Ukraine's Paralympians have accused the International Paralympic Committee of unfair treatment as the Russian team competes under its own flag at the games for the first time since 2014.
Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych was disqualified at the 2026 Winter Olympics after refusing to remove a helmet honoring athletes killed in Russia's…
Winter Olympics organizers barred Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych from competing in the Milan Cortino games after he insisted on wearing a helmet…
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A building where meetings were held, constructed in the 1950s, was eventually torn down and replaced by a building that went up ahead of the 2014 Sochi Winter…
The region saw a flood of money and investment before Russia hosted the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.
After 10 years in prison, he was freed and flown out of Russia following a pardon from Putin that was widely seen as PR ahead of the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
He served as the Kremlin’s point man organizing the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, which Kremlin saw as a sign of Russia’s rightful return to the world stage.
He later spoke of the importance of what he called "platforms free from discrimination or the imposition of modern reinterpretations," pointedly referencing the…
She said that she was "not a member of any political party nor am I allied with any leader of Russia," that she had met Putin "only a handful of…
