The verdict from the IOC summit in Russia was expected practically without any hope, believing only that "at least" representatives of other sports would be able to go to the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Almost immediately after the council of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) adopted ...
The Russian Olympic Committee confirmed receipt of documents from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) notifying that 2008 Russian athletes tested positive for doping samples taken during the 14 Beijing Olympic Games. Now Russia, as the president had previously warned ...
Russian tennis player Daniil Medvedev was disqualified for racism at the American Challenger Series in Savannah, Georgia. The second round match between Medvedev and American Donald Young was stopped with the score 4: 1 in favor of the American. In the fifth game, the 20-year-old Russian ...
Former fifth racket of the world, Russian tennis player Anna Chakvetadze, in an exclusive interview with ForumDaily, spoke about how a loud doping scandal threatens her ex-partner in the Russian national team Maria Sharapova. As ForumDaily reported on Monday, the highest paid woman in the world of sports admitted at a press conference in ...
Georgian chess champion Gayoz Nigalidze was disqualified at a tournament in Dubai for checking the moves in a game with an application on a smartphone. As stated in the message on the official website of the tournament, during the game against the Armenian grandmaster Tigran Petrosyan Nigalidze, ...