<Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> The most popular sport in Russia is football According to Yandex search analysis results rating of the most popular sports among Russians: "Football topped the list of the most popular sports in Russia" with 5 to 10 million requests . Ice hockey came in second with handball, basketball, boxing, auto racing, volleyball, athletics, tennis and chess rounding out the top ten rankings . Other popular sports include bandy, biathlon, figure skating, weightlifting, gymnastics, wrestling, martial arts, rugby union, and skiing . </P> <P> The Soviet Union (USSR) competed in the Olympic Games for the first time at the 1952 Summer Olympics . Soviet and later Russian athletes never finished below fourth place in the number of gold and total medals collected at the Summer Olympics in which they competed . Russia has the most medals stripped for doping violations (51), the most of any country, four times the number of the runner - up, and nearly a third of the global total . Russian team has been partially banned from the 2016 Rio Olympics and might be made subject to a blanket ban from the 2018 Winter Olympics due to a serious doping scandal . On 5 December 2017 the IOC announced that Russia is banned with immediate effect . Certain Russian athletes will be allowed to participate at the Olympics under a neutral flag . </P>

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