Olympics boss Kirsty Coventry passionately defended International Olympic Committee (IOC) rules on Friday which led to the controversial ban on Ukrainian Vladyslav Heraskevych competing in the skeleton at the Winter Games.

International Olympic Committee president Kirsty Coventry issued a heartfelt message to Lindsey Vonn following her crash at the Winter Olympics on Sunday.

By Karolos Grohmann MILAN, Feb 13 (Reuters) - The International Olympic Committee would be open to reviewing guidelines governing the rights of athletes to freely express themselves at the Winter Games but the rules have been embraced by competitors,

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy blasted the IOC on Thursday after one of the country's athletes was disqualified over his helmet tribue.

The president of the International Olympic Committee is sending love to Savannah Guthrie, who backed out of covering the 2026 Winter Olympics amid the search for her mother, Nancy Guthrie. “I do want to say that our hearts and all of our thoughts and prayers are with Savannah,

Like, for example, when the NHL social media account shared Macklin Celebrini's first Team Canada goal of the Olympics by recreating it in Microsoft Paint. It's actually some incredible work:

Designer Stella Jean forced to paint over image of revolutionary on ski suits after being told it breached rules

Russia is banned from Olympic competition by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The ban took effect in 2022, after the Winter Olympics in Beijing, and has continued through the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris and now the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan. In addition to Russia, Belarus is also banned from Olympic competition.