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

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

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 ...

Russia won’t compete under its flag at the 2026 Winter Olympics—but some Russian athletes will still be there. Here’s how the ...

Nearly four years after Vladimir Putin launched Europe’s deadliest war since World War II, Russia remains banned by the IOC although individual Russians can compete in the Olympics as ...

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

The Russian flag will be flown at a major sporting event next month, the beginning of the nation's apparent rehabilitation on the sporting stage ...

Doyel: The IOC can DQ Vladyslav Heraskevych and his helmet from Olympics – but it can't silence his sacrifice, or his message against Russia's war in Ukraine.

Russia and Belarus were banned from international competition for the last four years as sanction for the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.

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 ...

A Winter Olympian has been banned from wearing an anti-Russia helmet with images of Ukraine war victims. Ukrainian skeleton ...

Of course while Russia remain excluded, they will continue to take the high road, albeit with a fairly transparent sideways glance. The Olympics have “lost their significance as a global competition ...