January 24, 2018 – With only two weeks until the Games, top Russian athletes, xc skier Sergey Ustiugov and biathlete Anton Shipulin have been banned from the PyeongChang Olympic Games reports Inside the Games. Viktor Ahn, a South Korean-born Russian speed-skater, with a record six Olympic golds was also banned.

Ustiugov won the Tour de Ski in 2016 and picked up two golds at the 2017 Nordic Worlds while Shipulin won relay bronze at Vancouver 2010, gold at Sochi 2014 and gold at the 2017 Biathlon Worlds. According to the report all three are among 111 athletes excluded by the IOC after the ROC drew up a 500-athlete shortlist for consideration for Pyeongchang 2018 selection. Read more here.