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 ...

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

The International Olympic Committee is leaving open the possibility for the Russian Olympic team to rejoin the games after it was banned from competing in the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics due to the ...

Russia wants to return to the Olympic fold — and thinks the new leader of world sport could make it happen. Kirsty Coventry, a former Zimbabwean swimmer, won the race to be the next president of the ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Russian President Vladimir Putin was quick to send congratulations to the newly elected leader of the International Olympic Committee, Kirsty Coventry, of Zimbabwe, as Moscow ...

Moscow, Mar 21 (EFE).- Russia hopes that Zimbabwean Kirsty Coventry, the newly elected president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), will reverse the ban on Russian athletes imposed by ...

"Moreover, in order to be cleared for the Olympic qualifiers the ISU will inquire into athletes’ possible affiliation with Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine and their possible ...

The incoming IOC president has revealed to Sky News she is against banning countries from the Olympics over wars and will open talks on Russia's potential return to the Games. Only Russians ...

Incoming IOC president Kirsty Coventry has revealed that she will open talks to have Russia reinstated to the Olympics in time for the 2028 Games in Los Angeles. Only Russians competing as ...

Zimbabwe’s Kirsty Coventry was elected president of International Olympic Committee on March 20, 2025. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) Russia hoped for a return from sporting exile on Thursday ...