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Russia's 542 total medals, including 193 gold medals, are second behind only the United States in that timespan. In 2017, Russia was suspended from competing at the Olympic Games due to the state-sponsored doping scandal. Russian athletes were allowed to participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics as the Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR).
Thomas Bach OLY [2] (born 29 December 1953) is a German lawyer, former foil fencer, and Olympic gold medalist. He has served as the ninth and current president of the International Olympic Committee since 2013, the first ever Olympic champion to be elected to that position. Bach is also a former German individual foil champion, and former ...
As at the 2018 Winter Olympics, WADA would allow individual cleared Russian athletes to compete neutrally under a title to be determined (which may not include the name "Russia", unlike the use of "Olympic Athletes from Russia" in 2018). [2] Russia later filed an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against the WADA decision. [3]
Jordan Chiles’ bronze medal win at the Paris Olympics was overturned and instead awarded to Romania’s Ana Bǎrbosu. (Cao Can/Xinhua via Getty Images) (Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images)
The fight over Jordan Chiles' bronze medal is not over yet. Chiles' attorneys announced Monday that they have filed a formal appeal with the Swiss Federal Tribunal over the results in the women's ...
By decision of the Constituent Assembly on 1 December 1989, the All-Russian Olympic Committee was established as an independent public organization within the Soviet Olympic Committee. On 13 August 1992, it was officially named the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC). Full and final recognition of the ROC as the legal successor of the Soviet ...
Belarus (1996–2020) Individual Neutral Athletes[a] is the name used to represent approved individual Russian and Belarusian athletes at the 2024 Summer Olympics, after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) banned those nations' previous designations due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 that is still ongoing as of 2024.
Dmitry Medvedev. Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev[a][b] (born 14 September 1965) is a Russian politician who has been serving as deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia since 2020. [2] Medvedev was also president of Russia between 2008 and 2012 and prime minister of Russia between 2012 and 2020. [3]