Every time Nikita Filippov races, it's an uphill struggle. At the Olympics, even more so. The 23-year-old from Russia’s far ...
Thirteen athletes from Russia will compete in Italy, but they will do so without flags, anthems or a place in the medal ...
A Ukrainian athlete has been kicked out of the Winter Olympics for wearing a helmet commemorating compatriots killed in Vladimir Putin’s illegal war on his country. Skeleton racer Vladyslav ...
There are athletes with Russian and Belarussian passports competing at the Olympics as "Individual Neutral Athletes," if they meet some conditions.
BBC Sport finds evidence raising questions over the neutral eligibility of four Russian athletes.
THE IOC have “begged” Vladyslav Heraskevych not to wear his ‘helmet of memory’ in skeleton competition – otherwise he could be booted out of the Olympics. Heraskevych, the Ukrainian flag bearer at ...
Some Russians have dismissed the Games over the continued exclusion of their athletes. But the truth is international sport is still important to Moscow ...
Russia’s absence from the men’s ice hockey tournament puts an asterisk on these games, whether we like it or not.
A Winter Olympian has been banned from wearing an anti-Russia helmet with images of Ukraine war victims. Ukrainian skeleton ...
After a chaotic winter, a handful of Russian and Belarusian athletes were allowed pathways to qualify for Milan Cortina.
As Vladimir Putin's forces keep up their bombardment of Ukraine - with a "massive" strike on Kyiv overnight - one Ukrainian athlete wanted to make a statement at the Winter Olympics, but has now been ...
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 ...