International Olympic Committee

FINA members voted to restrict transgender women from elite swimming competitions on Sunday.

The International Olympic Committee released recommendations Monday to ban Russian and Belarusian athletes from all sport competitions. FIFA followed shortly after with a ban on Russian teams, effectively withdrawing Russia from the World Cup.

In a sweeping move to isolate and condemn Russia after invading Ukraine, the International Olympic Committee urged sports bodies on Monday to exclude the country’s athletes and officials from international events.

The International Olympic Committee has urged sports bodies to cancel or move all events they plan to hold in Russia and Belarus and stop using the countries’ flags and national anthems

The IOC no longer runs a wide-open bidding process, instead selecting cities in which it has interest — and vice versa.

The AP has learned IOC President Thomas Bach offered U.S. figure skaters Olympic torches as holdover gifts while they await a resolution of the Russian doping case preventing them from receiving their teams event medals

U.S.-born athletes have taken centerstage at the Winter Olympics in Beijing — for the host country, that is, generating scrutiny of nationality switching

The winners in the team figure skating competition at the Beijing Olympics still have not received their medals two days later because of what the IOC says are “legal issues.”

Two countries are making their Winter Olympics debut

Some fans will likely attend events at the 2022 Winter Olympics, but it will be far from full capacity.

Like any iconic Olympic venue, the National Speed Skating Oval has a nickname. Characterized by its ribbed, wavy structure, the “Ice Ribbon” is the only new venue Beijing built for the Winter Olympics. All other venues were repurposed from the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics.

If greenhouse gas emissions stay high, only one of 21 former host cities will be a reliable site for the winter games by the end of the century, according to a new study.

The Beijing Winter Olympics open in just under two months and are now the target of a diplomatic boycott by the United States with others likely to follow

White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed Monday that the U.S. will not send any diplomatic or official representation to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games in protest of China’s human rights abuses.

The IOC says Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai has taken part in a 30-minute video call from Beijing with Olympic officials and told them she was safe and well.

The International Olympic Committee’s medical chief said Thursday that the issue of transgender athletes’ participation in Olympic competition is complex and the IOC is still working on a framework for future eligibility.

Each of the Olympians gathering in Japan this summer for the Tokyo Games will add to the long history of the Olympics, which have been played every four years since 1896 (except 1916 due to World War I, 1940 and 1944 due to World War II and 2020 due to COVID-19). Tokyo has hosted the Olympics once before in 1964….

The United States dominates in terms of gold medals with over 1,060 of them won since the first game in Athens, but could the nation’s success at the Olympics be based around sending more athletes than their competitors?

The IOC has finally relented to let Olympic athletes make gestures of protest in their field of play at the Tokyo Games

According to the Council on Foreign Relations, every city hosting the Olympics since 1960 incurred cost overruns, sometimes by tens of billions of dollars.