Russian boxing coach Anton Kadushin has reportedly tested positive for coronavirus after travelling home from the Tokyo 2020 European boxing qualifier in London.
Vladimir Drachev is facing calls to resign as President of the Russian Biathlon Union (RBU) after a group of athletes and officials urged him to step down before his term ends next year.
Hearings in Russia's case against the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) could begin in July, according to CAS secretary general Matthieu Reeb.
Two Olympic champions are among four Russian athletes who have been charged with doping offences by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU).
Russia's two-time Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast Svetlana Khorkina has made the controversial claim that the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games is God's punishment for the sports community and the world in general for the removal of the country from leading international competitions.
Three Russian cyclists have failed in a legal bid to claim damages from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and Richard McLaren after they were banned from competing at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
The Russian Ministry of Sport has cancelled all international events scheduled to take place in the country until further notice because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Russia Athletics Federation (RusAF) will once again be the focus on the World Athletics Council at their latest meeting here in Monaco, following the organisation’s Extraordinary Conference and ongoing uncertainty over their athletes’ potential participation at this year's Olympic Games in Tokyo.
Russia and Canada will contest the gold medal game at the World Wheelchair Curling Championships in Switzerland, after both countries won two knockout matches today.
Russia and the United States aim to dominate the International Skating Union (ISU) World Junior Figure Skating Championships in Tallinn.
Russian gymnasts have withdrawn from upcoming World Cup events in the United States and Japan because of the coronavirus outbreak.
Canada and Russia shared the first four gold medals of the Diving World Series season as the new campaign opened in Montreal.
A request from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to hold the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) hearing in the protracted Russian doping case in public has been rejected because of an "absence of an agreement between all parties concerned".
Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin has vowed to do "everything necessary" to protect the interests of Alexander Loginov after he was the subject of an anti-doping raid by Italian police during the Biathlon World Championships.
Russia took gold by a huge distance in the men's synchronised 10 metres platform on day two of the International Swimming Federation (FINA) Diving Grand Prix at the Internationaler Springertag Rostock in Germany.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
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