A court in Sochi in Russia has sentenced human rights defender Semyon Simonov - most notable for documenting migrant worker exploitation during construction of Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics and 2018 FIFA World Cup venues - to community service under the "foreign agents" law.
The International Testing Agency (ITA) has announced it will conduct further reanalysis of samples from the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, with all nationalities targeted and an aim of completing the process before Beijing 2022.
Lawyers representing biathletes Olga Zaisteva, Olga Vilukhina and Yana Romanova have said criminal complaints have been lodged with the Swiss prosecutors office over alleged fake signatures by whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has overturned the life bans given to Russian biathletes Olga Vilukhina, Yana Romanova and Olga Zaitseva.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko has won his appeal against a lifetime ban from the Olympic Games issued by the International OIympic Committee (IOC) for his involvement in the state-sponsored doping scheme.
British Olympic Association chairman Sir Hugh Robertson has hailed the news that the country's four-man bobsleigh have been upgraded to the bronze medal at Sochi 2014 following the disqualification of Russia for doping but is angry it has taken so long to resolve.
The family of the late Steven Holcomb are set to receive two Olympic silver medals after the results of the two and four-man bobsleigh results from Sochi 2014 were officially amended and the United States moved up a position in both events, it was announced here today.
The Kremlin has repeated its insistence that the 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games were the "best ever", despite the doping scheme which corrupted the event in the Russian city.
Reasoned decisions outlining why the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) overturned sanctions against Russian athletes banned by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will be made public later this month.
Russia's former bobsledder Alexander Zubkov is obliged to return his two Olympic gold medals from Sochi 2014 after a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruling but told Russia's official state news agency TASS he will only do so if he receives a personal letter from the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Alexander Zubkov is set to be re-elected President of the Russian Bobsleigh Federation (RBF) tomorrow after his two challengers withdrew from the race after claiming the election was "illegal".
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has filed an appeal against the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) decision to overturn the sanction given to Russian cross-country skier Alexander Legkov at the Swiss Federal Tribunal.
Russian Bobsleigh Federation (RBF) President Alexander Zubkov has confirmed he will not appeal the decision to strip him of the two Olympic gold medals he won at Sochi 2014 for his role in the country's doping scheme.
Russian cross-country skier Alexander Legkov's sanction for his role in the country's doping scheme was overturned as the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) were unable to prove any of the "factual allegations" made by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), it was revealed today.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has confirmed that Russian bobsledder Maxim Belugin was banned following the retesting of his samples from Sochi 2014.
Denver were awarded the 1976 Winter Olympic Games ahead of Sion in Switzerland, Tempere in Finland and Vancouver in Canada at the International Olympic Committee Session in 1970. But in a Colorado referendum in November 1972, voters rejected funding for the event. It is the only time a city has been awarded the Olympics but pulled out. The IOC then offered the Games to Whistler in Canada, but they too declined owing to a change of Government following elections. Salt Lake City offered to host the Games, but the IOC, still reeling from the Denver rejection, declined and selected Innsbruck, the 1964 host city, as a replacement.
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