A blade in hand, chain mail, a cool head and quick reflexes are essential attributes of those who practice fencing at the ...

Ilona Markova is attempting to become the first Russian to play in the PWHL. For now she's learning a new city and culture ...

The World Cup and the Summer Games are rare globally shared cultural moments with potential for unifying people. FIFA ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, August 19 /TASS/. Russian women have won the Olympic synchronized swimming gold in team competitions in Rio. Vlada Chigiryova, Natalya Ishchenko, Svetlana Kolesnichenko ...

Bobsledder Alexander Zubkov is the flagbearer of the Russian Olympic team. 21:20 The Japanese team is now on stage. Athletes have two flags in their hands – Japanese and Russian. 21:13 Ukraine ...

Moscow (AFP) – Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva ... Valieva failed a doping test prior to the 2022 Winter Olympics where she won team gold aged 15, testing positive for the heart medication ...

Public silence from the Olympic committee, while soccer governing-body chief Gianni Infantino offered congratulations even ...

Seb Coe also promises he will introduce “clear-cut” policy to protect female sport if elected president of IOC.

Russia (but not its athletes) remained banned from the next three Olympics. As the IOC warred ... tested twice over the course of a year, after team doctors from various boxing federations had ...

were top medal contenders at Summer and Winter Olympics for decades. Russia, however, was banned from competing as a team at the 2024 Paris Games because of the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine.