The world Kirsty Coventry walks into Monday as the International Olympic Committee’s first female and first African president ...

Still, Coventry inherits an IOC with a solid reputation and finances after a widely praised 2024 Paris Olympics ... invasion of Ukraine. Even neutral status for individual Russians to compete ...

He said that while a final decision had not been made, the belief was that the IOC would continue to ... were able to compete in the Paris Olympics as neutral athletes following a vetting process.

And yet his organization banned Russian and Belarusian athletes from the 2024 Paris Summer Games and the upcoming Winter Olympics ... the IOC upheld its decision that — in the wake of Russia ...

Neither the IOC nor the IIHF have released official decisions ... Paris Olympics, 32 individual Russian and Belarusian athletes were allowed to participate under the title “Individual Neutral ...

Russian teams remain banned from the 2026 Winter Olympics following previous sanctions imposed due to the 2022 Ukraine invasion, according to an announcement from the International Olympic Committee.

The International Olympic ... place,” the IOC said in a statement on Tuesday, as reported by Reuters. “It is based on the fact that, by definition, a group of Individual Neutral Athletes ...

According to Reuters, the IOC confirmed ... in the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris, after passing a strict evaluation process. They participated under neutral status, without officially ...