Category: 7. Sports

(Adds detail, quotes) * Wild gives Russia gold * Wife Zavarzina wins bronze * Kummer takes women’s gold By Nick Mulvenney ROSA KHUTOR, Russia, Feb 19 (Reuters) – American-born Vic Wild won the men’s parallel giant slalom gold medal for Russia on…

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian figure skating superstar Yevgeny Plushenko said on Wednesday he will not compete for the gold medal in the men’s competition at the Sochi Olympic Games after he came in second in the national championships. Plushenko,…

Burger King Russia posted a promotion on social media Tuesday offering Russian women Whoppers and cash for getting pregnant by World Cup players.

The post has since been removed, but Deadspin grabbed a screenshot and translation of the promotion…

By Michael Hann LONDON (Reuters) – British diver Tom Daley is not concerned about competing in Russia despite the country’s anti-gay stance and has no plans to make a political protest ahead of next year’s World Aquatic Championships in…

The FBI has questioned Russian MMA fighter Fedor Emelianenko, a fighter with connections to President Donald Trump, Russian president Vladimir Putin, and Trump’s attorney Michael…

TORONTO – I’ve still never forgiven Evgeni Nabokov.

Six years before their showdown at the World Cup of Hockey on Saturday night in Toronto, Russia and Canada had a more critical one in Vancouver, at the 2010…

Russian athletes will not appear under their national flag at the next two Olympic Games, and the nation’s soccer team will be ineligible for the 2022 World…

Add the NBA to the ever-growing list of sports leagues and organizations turning their backs on Russia amid the country’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.

The league announced Wednesday that it is suspending all business activities in Russia,…

Inside her metal courtroom cage, a solemn, stone-faced Brittney…

WNBA stars for years have spent their offseasons playing in Russian pro leagues, lured by seven-figure paydays that trump their salaries back home.

No more.

With Brittney Griner detained in a Russian prison and the war in Ukraine still raging, WNBA…