Russian athletes could escape being thrown out of the Paralympics after it emerged the Ukraine invasion may not have breached the movement’s rules. The International Paralympic Committee…

Normally steely-eyed and focused, her emotions came out on the podium, the tears flowing as the Union flag was raised. There were five British women on the…

The men’s 50km mass start race at the Beijing Games was shortened to 30km but that did little to help Finland’s Remi Lindholm, who needed a heat…

Indeed, the starkest abrogation by the International Olympic Committee has been to let the Chinese Communist Party launder its image on the world stage. Such a pact…

Kenworthy was not the only one to suffer with numerous skiers hitting the deck and crashing down as wind tunnelled up the pipe and buffeted them as…

Gu is cultured and cosmopolitan, speaking both English and Chinese fluently. Ultimately she did not ask for her privileged upbringing. Her education, including tutoring in Beijing’s affluent…

Ultimately, the IOC did nothing to protect Valieva. It left her in the clutches of a Russian system that had repeatedly doped and brutalised athletes to Olympic…

In short, this takes the average distance across the round robin of the Last Stone Draws (LSD) – a pre-match contest where each team delivers two stones…

The International Olympic Committee’s insistence on the Games remaining politically neutral was made a mockery of on Thursday when a Beijing official said Taiwan and Xinjiang reports…

Bobby Lammie, who has spent most of his career playing alongside Mouat, makes up the playing quartet with alternate Ross Whyte also due a medal under Olympic…

Asked by a Russian journalist whether the IOC should still take some responsibility for the emotional pressure placed on Valieva as a result of the global attention,…

Kamila Valieva has been a pawn in a game of political chess. For that, she deserved sympathy, even before the sad scenes on the ice. But let’s…

The last time Great Britain finished a Winter Olympics medalless was at the 1992 Games in Albertville, also the last time both a summer and winter Games…

Watching Kamila Valieva weep through her routine at the Winter Olympics earlier this week, the solution to her anguish was glaringly obvious. She should not have been…

Hauled into Covid isolation for two weeks and then the chance of Olympic gold thrown away by skiing the wrong way – it’s fair to say Norway’s…

It certainly was exciting to the casual viewer watching back home as the devilish turn 13 at the Yanqing Sliding Centre – the same corner that has…

Kamila Valieva was cleared to continue competing at the Beijing Winter Olympics despite a failed drugs test following a Court of Arbitration for Sport judgement.  The Russian…

Kim Yu Na, the 2010 Olympic figure skating gold medallist, posted a black square on her Instagram account with the words: “Athlete who violates doping cannot compete…

Any time the IOC confronts an issue of this diplomatic magnitude mid-Games, it sees to it that it becomes somebody else’s problem. Adams reiterated on Monday that…

The World Anti-Doping Agency has been approached for comment, while earlier on Tuesday the IOC said that Valieva’s ‘B’ sample was yet to be analysed despite the…

Despite thousands of staff taking to the course from 5am to try and clear the snowfall and preserve the twice shaped freestyle surface, the competition, which had…

While her immediate future in Beijing is resolved, Wada has already said it is going to investigate the youngster’s entourage, which it said included coaches, doctors and…

Benjamin Alexander is Jamaica’s first Olympic competitor in Alpine skiing. He took his initial ski lesson six years ago, aged 32, and lines up for the Giant…

“A very controversial and difficult situation has arisen,” she said. “Lots of questions and very few answers. I want to say that I am absolutely sure that…