...insisting on preserving his country’s sovereignty. Putin attends a training session with the Russian national judo team during a break at the Sochi summit with Lukashenko. Picture: APSource:AP PUTIN’S PLAN President Vladimir Putin has a problem. He cannot maintain his grip over Russia...

...medal in the snowboard halfpipe, is as deeply satisfying a story as you will find at these Winter Games. “It was a deja vu situation to the Sochi Olympics [where White finished fourth after starting as overwhelming favourite],” he said after Wednesday’s victory. “I’m so thankful that I...

Kim qualified for the Sochi Games and would have been the favorite if not for one problemPYEONGCHANG, South Korea – American Chloe Kim, the wunderkind halfpipe snowboarder who has been the dominant figure in her sport as a teenager, blighted her competition on the way to Olympic gold Tuesday morning...

...Olympics in Pyeongchang Olympic participation from the North would mark a return to the Winter Games after the reclusive state sat out the Sochi 2014 Games. North Korea has participated in every Summer Games since 1972, except the 1984 Los Angeles and 1988 Seoul Games, which it...

...athletes' samples, meanwhile, resulted in a host of retrospective bans and stripping of medals, costing the country its position at the top of the Sochi 2014 medal table. Twenty five Russians have now been banned in the last month. And then, last week, another IOC commission, led by Swiss...

...show after Matt Lauer’s firing. Picture: AP/Craig RuttleSource:AP The misconduct reportedly started when Lauer and a fellow employee were at the Sochi Olympics in 2014 and continued when they returned to New York. Mr Lack said it was the first complaint lodged against Lauer in his 20 years at...

...— hosting NBC's live Olympic broadcasts — was the source of his downfall, with several reports pointing to an incident at the Sochi 2014 Winter Games. Although it's not yet clear when NBC first became aware of the allegations, it seems that multiple media...

...of doped athletes for at least half a decade. © Valentin Flauraud / Reuters The system was purportedly used even at major events, including the Sochi Olympics in 2014, and was allegedly approved at a ministerial level. The results meant that more than a quarter of Russia’s Olympic team –...

...Russian Olympics athletes - this is a flagrant violation of human rights." Why was Russia banned? Russia won 80 medals, including 30 gold, at the Sochi 2014 Winter Paralympics - the most in a single Winter Paralympics Richard McLaren, a Canadian law professor, published a Wada independent...

...five of which are summer sports, including some governed by the IPC. The IPC has also found evidence that samples were swapped during the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Games and it planned to reanalyse every Russian sample from Sochi. The IPC allowed the Russian Paralympic Committee to present...

...and won’t be the last, Olympics that has gone off the rails. Russia spent $51 billion on the 2014 Winter Games with the stated goal of promoting the Sochi area as a vacation destination – with both world-class skiing and a warm, tropical (it boasts palm trees) waterfront along the Black Sea. ...