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.

Ukraine has backed a call for a ceasefire in the war with Russia during the Winter Olympics after Italy and Pope Leo urged world leaders to use the Milano Cortina games to further peace.

In Milan this week, Olympics officials signaled a willingness to ease years of restrictions imposed on the country over its state-backed doping program and invasion of Ukraine.

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Setting the opening ceremony for the 2026 Winter Olympics both in Milan and Cortina posed a challenge but also a thematic opportunity. For totally logical reasons, this year’s Winter Olympics in Italy is bucking the trend of a single host city and splitting its sporting events between two main locations,

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