MOSCOW, April 8. /TASS/. Russia’s Olympic Champion in weightlifting Viktor Kurentsov died on Thursday at the age of 80. "Viktor Kurentsov has passed away," Andrei Ivanov, head of the Odintsovo ...

The Olympic committee originally banned all ... Despite reports that nine out of Russia ten weightlifters initially accepted the invitation, whilst one of the Judo athletes has originally accepted ...

This ruling specifically excluded Belarus from the August 2024 qualifiers for the 2026 Olympics in Italy. In October 2023, the IIHF stated that if Russia were permitted to participate in the 2026 ...

Ruslan Albegov, the 2012 Olympics bronze medalist and two-time ... to obtain the lift of provisional suspensions imposed on Russian weightlifters Ruslan Albegov and Oleg Chen, accused of anti ...

Russian teams won’t officially be called Russian teams at next year’s Tokyo Olympics or the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing, but “Russia” will be printed on their red, white and blue uniforms.

That shouldn’t be a problem, since the team has the extra motivation of playing in front of friendly fans at the first Winter Olympics to be hosted by Russia. If Ovechkin, Datsyuk and Kovalchuk ...

Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Weightlifting - Women's 76kg - Medal Ceremony - Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan - August 1, 2021. Bronze medalist Aremi Fuentes of Mexico reacts. REUTERS/Edgard ...

Russian medalists at the recently concluded Sochi Winter Olympics are being rewarded quite handsomely for their service to the Motherland. In addition to the $120,000 being handed out for each ...

Russia by any other name is just as successful at the Olympics. The rebranded team--known at the Tokyo Games as ROC, short for Russian Olympic Committee--easily beat its medal target by surpassing ...

Russian commentators have personally attacked IOC president Thomas Bach, says the IOC Olympic president Thomas Bach has been targeted by hoax phone calls from a Russian group pretending to be the ...