familiar with the case told the Associated Press. Nine of the 24 Caribbean Football Union members who attended a meeting in Trinidad in May have admitted to ex-FBI director Louis Freeh that they were offered or accepted $40,000 payments from bin Hammam.
* Stanford basketball coach Johnny Dawkins has signed a 2-year contract extension that takes him through the 2015-16 season.
