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Comment on this storyCommentThe tap of two tennis rackets at the end of a U.S. Open women’s singles match Thursday was over in seconds. But for a sport in which handshakes are a valued post-match tradition, the exchange highlighted the…

Explaining its stance, Wimbledon said it didn't want to "benefit the propaganda machine of the Russian regime.""I think it's very unfair (on) my Russian tennis mates, my colleagues," Nadal said in a press conference on Sunday ahead of…

The decision comes less than a day after the IPC initially permitted athletes from both countries to compete as neutrals under the Paralympic flag and the Paralympic anthem.IPC President Andrew Parsons said on Wednesday that Russian…

Olga Kovalkova, a confidant of the main Belarusian opposition candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, was removed from the country on Saturday night, according to a statement from the organization.The council is a body aimed at coordinating a…