Mariya is not in Paris defending her Olympic high jump title. Team Russia is barred from these Games because of the war in Ukraine. A World Athletics ruling means that track and field stars from ...

Military experts do not rule out that Russia was behind this sabotage. The sabotage, just before the start of the Paris Olympics, could be the work of groups affiliated with or inspired by Moscow ...

Disinformation groups linked to Russia have increased their activity in the run-up to the Paris Olympics in order to tarnish the reputation of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and spread ...

There are 206 National Olympic Committees in the 2024 Summer Olympics. Russia and Belarus are absent from the list of ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says that allowing Russia to compete at the 2024 Olympics in Paris would amount to showing that "terror is somehow acceptable ...

But Russia's invasion of Ukraine three weeks ago exposed its irreconcilable claims of “political neutrality.” The IOC’s politics were evident at Hitler’s 1936 Olympics. During the Cold War ...

Russia will be asked to observe a ceasefire in Ukraine during the Paris Olympics, French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview from Paris shown on Ukrainian television on Saturday (16 March).