Last night, at the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, perhaps the most anticipated sports show of this year took place - the opening ceremony of the XXXI Summer Olympic Games. All the brightest moments of the Olympic holiday are in the ForumDaily material. Despite a series of high-profile scandals that preceded the opening, ...
American basketball player Kevin Durant will be the highest paid athlete at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Durant tops the list compiled by Forbes magazine. Behind him were tennis players Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal, as well as footballer Neymar. The Summer Olympics in Brazil will be attended by ...
American fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad is one of the main contenders for the gold medal in the saber tournament. In 2014 in Kazan she became the world champion in team competitions. However, the 30-year-old athlete will go down in history even before the end of the competition in Rio -...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...