Sports Editor Dan Roan analyses Russia's controversial return to global sporting action at the Winter Paralympics and what it might mean for other sports.

Russia and Belarus are banned from the Olympics because of their involvement in the war in Ukraine.

World Athletics, suspended RusAF’s membership in November 2015, following a wave of anti-doping rules violations and formed a special mission on the issue MOSCOW, July 15. /TASS/. The All-Russia ...

The IAAF Council ruled to uphold the suspension despite Russian President Vladimir Putin having recently approved a law criminalising doping in sports. The IAAF Council, under the presidency of ...

Russian athletics authorities are investigating claims of mass doping after Russia came off particularly badly in allegations of a major scandal in world athletics published in the Sunday Times ...

The deadline was set as July 1, otherwise Russian athletes would be denied permits for their neutral-status participation in international tournaments, according to the World Athletics Council ruling ...

Russia said Thursday it has withdrawn its world-beating team of race-walkers from all international competitions to avoid ''disgrace'' in the wake of a series of doping allegations. Head coach Viktor ...

The former head coach of the Russian Athletics Federation (VFLA) has slammed accusations of doping among Russian athletes. The two media organisations claim they have test results from around 5,000 ...

MOSCOW (AP) Former Olympic 800-meter champion Yuri Borzakovsky has been hired permanently as Russia's new top athletics coach, tasked with rebuilding a team badly hit by doping scandals. The ...

The Russian Embassy in Kenya has announced that the country is planning to send a group of athletes to Kenya for high-altitude training in 2026. The move, coordinated by the Russian Athletics ...

While athletes compete under their nation’s respective flags, that won’t be the case for those hailing from Russia.