Will the Entire Russian Olympic Team Be Banned from Rio?The International Olympic Committee is expected to announce bySunday whether it will ban Russian...Iaconangelo, David
Russian Olympic team has been banned from 2018 Winter Games! WOW! Does this sound like a fair action or one politically motivated to damage Russia standing in the World court of opinion? Specially given the fact that World Cup is going to be in Russia in 2018 which is by far the ...
the International Weightlifting Federation, three executive committee members stood by their principles and voted to permit Russian heavy weightlifters Oleg Chen and David Bedzhanyan to compete in the Olympic Games,” he stated, adding that 14 out of 17 members had voted for Russia to be banned....
Russia has been accused of running a state-backed, systematic doping programme for years, an allegation Moscow denies. As a result, its athletes are competing at Pyeongchang as neutral "Olympic Athletes from Russia" (OAR), and banned from using their national flag or anthem. Moiseeva said it ...
Why is Russia banned from the Olympics? Olympic athletes from Russia have faced a series of scandals and challenges in recent years. While previous bans and suspensions had to do with doping scandals, Russia was most recently suspended by the International Olympic Committee for its invasion of Ukr...
SEE ALSO: Meet the team of refugees set to compete at the Rio Olympics IOC President Thomas Bach convened a special Olympic summit to follow up on the IAAF's decision to maintain its ban on Russia's track team for the games and to take additional steps to ensure a "level playing fiel...
Around 70 athletes from Russia’s Olympic team touched down in Brazil on Friday ahead of next month’s games, which start in Rio on August 5. However, hours earlier, the IAAF rejected an appeal from world pole vault record holder Yelena Isinbayeva to compete. Russia’s national team was ...
Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva received a four-year doping ban on Monday, effectively stripping the Russian Olympic Committee of its gold medal in the team event at the 2022 Beijing Winter Games nearly two years after the competition....
The International Olympic Committee banned the Russian team in PyeongChang due to the doping scandal but allowed Russian athletes who tested negative to compete in uniforms bearing the title "Olympic Athlete from Russia."
BEIJING--Kamila Valieva, the 15-year-old Russian superstar who was expected to deliver her nation its third straight Olympic gold medal in women’s figure skating, tested positive for a banned heart medication before the Beijing Games, the Russian newspa