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Tusk: Poland Will Seek to Host Olympics in 2040 or 2044

FILE PHOTO: Paris 2024 Olympics - Beach Volleyball - Men's Preliminary Phase - Pool C - Poland vs France (Bryl/Losiak vs Bassereau/Lyneel) - Eiffel Tower Stadium, Paris, France - August 01, 2024. The Eiffel Tower and the Olympic rings are illuminated at the end of the game. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Paris 2024 Olympics - Beach Volleyball - Men's Preliminary Phase - Pool C - Poland vs France (Bryl/Losiak vs Bassereau/Lyneel) - Eiffel Tower Stadium, Paris, France - August 01, 2024. The Eiffel Tower and the Olympic rings are illuminated at the end of the game. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo/File Photo
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Tusk: Poland Will Seek to Host Olympics in 2040 or 2044

FILE PHOTO: Paris 2024 Olympics - Beach Volleyball - Men's Preliminary Phase - Pool C - Poland vs France (Bryl/Losiak vs Bassereau/Lyneel) - Eiffel Tower Stadium, Paris, France - August 01, 2024. The Eiffel Tower and the Olympic rings are illuminated at the end of the game. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Paris 2024 Olympics - Beach Volleyball - Men's Preliminary Phase - Pool C - Poland vs France (Bryl/Losiak vs Bassereau/Lyneel) - Eiffel Tower Stadium, Paris, France - August 01, 2024. The Eiffel Tower and the Olympic rings are illuminated at the end of the game. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo/File Photo

Poland will seek to host the Olympic Games in 2040 or 2044, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Friday.
Tusk said it was not yet clear whether the goal was realistic for Poland. However, according to Reuters, he said he believed he could do a lot to make it happen.
"Taking into account the preliminary decisions and declaration of the International Olympic Committee, we can talk about 2040 or 2044," Tusk told reporters at a news conference on modernizing soccer stadiums.
Poland with Ukraine co-hosted Euro football tournament in 2012 and last summer hosted the multi-sports European Games, but has never hosted the Olympic Games.
The previous Polish government had said it would bid to hold the Olympics in summer 2036.
Los Angeles will host the 2028 summer Games and Brisbane, Australia, is preparing to stage the 2032 Olympics.
Egypt has also said it will bid to host 2036 and 2040 summer Olympics.
Potential host nations' willingness to take on the Olympic Games was in doubt after questions about scandals, costs and legacy. Tokyo's 2020 Games were largely spectator-less because of COVID.
But the Games that ended earlier this month in Paris have been credited with rejuvenating the Olympic brand.

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Top-Ranked Iga Swiatek, Jannik Sinner Advance in Cincinnati Open

Iga Swiatek of Poland serves during her match against Varvara Gracheva of France during Day 4 of the Cincinnati Open at the Lindner Family Tennis Center on August 14, 2024 in Mason, Ohio. (Getty Images via AFP)
Iga Swiatek of Poland serves during her match against Varvara Gracheva of France during Day 4 of the Cincinnati Open at the Lindner Family Tennis Center on August 14, 2024 in Mason, Ohio. (Getty Images via AFP)
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Top-Ranked Iga Swiatek, Jannik Sinner Advance in Cincinnati Open

Iga Swiatek of Poland serves during her match against Varvara Gracheva of France during Day 4 of the Cincinnati Open at the Lindner Family Tennis Center on August 14, 2024 in Mason, Ohio. (Getty Images via AFP)
Iga Swiatek of Poland serves during her match against Varvara Gracheva of France during Day 4 of the Cincinnati Open at the Lindner Family Tennis Center on August 14, 2024 in Mason, Ohio. (Getty Images via AFP)

Top-ranked Iga Swiatek survived in her return to hard courts Wednesday night in the Cincinnati Open, outlasting Varvara Gracheva 6-0, 6-7 (8), 6-2.

Playing for the first time since finishing third for Poland in the Paris Olympics on clay, Swiatek set up a third-round match against Marta Kostyuk — a 6-3, 7-5 winner over Lulu Sun.

“For sure, the transition is probably the hardest, from like the slowest surface to the fastest surface,” Swiatek said. “But that’s why I’m still happy with my performance, and looking forward to another match to kind of still do the grinding and implement what I was working on, but not really focusing on the results.”

Swiatek won her third straight French Open title in May and has six WTA Tour victories this season.

On the men’s side in the US Open tuneup event, top-ranked Jannik Sinner got past American Alex Michelsen 6-4, 7-5 in his first match.

In the late match, Jiri Lehecka upset fourth-seeded Daniil Medvedev 7-6 (2), 6-4.

Earlier in women's play, 17-year-old Mirra Andreeva beat 11th seeded Emma Navarro 6-2, 6-2. Andreeva was playing her first match since taking a silver medal in doubles in Paris.

“I just went out there, tried to show my best level, and tried to win a match, and I think I did it,” Andreeva said.

Andreeva will face 2016 Cincinnati champion Karolina Pliskova.

Toronto semifinalist Diana Shnaider of Russia, Andreeva’s doubles partner in Paris, beat Zhang Shuai 6-1, 6-4.

Sinner improved to 25-2 on hard courts this season and advanced to a third-round meeting with Australia’s Jordan Thompson. Sinner is trying to reach the quarterfinals in Cincinnati for the first time.

“I’m very happy to be in the next round,” the Italian star said. “For me this is a place where I used to struggle a lot in the past years, so let’s see what I can do this time.”

Thompson beat Sebastian Baez 6-2, 6-4.

Stefanos Tsitsipas, in his first tournament since announcing he would no longer be coached by his father, rallied to beat Jan-Lennard Struff 4-6, 6-4, 6-3.

Tsitsipas, the No. 9 seed, revealed that Apostolos Tsitsipas would no longer coach him after losing to Kei Nishikori in his first match last week in Montreal.