At least 25 people were killed in a shootout between suspected drug traffickers and police in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday, one of the state’s deadliest police raids, police said. People targeted in the raid in the poor Jacarezinho …
WADA has admitted that Richard McLaren’s 2016 report on the alleged use of doping by Russian athletes is “not sufficient to bring successful cases,” the International Olympic Committee said. “At …
An Iranian cyclist suffered a fatal heart attack following a crash in the men’s C4/C5 road race at the Rio Paralympics, The Guardian reports. Bahman Golbarnezhad, from Shiraz, was treated at the scene of …
The carrying out of the Russian flag by the representative of the Belarusian Paralympic national team at the athletes parade in Rio was a sign of solidarity with the Russian athletes, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said. …
The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, thanked President Ilham Aliyev for the country's refusal to get licenses to the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, which freed after the removal of the Russian Paralympic competitions. …
The expert about the attack on Paralympians
President of Belarus, President of the National Olympic Committee Alexander Lukashenko has been outraged by what representatives of the International Paralympic Committee did to athletes and members of the Belarusian delegation …
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has banned another member of the Belarusian delegation from the Paralympic Games in Rio, BelTA news agency reported. The agency did not specify his name. Recall that earlier, …
Azerbaijani judoka Bayram Mustafayev (66 kg) has won silver medal in the 15th Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Trend reported. He was defeated by Utkirjon Nigmatov of Uzbekistan in the finals. …
Belarusian athletes carried the Russian flag during the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games to express solidarity with the Russian team, which was banned from the event. The protest went ahead despite a threat of sanctions from officials, RT …
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has dismissed requests from 34 Russian athletes who filed requests to be allowed to take part in the 2016 Paralympic Games in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro, sports lawyer Artyom Patsev …
Switzerland’s highest court has refused to overturn a decision by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to ban Russian athletes from taking part in next month’s Rio Paralympics – meaning Russia has now exhausted its legal …
The head of the Republic of Dagestan, Ramazan Abdulatipov, awarded the men’s freestyle wrestling 86kg category gold medalist, Dagestan’s Abdulrashid Sadulaev, with an Akhal-Teke horse and …
Representatives of the Russian Olympic team, who were not allowed to compete at the Olympic Games in Rio will receive financial compensation, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said. According to him, payments …
Today the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) announced a final decision not to allow the Russian athletes to compete at the Paralympic Games 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, despite the appeal of the Russian side on the decision of the International …
The Azerbaijani national team was called the most efficient for medals per athlete in its Rio 2016 alternate medal table. "When it comes to the size of the teams each country has taken to Rio, Azerbaijan emerges as the most …
Tonight 31st Summer Olympic Games came to an end. For the first time in history of the South American country hosted the event. At the end of the competition, the Russian team was in the fourth place of the medal …
The Russian national team's performance at the Summer Olympic Games can be evaluated as outstanding, a creative producer and the host of Vesti FM, Gia Saralidze, speaking with a correspondent of Vestnik Kavkaza, said, …
The Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro will be remembered for many events, but for Russia and the South Caucasus countries it will go down in history as one of the most difficult and the most successful. Russia, being under an unprecedented …
Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro are coming to an end. On the final day, athletes will compete in boxing, basketball, volleyball, wrestling, handball, mountain-bike, rhythmic gymnastics and athletics. In men's …
