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.” ...

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

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 ...

Since the Atlanta 1996 Games when former Soviet countries began competing as individual nations, athletes from Russia and Belarus have twirled, pirouetted and tumbled their way to Olympic dominance in ...

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 ...

Not just American athletes, either. Other countries joined the United States in boycotting the Summer Games in Moscow, including Canada and Japan, and the Soviet Union and much of the Eastern bloc ...