Yelena Isinbayeva

Rio Olympics 2016: Yelena Isinbayeva's comments unfortunate, say pole vault athletes

Greece's Ekaterini Stefanidi hit back at banned Russian star Yelena Isinbayeva on Friday after striking Olympic pole vault gold.

Rio Olympics 2016: Pole vault star Yelena Isinbayeva announces retirement

Barred from competing at the Rio Olympics 2016, Russia's double Olympic champion Yelena Isinbayeva announced her retirement on Friday, and said whoever won the women's pole vault in her absence would not have achieved a proper gold medal.

Rio Olympics 2016: Saina Nehwal fails to qualify as one of the four athlete member for IOC after finishing 6th

Saina Nehwal has failed to get elected as one of the four athlete members of the IOC as she finished sixth in the race to become a member of Athletics Commission of the global governing body of sport.

Humans of Olympics: Meet Ekaterina Mukhlynina, a Russian journalist in Rio

Going from news reporter to newsmaker isn’t fun. Mukhlynina isn't happy about how the Russian Olympics doping scandal has been handled by the world's sports governing bodies

Rio 2016: Russia bids to avoid ban as IOC reports new test failures

Russia on Friday made a last-ditch bid to avoid a blanket ban at the Rio Games over state-run doping as a fresh batch of drug test failures from Beijing 2008 and London 2012 rocked the Olympics.

Olympics 2016: Russia face calls for a complete Rio ban after track and field squad loses appeal

Russia was facing calls to be kicked out of the Olympics on Thursday after their highly-regarded track and field squad lost their appeal over being banned from Rio for state-sponsored doping.

Rio 2016: Olympic movement faces divide ahead of report on Russia's doping scandal

The Olympic movement faces division in a critical week ahead of the Rio Games with a report set to be released on whether Russia manipulated doping samples.

Olympics 2016: Darya Klishina only Russian athlete to be cleared to compete as a neutral

US-based long jumper Darya Klishina became the first Russian athlete on Sunday to be cleared to compete at the Rio Olympics.

Russia publish list of 68 athletes seeking permission to compete at Rio Olympics

Russia's athletics federation on Tuesday published a list of the 68 athletes who have formally requested to be allowed to compete at the Rio Olympics following a decision to suspend the track and field team.

Rio 2016: Russia's ban in Olympics is political, says Svetlana Kuznetsova

Calling the decision unfair to ban Russia's track and field athletes from Rio Olympics tennis player Svetlana Kuznetsova blamed politics for it.