Every time Nikita Filippov races, it's an uphill struggle. At the Olympics, even more so. The 23-year-old from Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka peninsula is a medal contender in the rugged new Olympic ...

Figure skating is one of the Winter Olympics' signature offerings. No event within its orbit carries more weight than its last — the women's singles. Women's singles has long served a platform for the ...

MILAN (AP) — It's not often that the second figure skater on the ice in a Winter Olympic competition is must-see viewing. Adeliia Petrosian is different. The 18-year-old Russian had only competed in ...

Valieva’s positive doping result from a December test, the bureaucratic laxity that followed, the decision that allowed her ...

Russian athletes at the 2026 Winter Olympics got the short end of the stick. Most athletes competing at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano-Cortina have received a brand-new Samsung smartphone for ...

Vladimir Putin has celebrated figure skater Kamila Valieva and hit out at ‘cynical’ bans on Russian athletes. Russia was ...

MILAN — A high-risk jump, a fall, gasps from the crowd. That's how Russia's domination of Olympic women's figure skating ended. Adeliia Petrosian came to Milan as one of the few leading medal ...

In the days after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) arranged a call involving all of its eclectic membership. The 100 or so IOC members include a ...

Russian athletes competing in the 2026 Winter Paralympics under their own flag for the first time since 2014 have won their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russian athletes competing in the 2026 Paralympic Winter Games under their own flag for the first time since 2014 have won their ...

Russia’s national anthem rang out at the Paralympics for the first time in more than a decade after Para alpine skier Varvara ...

Anastasia Kucherova, a Russian living in Milan, voiced her opposition to the Russia-Ukraine war with a highly symbolic, if anonymous, act: carrying the Ukraine team placard during the Opening Ceremony ...