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The Latest: US gets 2nd member on IOC executive board

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Latest on the Rio Games (all times local to Rio de Janeiro):

1:25 p.m.

The United States will have a second member on the International Olympic Committee's executive board.

Former Olympic ice hockey gold medalist Angela Ruggiero was elected as chair of the IOC's athletes' commission on Monday, a position which automatically gives her a seat on the policy-making board.

Ruggiero will replace Claudia Bokel, a former Olympic fencer from Germany whose four-year term is expiring at the end of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.

Ruggiero will join Anita DeFrantz on the 15-member board.