Sochi Olympics

Evgeny Ustyugov has been suspended for doping for a second time.

The trio won silver in the 4x6 kilometre relay biathlon at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, before they were disqualified and their result annulled in 2017.

One person died -- apparently of a heart attack -- and 18 people sought medical help when a plane skidded off a runway in Russia's Olympic city of Sochi, slid into a river and caught fire during landing early Saturday, officials said.

Ten died in hospital after medics fought to save his life following the attack in which he lost three litres of blood.

PM Modi is flying in only for a day for this summit at the "invitation of Mr Putin" and it comes close on the heels of the unique "informal summit" held between India and China recently in Wuhan. This is a new way Mr Modi is handling foreign policy through a deeply personalised touch

Russia's Vladimir Putin in 2014 ordered a passenger aircraft which was reported to be carrying a bomb and targeting the opening of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi to be downed, the president said in a film shown on Sunday.

In her last six Olympic races, short-track speed skater Elise Christie has crashed out or been disqualified six times.

Fourcade won two golds at the 2014 Sochi Olympics and with his tally of four now holds the record for the most Winter Olympic gold medals won by a Frenchman.

Around 3,000 competitors will take part in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, from February 9-25.

Alexander Zubkov, a hero in Russia after winning both the two-man and four-man bob in the Russian Black Sea resort, was disqualified and his results struck off.

Olympic figure skating team gold medallist Yulia Lipnitskaya has decided to retire after undergoing treatment for anorexia and will not defend her title at next year's Pyeongchang Games, her mother told TASS state news agency on Monday.

Investigator Richard McLaren said in a new report for the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) this month that more than 1,000 Russian athletes in some 30 sports took part in a plan for Moscow sports ministry officials to use banned drugs at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, the 2012 London Summer Games and other global events.

Troubling as the details of the McLaren Report were, a news item out of Russia earlier this week was equally so.

Russia denied it was running any state-sponsored doping schemes after fresh revelations from the McLaren report on Friday of an "institutional conspiracy" by Moscow to cheat.

Doping investigator Richard McLaren said in his new report that he had confirmed the switching of samples at the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014

Evgeny Ustyugov has been suspended for doping for a second time.

The trio won silver in the 4x6 kilometre relay biathlon at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, before they were disqualified and their result annulled in 2017.

One person died -- apparently of a heart attack -- and 18 people sought medical help when a plane skidded off a runway in Russia's Olympic city of Sochi, slid into a river and caught fire during landing early Saturday, officials said.

Ten died in hospital after medics fought to save his life following the attack in which he lost three litres of blood.

PM Modi is flying in only for a day for this summit at the "invitation of Mr Putin" and it comes close on the heels of the unique "informal summit" held between India and China recently in Wuhan. This is a new way Mr Modi is handling foreign policy through a deeply personalised touch

Russia's Vladimir Putin in 2014 ordered a passenger aircraft which was reported to be carrying a bomb and targeting the opening of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi to be downed, the president said in a film shown on Sunday.

In her last six Olympic races, short-track speed skater Elise Christie has crashed out or been disqualified six times.

Fourcade won two golds at the 2014 Sochi Olympics and with his tally of four now holds the record for the most Winter Olympic gold medals won by a Frenchman.

Around 3,000 competitors will take part in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, from February 9-25.

Alexander Zubkov, a hero in Russia after winning both the two-man and four-man bob in the Russian Black Sea resort, was disqualified and his results struck off.

Olympic figure skating team gold medallist Yulia Lipnitskaya has decided to retire after undergoing treatment for anorexia and will not defend her title at next year's Pyeongchang Games, her mother told TASS state news agency on Monday.

Investigator Richard McLaren said in a new report for the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) this month that more than 1,000 Russian athletes in some 30 sports took part in a plan for Moscow sports ministry officials to use banned drugs at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, the 2012 London Summer Games and other global events.

Troubling as the details of the McLaren Report were, a news item out of Russia earlier this week was equally so.

Russia denied it was running any state-sponsored doping schemes after fresh revelations from the McLaren report on Friday of an "institutional conspiracy" by Moscow to cheat.

Doping investigator Richard McLaren said in his new report that he had confirmed the switching of samples at the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014