International Olympic Committee

FINA members voted to restrict transgender women from elite swimming competitions on Sunday.

The International Olympic Committee released recommendations Monday to ban Russian and Belarusian athletes from all sport competitions. FIFA followed shortly after with a ban on Russian teams, effectively withdrawing Russia from the World Cup.

In a sweeping move to isolate and condemn Russia after invading Ukraine, the International Olympic Committee urged sports bodies on Monday to exclude the country’s athletes and officials from international events.

The International Olympic Committee has urged sports bodies to cancel or move all events they plan to hold in Russia and Belarus and stop using the countries’ flags and national anthems

The IOC no longer runs a wide-open bidding process, instead selecting cities in which it has interest — and vice versa.

The AP has learned IOC President Thomas Bach offered U.S. figure skaters Olympic torches as holdover gifts while they await a resolution of the Russian doping case preventing them from receiving their teams event medals

U.S.-born athletes have taken centerstage at the Winter Olympics in Beijing — for the host country, that is, generating scrutiny of nationality switching

The winners in the team figure skating competition at the Beijing Olympics still have not received their medals two days later because of what the IOC says are “legal issues.”

Two countries are making their Winter Olympics debut

Some fans will likely attend events at the 2022 Winter Olympics, but it will be far from full capacity.

Like any iconic Olympic venue, the National Speed Skating Oval has a nickname. Characterized by its ribbed, wavy structure, the “Ice Ribbon” is the only new venue Beijing built for the Winter Olympics. All other venues were repurposed from the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics.

If greenhouse gas emissions stay high, only one of 21 former host cities will be a reliable site for the winter games by the end of the century, according to a new study.

The Beijing Winter Olympics open in just under two months and are now the target of a diplomatic boycott by the United States with others likely to follow

White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed Monday that the U.S. will not send any diplomatic or official representation to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games in protest of China’s human rights abuses.