Eight-time world boxing champion Manny Pacquiao is pushing for the “permanent” implementation of the Olympic truce, as he ...

After Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 with assistance from neighboring Belarus, the IOC under its outgoing president, Thomas ...

Real-world politics was present last time in Buenos Aires, when current candidates Juan Antonio Samaranch and Kirsty Coventry, a new member then, also were voters. So was Prince Feisal's sister ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Russian President Vladimir Putin was quick to send congratulations to the newly elected leader of the International Olympic Committee, Kirsty Coventry, of Zimbabwe, as Moscow ...

Russia was then a more trusted IOC partner, before it tainted those games with a state-backed doping scheme and broke the United Nations-backed Olympic Truce for Sochi with the conflict in Ukraine.

The Olympic Truce - introduced by a UN resolution - is well-intentioned but with no consequences for breaking it. Russia has violated it by invading Georgia (2008), Crimea (2014) and Ukraine fully ...

GENEVA (AP) — The IOC presidential election on Thursday takes place in a political climate that seems a world away from the last contested Olympic leadership vote in 2013. “There is a very ...

“Nothing can go wrong,” he said drily, referring to the 144th Session. Bach’s more serious message was about the original Olympic Truce (the ekecheiria), how warring nations laid down arms for just ...

The geopolitical world has its own common house — the United Nations — which the IOC has closely aligned with during Bach’s 12-year presidency, including declaring that Russia breached the Olympic ...

Trump’s talks with Russia could pave the way for the IOC to readmit them to the Olympics If Trump can claim to have brokered peace in Ukraine, and with swathes of the world still beholden to ...

Elevated football figures” are reportedly willing to have Russia reinstated “tomorrow,” according to the outlet Read Full ...