Russian wrestlers who were given permission to participate in this summer's Olympic Games have rejected the invitation, the Russian Wrestling Federation said Saturday. After initially being barred ...

Ten Russian wrestlers who were invited to compete at the Paris Olympics as neutral athletes will not take part after some of the leading wrestlers were left off the invitation list, the Russian ...

The Russian wrestling federation objected to the International Olympic Committee’s choice of which wrestlers to invite, saying the bouts would be incomplete without Russian athletes and that ...

MOSCOW, July 6. /TASS/. All Russian wrestlers, who received invitations from the International Olympic Committee to compete at the Paris Games, rejected them, a source in the Russian Wrestling ...

For the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, athletes from Russia and Belarus can compete but not under the countries' flags due to their involvement related to the war in Ukraine. They compete under AIN ...

Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat on Thursday lost her appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) after her disqualification from the women's 50kg final at the Paris Olympics for being overweight.

MOSCOW, July 13. /TASS/. Russian wrestler Shamil Mamedov, who was qualified by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for the Games in Paris, has refused to participate in them, the Russian ...

tied the record for most-ever gold medals in wrestling when they each won their third Olympic title. Russia led all countries in medals for the third Olympics in a row, bringing home six of the 14 ...

The Paris Olympics has thrown the issue of Russia and the Russian Olympic Committee back into the spotlight. In short, yes Russia is banned from competing at the Olympics. The International ...

Russia's wrestling team chose to boycott the Paris 2024 Olympics in response to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) deciding to only allow a select few of its wrestlers to compete.

In Olympic wrestling matches, technical points are awarded as follows. Note that penalty points are added to the opposing wrestler's score, rather than subtracted from the offending wrestler's total.