Russia would have been bronze medal favorites at the Olympics and the team most likely to upset Canada or the United States.

There is no Russian hockey team at the 2026 Winter Olympics. From an on-ice perspective, it's the only negative of this year's return to best-on-best and having NHL players at the Olympics for the first time since 2014. Russia would've had one of the best teams in the tournament.

Former Russian figure skating coach Eteri Tutberidze returned to the Olympics at Milan Cortina despite controversy over Kamila Valieva's doping scandal at the 2022 Beijing Games.

Eteri Tutberidze is once again inside the Winter Olympics bubble, a reality that isn't sitting well with WADA president Witold Bańka.

ROME (AP) — Italy has foiled a series of cyberattacks targeting some of its foreign ministry offices, including one in Washington, as well as Winter Olympics websites and hotels in Cortina d’Ampezzo,