Sochi Olympic Games

PM Modi is flying in only for a day for this summit at the "invitation of Mr Putin" and it comes close on the heels of the unique "informal summit" held between India and China recently in Wuhan. This is a new way Mr Modi is handling foreign policy through a deeply personalised touch

Russia's Vladimir Putin in 2014 ordered a passenger aircraft which was reported to be carrying a bomb and targeting the opening of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi to be downed, the president said in a film shown on Sunday.

In her last six Olympic races, short-track speed skater Elise Christie has crashed out or been disqualified six times.

Olympic figure skating team gold medallist Yulia Lipnitskaya has decided to retire after undergoing treatment for anorexia and will not defend her title at next year's Pyeongchang Games, her mother told TASS state news agency on Monday.

Investigator Richard McLaren said in a new report for the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) this month that more than 1,000 Russian athletes in some 30 sports took part in a plan for Moscow sports ministry officials to use banned drugs at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, the 2012 London Summer Games and other global events.

The Independent Commission of World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), released a July 18 report on the results of a probe into the accusations of doping and manipulation of tests by Russian athletes and officials at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games

The IOC has decided against a total ban on Russian athletes for the Rio Olympics and has decided that any Russian athlete wanting to go to the games will have to prove that he or she was not involved in doping

At least 15 Russian medal winning athletes at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics were part of a state-run doping program, according to a report in the New York Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin called today for international measures to prevent politics from spilling over into sport as the West continues to snub Moscow over the Ukraine crisis.

The anti-doping in the first half of 2014 had got its fair share in the limelight when six offenders were exposed in Sochi Winter Olympic Games in February.

Viswanathan Anand said the officials in the world body FIDE were trying to include chess in the Olympic Games but he did not know what the current status of this move was.

Flushed with pride after a spectacular showing at the costliest Olympics ever, Russia celebrated 17 days of sport-driven global unity tonight with a farewell show that hands off the Winter Games to their next host, Pyeongchang in South Korea.

Speaking to reporters hours before the Games closing ceremony, Thomas Bach, who presided over his first Olympics after taking over as International Olympic Committee chief last September, said Russian government support and President Vladimir Putin's personal involvement had contributed to the success.

The price tag of the Winter Olympics this time was more than USD 50 billion, making Sochi the most expensive Games in history, and the project bore the hallmark of the Russian strongman from even before the bid in 2007.

The sheer cost, size and scale of the Sochi Olympics has outstripped anything done before. The question for future Winter Games is clear: Can anyone - should anyone - try to top that?

PM Modi is flying in only for a day for this summit at the "invitation of Mr Putin" and it comes close on the heels of the unique "informal summit" held between India and China recently in Wuhan. This is a new way Mr Modi is handling foreign policy through a deeply personalised touch

Russia's Vladimir Putin in 2014 ordered a passenger aircraft which was reported to be carrying a bomb and targeting the opening of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi to be downed, the president said in a film shown on Sunday.

In her last six Olympic races, short-track speed skater Elise Christie has crashed out or been disqualified six times.

Olympic figure skating team gold medallist Yulia Lipnitskaya has decided to retire after undergoing treatment for anorexia and will not defend her title at next year's Pyeongchang Games, her mother told TASS state news agency on Monday.

Investigator Richard McLaren said in a new report for the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) this month that more than 1,000 Russian athletes in some 30 sports took part in a plan for Moscow sports ministry officials to use banned drugs at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, the 2012 London Summer Games and other global events.

The Independent Commission of World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), released a July 18 report on the results of a probe into the accusations of doping and manipulation of tests by Russian athletes and officials at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games

The IOC has decided against a total ban on Russian athletes for the Rio Olympics and has decided that any Russian athlete wanting to go to the games will have to prove that he or she was not involved in doping

At least 15 Russian medal winning athletes at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics were part of a state-run doping program, according to a report in the New York Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin called today for international measures to prevent politics from spilling over into sport as the West continues to snub Moscow over the Ukraine crisis.

The anti-doping in the first half of 2014 had got its fair share in the limelight when six offenders were exposed in Sochi Winter Olympic Games in February.

Viswanathan Anand said the officials in the world body FIDE were trying to include chess in the Olympic Games but he did not know what the current status of this move was.

Flushed with pride after a spectacular showing at the costliest Olympics ever, Russia celebrated 17 days of sport-driven global unity tonight with a farewell show that hands off the Winter Games to their next host, Pyeongchang in South Korea.

Speaking to reporters hours before the Games closing ceremony, Thomas Bach, who presided over his first Olympics after taking over as International Olympic Committee chief last September, said Russian government support and President Vladimir Putin's personal involvement had contributed to the success.

The price tag of the Winter Olympics this time was more than USD 50 billion, making Sochi the most expensive Games in history, and the project bore the hallmark of the Russian strongman from even before the bid in 2007.

The sheer cost, size and scale of the Sochi Olympics has outstripped anything done before. The question for future Winter Games is clear: Can anyone - should anyone - try to top that?