Tag: Russian track and field
IOC Gives Conditions Required for Russian Athletes to Compete in Rio
The IOC Executive Board (EB) has today further studied the question of the participation of Russian athletes in the Olympic Games Rio 2016. In its...
Nyet for Russian Track and Field Team at Rio
Should Russia be tossed from the Rio Olympics because of a sophisticated drug doping scheme? Would that be the end of a sports sanctioned...
WADA may Call for Total Russian Ban at Rio 2016 if Sochi 2014 Allegations...
A blanket ban on Russian competitors taking part at this year's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro could be demanded by the World Anti-Doping...
Banning the Cheats, Identifying the Innocent
The priority for the International Olympic Committee, led by President Thomas Bach, is, optimistically, to clear the path for exclusively clean athletes to compete in Rio’s...
David Owen: Cold War II – a Sequel that Los Angeles, Like the Rest...
Throughout my time covering the Olympic Movement - about 15 years - we have tended to take a pretty dim view of the boycott-marred...
