MOSCOW — Former Olympic pole vault champion and current International Olympic Committee member Yelena Isinbayeva has called on the IAAF to lift Russia’s ban from international track and field in time for the world championships next month. Russia has been suspended since 2015 over widespread doping, though the IAAF allows…
Sergey Bubka dominated pole vault for over a decade — in the European Championships (Outdoor and Indoor), the World Championships and World Indoor, won the Olympic gold medal in Seoul in 1988 and broke the world record 35 times. He represented the Soviet Union, until its dissolution in 1991, and then…
MOSCOW, February 14. /TASS/. Russia’s two-time Olympic champion and an official with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Yelena Isinbayeva gave birth to her second child, athlete’s former coach Yevgeny Trofimov told TASS on Wednesday. “Yelena gave birth to a boy,” Trofimov said. “She delivered her son on February 13 in…
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin won’t boycott the Pyeongchang Olympics. Putin said Wednesday his government will allow Russians to compete as neutral athletes at the upcoming games in South Korea. The International Olympic Committee has banned the Russian team from games as punishment for doping violations at the…
ZHUKOVSKY, Russia Long jumper Ekaterina Koneva says she’ll cry. World hurdles champion Sergei Shubenkov says he’ll drown his sorrows. A day before a sports court rules on Russia’s appeal against the ban on its track and field team from the Olympics, star Russian athletes at a meet near Moscow pondered…
NBCUniversal hopes to use its annual broadcasts of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and National Dog Show to draw more attention to a program that will not see the light of day until well into next year. The company’s NBC broadcast network will feature a 60-second promo on Thanksgiving Day…
The threat of keeping Russia from competing at Rio 2016 is working But Thomas Bach and his fellow Olympic heads need to do more Bach is the president of the International Olympic Committee Other Olympic bosses have been following Bach’s dismal lead Forget Russia for a minute. Maybe it is…
Ukrainian pole vault legend Sergei Bubka has set out his stall to become the International Olympic Committee’s next president. The former Olympic champion, 49, will be the youngest candidate at the election, due to take place in Buenos Aires on September 10. Bubka – who has experience with the Olympic…
