By Elvira Pollina and Valentina Za MILAN, Feb 19 (Reuters) - After shaking up the field with a short programme that lifted her from obscurity into fifth place, neutral athlete Adeliia Petrosian missed ...
Some Russians have dismissed the Games over the continued exclusion of their athletes. But the truth is international sport is still important to Moscow ...
While history has softened the harsh view of Jimmy Carter’s presidency, there is one part of his legacy that looks worse as the years pass. Carter, who died Sunday in Plains, Georgia, at the age of ...
One of the greatest gymnasts in Olympic history has sadly passed away this month. It was announced this Tuesday that Russian gymnast Alexander Dityatin has died. He competed in the 1976 Montreal ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian illustrator who designed Misha, the mascot of the 1980 Moscow Olympics that were boycotted by a slew of countries, died on Monday aged 84, a publisher of children's ...
Twenty athletes from Russia and Belarus are competing at the Winter Olympics as neutral. Moscow has asked for its athletes to be fully reinstated in international competition, and sporting bodies are ...
Russia and its ally Belarus will compete under their own flags at next month’s Paralympics following a yearslong ban. Both ...