Prior to Russia's ban from international figure skating, the Russians had won more medals at the world championships than any ...

After Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 with assistance from neighboring Belarus, the Olympic committee under its outgoing president, Thomas Bach, banned Russian and Belarusian athletes from ...

Now, incoming IOC President Kirsty Coventry is indicating that Russia may be allowed to rejoin the next Olympic games. “I am, but I think you have to take each situation into account,” she ...

The Olympic committee banned Moscow from competing as a team in the 2024 Paris Olympics because of the country’s incursion in Ukraine.

International Olympic Committee president Kirsty Coventry says she is against banning countries from Olympics over wars and reveals plans for talks on Russias return; I believe that its best for our m ...

Skaters are competing in Boston at the ISU World Figure Skating Championships amid shifting international perceptions about ...

That player is Russia, the world’s largest country, which was excluded from the Olympics following its invasion of Ukraine and consequent war in 2022. In the wake of longstanding tensions with ...

A World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) report in July 2016 stated that Russia ran a state-sponsored doping program during the 2014 Winter Olympics, while an update to the report five months later ...

BOSTON — The 2025 world figure skating championships at TD Garden this week will feature the best skaters, coaches and judges from every corner of the world − with one notable exception.

For the third consecutive year, Russia will be absent. Since its invasion of Ukraine at the end of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Russia has been largely sidelined from the world of international ...