The first Soviet athletes took part in the Olympic Games in Helsinki, Finland, in 1952. The Soviet Olympic team which comprised 295 athletes at that time was second in the overall standings.

Ever an optimist and a peacemaker, Lozansky advocates “resetting the clock with Russia.” ...

In the Soviet Union, sports were tightly controlled by the government and were used as a form of nationalist propaganda. Many supposedly amateur athletes in the Soviet Union were in fact state ...

Why the decline? Sure, you could accuse the Soviet athletes of doping, though there's no evidence either participated. Still, pure strength is seen as relatively unimportant in a sport that ...

to meet with anyone to negotiate until the last minute” the participation of athletes and teams from the former Soviet republics. The book mentions discreet interventions by former members of ...

A sports spectator has died after a university athlete threw a hammer out of bounds at a field and track event in Colorado, ...