CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Israel’s four-man bobsled didn’t make it to the last day of the Milan Cortina Olympics because the nation's officials said they decided to pull the sled out of the competition after taking issue with how the team wanted to change its lineup and allow an alternate to participate.

By bnm Gulf bureau Israel's Olympic Committee has withdrawn its four-man bobsleigh team from the 2026 Winter Games after an athlete falsely claimed to be ill in order to allow a substitute to race in his place,

After scrappy group fought for years for a spot on the Olympic stage, its legacy is tainted by disqualification, and the whole delegation's accomplishments at the Games have been swallowed up The post Israel limps away from Winter Olympics overshadowed by bobsleigh team’s drama appeared first on The Times of Israel.

The disqualification follows a series of tense moments for the Israeli delegation at the Milan-Cortina games.

A team taking part in the 2026 Winter Olympic Games has reportedly been disqualified by their own country. On Sunday, the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympic Games will come to a close. Gold medals are still on offer, with events such as curling, skiing, ice hockey, and bobsleigh all taking place on the final day of the Games.

Switzerland’s public broadcaster has taken down a Winter Olympics clip online after a journalist’s commentary during an Israeli bobsled team’s run was criticized.

Team tried to let Ward Fawarseh, an alternate, compete by faking another member's medical exam, Olympic Committee of Israel says, calling behavior 'against fair and sportsmanlike conduct' The post Israel disqualifies its own Olympic bobsleigh team for lying to officials appeared first on The Times of Israel.

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Israeli Olympic bosses have officially complained to a Swiss broadcaster and demanded a probe into whether a commentator should continue working at the Winter Games after he criticized an Israeli bob athlete.

The scale of popular participation in pro-Palestine campaigns signals a structural change: the issue can no longer be contained by diplomatic language or public relations campaigns.

A Swiss commentator has accused a member of the Israeli bobsleigh team of supporting “genocide in Gaza” and questioned the presence at the Winter Games of Israeli athletes who support the war.