For the first time in 12 years, since they hosted the 2014 Sochi Games, Russian (and Belarusian) athletes are at an Olympics ...

World Athletics, suspended RusAF’s membership in November 2015, following a wave of anti-doping rules violations and formed a special mission on the issue MOSCOW, July 15. /TASS/. The All-Russia ...

"Obviously, everything possible needed to defend the rights of our athletes and the Olympic team is being done and will be done at a legal level," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in ...

The IAAF Council ruled to uphold the suspension despite Russian President Vladimir Putin having recently approved a law criminalising doping in sports. The IAAF Council, under the presidency of ...

Varvara Voronchikhina, one of six Russian athletes competing at the 2026 Games, took victory in the women's standing super-G.

Russian athletics authorities are investigating claims of mass doping after Russia came off particularly badly in allegations of a major scandal in world athletics published in the Sunday Times ...

MOSCOW (AP) Former Olympic 800-meter champion Yuri Borzakovsky has been hired permanently as Russia's new top athletics coach, tasked with rebuilding a team badly hit by doping scandals. The ...

The Russian Embassy in Kenya has announced that the country is planning to send a group of athletes to Kenya for high-altitude training in 2026. The move, coordinated by the Russian Athletics ...

Aleksei Bugaev won bronze Saturday in the standing men's downhill, one of two para Alpine skiing medals Russia claimed on the first day of its return to Paralympic competition. Linnea Rheborg / Getty ...