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

The Olympic committee banned ... onslaught against Ukraine. (The Russian national team had been suspended from previous international competitions due to a doping scandal.) Russian athletes ...

For the third consecutive year, Russia will be absent. Since its invasion of Ukraine at the end of the 2022 Winter Olympics ... been particularly dominant in women's singles, with five of the ...

Kirsty Coventry hopes her election as the first female ... exile. Russian athletes have not competed at the Olympics under their own flag since 2016, following the state-run doping scandal and ...

I think what is pretty clear is that the athletes and the women members ... reform of the World Anti Doping Agency. Also how do you reintegrate Russia back into the Olympic movement, they ...

“I am particularly proud to be the first female IOC president ... World Athletics banned all Russian athletes from the Rio 2016 Olympics for state-sponsored doping. Coventry’s victory came ...

"Coventry is the first female ... is Olympic's largest sport. "It's an organisation which he will argue has led the way on how to deal with Russia with regards to state-sponsored doping and ...

But when Russian star Kamila Valieva was disqualified for a doping violation after ... has stood atop the podium in the women's event for the past three Olympics. And in pairs, Russians have ...

Bach, who won an Olympic ... after a row over women’s boxing blew up during last summer’s Paris games. Russia’s potential return to Olympic competitions after bans for doping violations ...

You probably haven’t heard of Adeliia Petrosian but from Volgograd to Vladivostok she’s renowned as the Motherland’s reigning ice queen. Petrosian, a 17-year-old Muscovite who’s barely ...