As International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach began to take questions from the world’s media after announcing the long-awaited decision on Russian participation at Pyeongchang 2018, another intriguing telephone conference was taking place with someone thousands of miles away.

International Fencing Federation (FIE) President Alisher Usmanov has called for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to perform a U-turn and allow Russian athletes to participate under their own flag at Pyeongchang 2018.

A stalemate between Russia and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) looks set to continue after the country's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev categorically insisted today that they will never recognise and apologise for an institutional drug-taking system.

Belarus has become the first country to criticise the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decision to ban Russia from competing under its own flag at Pyeongchang 2018.

Aruba's new International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board member Nicole Hoevertsz will chair a three-person panel charged with finalising rules and regulations for the participation of Russian athletes at Pyeongchang 2018, it has been announced.

I think we can now be clear. After months and months of courageous, assiduous labour by investigators, scientists, lawyers and - lest it be forgotten - journalists, analysis of the evidence enables, as the Schmid Report puts it, "the confirmation of the existence of the Disappearing Positive Methodology as well as a tampering methodology, in particular during the Olympic Winter Games Sochi 2014, as described in the Final Report by Prof. Richard McLaren".

Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised that Russia will not boycott Pyeongchang 2018 even after the decision yesterday by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to force his country's athletes to compete under a neutral flag.

Hosts Ivory Coast were among the four nations to progress through to the men’s semi-finals on the opening day of the 2017 World Taekwondo Team Championships at the Palais de Sports de Treichville in Abidjan.  

They got there in the end.

Grigory Rodchenkov is "proud" of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for ruling that Russian athletes must compete as neutrals at Pyeongchang 2018 but still fears for his life even in witness protection in the United States, his lawyer warned today.

Russian athletes will only be allowed to participate at Pyeongchang 2018 under a neutral flag, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have announced here today following the publication of their Schmid Report into Russian doping.

Russia's delegation will only receive the crucial Schmid Commission report 20 minutes before they present their case during the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board meeting here today, insidethegames understands.

Former Moscow Laboratory director turned whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov is to respond to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decision on Russian participation at Pyeongchang 2018 via his lawyer here tomorrow.

Russia are not currently contemplating a boycott of next year's Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang but the final decision will rest with President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin admitted today.