Russia is back in love with the Games and a return to athletes competing under their own flag at LA in two years’ time seems highly likely ...

As the Winter Olympics prepared for their grand opening in Milan two weeks ago, the new president of the International ...

Every time Nikita Filippov races, it's an uphill struggle. At the Olympics, even more so. The 23-year-old from Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka peninsula is a medal contender in the rugged new Olympic ...

Russia officially is banned from the 2026 Winter Olympics, but 13 athletes have qualified to compete as "neutral'' athletes.

Some Russians have dismissed the Games over the continued exclusion of their athletes. But the truth is international sport is still important to Moscow ...

Thirteen athletes from Russia will compete in Italy, but they will do so without flags, anthems or a place in the medal standings.

Russia’s absence from the men’s ice hockey tournament puts an asterisk on these games, whether we like it or not.

At the 1980 Winter Games in Lake Placid, New York, that superpower rivalry was on full display on the ice. The U.S. men’s ice hockey team — made up largely of college players and amateurs — faced off ...

THE IOC have “begged” Vladyslav Heraskevych not to wear his ‘helmet of memory’ in skeleton competition – otherwise he could ...

A Ukrainian athlete has been kicked out of the Winter Olympics for wearing a helmet commemorating compatriots killed in ...