There are athletes with Russian and Belarussian passports competing at the Olympics as "Individual Neutral Athletes," if they meet some conditions.

BBC Sport finds evidence raising questions over the neutral eligibility of four Russian athletes.

Thirteen athletes from Russia will compete in Italy, but they will do so without flags, anthems or a place in the medal standings.

Every time Nikita Filippov races, it's an uphill struggle. At the Olympics, even more so. The 23-year-old from Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka peninsula is a medal contender in the rugged new Olympic sport of ski mountaineering.

A Winter Olympian has been banned from wearing an anti-Russia helmet with images of Ukraine war victims. Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych was told by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) he could not compete wearing the controversial helmet.

Nearly four years after Vladimir Putin launched Europe’s deadliest war since World War II, Russia remains banned by the IOC although individual Russians can compete in the Olympics as

After a chaotic winter, a handful of Russian and Belarusian athletes were allowed pathways to qualify for Milan Cortina.

THE IOC have “begged” Vladyslav Heraskevych not to wear his ‘helmet of memory’ in skeleton competition – otherwise he could be booted out of the Olympics. Heraskevych, the Ukrainian flag bearer at

Of course while Russia remain excluded, they will continue to take the high road, albeit with a fairly transparent sideways glance. The Olympics have “lost their significance as a global competition for the best and strongest” according to Russian politician Vitaly Milonov last month, without a hint of irony.

At the 1980 Winter Games in Lake Placid, New York, that superpower rivalry was on full display on the ice. The U.S. men’s ice hockey team — made up largely of college players and amateurs — faced off against the Soviet squad, a battle-hardened, gold medal-winning machine. The Americans weren’t supposed to stand a chance.