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A bid by Los Angeles to host the 2024 Olympic Games could fall victim to anti-American sentiment brewing inside the International Olympic Committee, sources inside the IOC said. The bid, which is competing against three European cities, …
Russian athletes, who could be banned from the Olympic Games in Rio because of the doping scandal, are not responsible for the actions of dishonest government officials and should not suffer because of other people's actions, the head of the …
Russia could cease financing the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) unless it restores the rights of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency, the Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said. "My belief is that if our …
The Russian Paralympic Committee guarantees the 'purity' of the athletes who will take part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro
Russia’s two-time Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva wrote in Instagram that she may travel to the Olympic Games in Rio as a candidate to the IOC Athletes’ Commission on August 14. "Today I …
The head of the RPC commented on the situation around the Russian Paralympic Team
President of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) Alexander Zhukov informed that the decision on the participation of athletes, listed in the ROC's application, at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro will made no later than …
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will make a proposal on the formation of a new, more transparent and independent anti-doping system, the head of Committee Thomas Bach informed. "We need a full review of …
Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko says the country’s sport bodies will be soon reorganized following a series of doping scandals in Russian sports which have led to most of the country’s track and field team being …
Ministry of Health of Russia should be the only institution that deals with anti-doping policy
The Kremlin welcomes the decision made by the International Olympic Committee to allow doping-clean Russian athletes to take part in the 2016 Summer Games, the Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. …
Regardless of whether Russian athletes deserve to be punished, the games will be less entertaining and less fulfilling if they are not in Rio, such opinion was expressed in the article, wrote by The Wall Street Journal …
Doping scandals have become the manifestation of unfair competition on the international scene, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a forum titled 'Territory of Meanings on the Klyazma'. "Aside from normal …
The campaign against Russian athletes strikes a blow on the Olympic movement and is a crime against sports, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday, TASS reports. "What is now …
The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) has postponed indefinitely the national Olympic team’s farewell ceremony for 2016 Summer Games in Brazil from July 22, the head of the Russian Rio 2016 Olympic delegation, Igor Kazikov, …
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rejected the Russian Olympic Committee’s appeal against the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). Russian athletes will not be able to compete at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de …
Boycotting the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games amid the ongoing doping scandal is not on Russian agenda, the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. "No, there is no such topic on the agenda. I want to refer you to …
The International Olympic Committee said on Tuesday it will study "legal options" before deciding whether to ban Russia from the Rio Games over its state-run doping programme. But Russia's Sports Minister Vitaly …
Russia's participation in the Rio Olympics is hanging in the balance after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said it would "explore legal options" for banning the country from the Games. At an emergency IOC …
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the US Secretary of State John Kerry discussed ways to resolve the Syria crisis and Russia's doping scandal in a phone call on Tuesday, the Russian Foreign Ministry …
