India were crowned freestyle champions at the World Cadet Wrestling Championships for the very first time today, with the United States and Russia rounding out the top three.
A further 20 Russians have been granted permission by the World Athletics Doping Review Board to compete as Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA) in international competitions in 2021.
Uzbekistan’s 15-year-old Javokhir Sindarov, seeded 121st, produced the shock of the second round today at the Vakhidov International Chess Federation (FIDE) World Cup in Sochi as he knocked out France’s eighth-seeded Alireza Firouzja.
Russia claimed the gold medal in the group category and the individual all-around at the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) Rhythmic Gymnastics World Challenge Cup in Moscow in Russia.
Athletes will be able to wear uniform featuring the colour logo of the Russian Biathlon Union (RBU) at major events after the organisation reached a settlement with the International Biathlon Union (IBU).
Russian high jumper Danil Lysenko has had a six-year ban confirmed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), with two years suspended due to assistance provided by the athlete in cases against former Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) officials.
The Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) has announced a list of 10 track and field athletes who are set to compete as neutrals at the delayed Olympic Games in Tokyo.
World champion Yulia Karimova led a Russian one-two in the women's 50 metres rifle three positions event at the International Shooting Sport Federation World Cup in Osijek in Croatia.
Co-hosts France and Serbia will meet in the final of the International Basketball Federation Women's EuroBasket tournament.
World Championships silver medallist Tammaro Cassandro of Italy claimed the men's skeet honours at the International Shooting Sport Federation World Cup in Osijek.
Russia missed out on qualifying for the last four of the men’s Volleyball Nations League by the narrowest of margins after the final day of preliminary round matches.
In what has been described as a "genuinely exceptional" case, Russia's former world 110 metres hurdles champion Sergey Shubenkov has been cleared of any wrongdoing after an adverse finding reported in December.
France and Russia's women, and Ireland's men, claimed the three available places in the rugby sevens tournaments at Tokyo 2020 at the Olympic repechage tournament in Monaco.
The Federation of International Bandy (FIB) has announced its upcoming World Championships will take place in Russia, after the events were approved as exceptions to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) sanctions.
Italy became the first side to reach the last 16 of the UEFA European Championships with another 3-0 win over Switzerland in Group A at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome tonight.
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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