The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has suspended Russian weightlifters from participating in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The reason for this verdict was numerous cases of violation of anti-doping rules. “The reputation of weightlifting as a sport has been seriously damaged many times and on many levels by the actions of...
The Russian national team continues to lose athletes ahead of the 5 Olympics starting on August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro. The International Cycling Union (UCI) allowed only 11 of the 17 declared riders of the Russian national team to participate in the Games, the organization's press service said. Cyclists Olga Zabelinskaya, Ilnur Zakarin and Sergey Shilov were ...
Seven representatives of the Russian national swimming team will not be able to take part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, including the main star of the team, four-time world champion Yulia Efimova. According to the International Swimming Federation (FINA), they do not meet the conditions for admission to competitions that ...
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) recommends that all athletes from Russia be barred from the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Such a decision was published on the agency's website following the announcement of a report by the WADA independent commission, which found evidence of doping ...
On Wednesday, it was decided to take away two quotas from Russia for participation in weightlifting competitions: the men's team lost one place and the women's team lost one. In addition, the national teams of Kazakhstan, Moldova, Azerbaijan and North Korea suffered similar punishment. One by one…
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 International Olympic Committee (IOC) did not suspend the Russian national team from participating in the 2016 Summer Olympics. The team was threatened with disqualification due to the use of doping in Russian sports. At the same time, IOC President Thomas Bach expressed serious doubts about the presumption of innocence of athletes from Russia, as well as from Kenya. Every Russian and Kenyan athlete ...
Baseball has become one of five sports to be included in the Summer Olympics in 2020, when it will be held in Tokyo, Japan. Baseball players last participated in the 2008 Olympics, when the Games were hosted by Beijing. Total competition in ...
Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina was unable to reach the quarterfinals of the 2016 French Open, losing to world ranking leader Serena Williams. The American confidently won in two sets with a score of 6: 1, 6: 1. Thus, the best tennis player of Ukraine did not manage to repeat her last year ...
Yuri Gelman is a fencing coach. Born in Kyiv, graduated from the Institute of Physical Education, immigrated to the USA in 1991. Senior men's saber coach at the Olympics in Sydney, Athens, Beijing and London. This year he plans to go with his students to Rio de Janeiro. Opened...