“Clean” Russian athletes may be allowed to participate in the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, as independent participants. TASS reports this, citing the press service of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). On Tuesday, a meeting of the IOC Executive Committee was held at…
In the first 7 days of competition in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, the US team took a confident lead in the unofficial medal table. The Russian national team, which suffered numerous losses amid the doping scandal, faced not only the absence of a number of medal contenders (the heavy ...
American gymnast Simone Biles became the 2016 Rio Olympic champion in the absolute all-around. The second was another representative of the US national team, Alexandra Raizman, and Russian Aliya Mustafina won the bronze medal. NBC commentator Al Trautwig incurred the ire of the American public by refusing to name ...
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 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 Ukrainian team lost their first match of Euro 2016 to the world champions, the German national team, with a score of 2: 0. Despite the loss, commentators praised the play of the Ukrainians. But the fans of Ukraine made a preliminary agreement on social networks, sang a song about the Russian president using profanity for 25 minutes of the match. ...
In the final match of the qualifying tournament, Russian footballers beat Montenegro with a score of 2: 0 and won a ticket to the 2016 European Championship, which will be held in France. After Leonid Slutsky replaced Fabio Capello as the head coach of the Italian national team, the Russians succeeded ...
The captain of the Russian national team, Ilya Kovalchuk, commented on the situation with the early departure of the national team from the award ceremony after the defeat in the final of the 2015 World Cup: “As the captain of the Russian national team, I will once again emphasize that there was no demarche, the version of which is being inflated on the Internet, -...