Some individual athletes from the banned countries will be permitted to participate in the Milano Cortina Winter Games

Russian athletes at Milan Cortina were reportedly denied Samsung's Olympic Edition phone given to all other athletes competing under a nation during the 2026 Winter Olympics

The nation was banned from participating in the 2018 Pyeongchang Games after a state-sponsored doping scandal connected to the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi was uncovered. As a result of the ban, athletes competed under the term "Olympic Athletes from Russia" in 2018.

A surprise figure skater has entered medal contention in the Olympic women’s competition. And a controversial one at that. Russian Adeliia Petrosian, 18, skating as a

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 sport of ski mountaineering.

Thirteen athletes from Russia will compete in Italy, but they will do so without flags, anthems or a place in the medal standings.

by Gregg Goldstein Amidst all the chaos and destruction since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, one important part of the picture is often overlooked: some 900,000 exiles who left Russia to avoid prison or being drafted into a war that’s created hundreds of thousands of casualties.

MILAN (AP) — Anastasia Kucherova, a Russian living in Milan, voiced her opposition to Russia’s war against Ukraine with a highly symbolic, if at first anonymous, act: Carrying the Ukraine team placard during the opening ceremony of the Milan Cortina Winter Games.