NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said NHL participation in the next Olympics would likely hinge on money. IIHF president Rene Fasel recently revealed that the IOC and their president Thomas Bach aren't interested in paying costs which it has covered for the past five Olympics.

Pau Gasol is considering not playing at the Olympics because of the Zika virus. The Spanish basketball player said Monday there is too much uncertainty about the situation in Brazil and anyone going to Rio de Janeiro for the games should "think about" whether it's worth the risk.

Russia's Olympic Committee said Saturday that eight of the country's athletes have registered positive in doping retests for the 2012 London Games.

Top-ranked tennis player Novak Djokovic says cancelling the Olympics "is unthinkable" and, "for the moment," he is still planning to compete at the Rio de Janiero Games, despite worries about the Zika virus.

The World Health Organization says there is "no public health justification" for postponing or cancelling the Rio de Janeiro Olympics because of the Zika outbreak.

Health experts on Friday urged the World Health Organization to consider whether the Rio de Janeiro Olympics should be postponed or moved because of the Zika outbreak.

Nearly two dozen athletes tested positive in reanalysis of their doping samples from the 2012 London Olympics, adding to the more than 30 already caught in retesting from the 2008 Beijing Games.

World Anti-Doping Agency president Craig Reedie has appointed Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren as the independent overseer of an investigation into allegations of state-sponsored doping at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.

Rio de Janeiro Olympics organizers say they have sold 67 per cent of available tickets. Ticket director Donovan Ferretti gave the update on Friday as the tickets designs were also unveiled for the first time.